Happy updates

[hrymfaxe]

Cement company has finally given me a proper contract! With no set end date and a decent raise too. :D :D So I'll be building cement plants around the world for a while yet.

I'm also in a really good place creatively right now. We've moved my art desk to a room that I have pretty much to myself, which has meant I use it a lot more. And when we were in Berlin I bought a lot of sketchbooks, which I have used a lot more than I thought I would. I bought one with tan paper, and I wish I had gotten a whole lot more of those! I'm trying to not care if some of the drawings in there are less than stellar - it is a sketchbook after all, but I have still had to start drawing from the middle of the books, because the first page is too much pressure...

Pulped is running a summer camp, and that came at just the right time for me it seems. Below the cut are the entries I have made so far for those of you who haven't seen elsewhere:



No-brainer - black and white ink in my tan sketchbook:



Mind blown - watercolor on 300 mgs hotpress paper (45x61 cm):



Phantom esaphogealitch - when a pill gets stuck in your throat and you can still feel it after it goes down - ink and watercolor in (another new) moleskine sketchbook (and thank you to alias_amy for making up the word and lending it to me):

Comments

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are fantastic! The last one makes me a little squidgey though.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yes me too. :P I just couldn't not do it, once I saw that word.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

No doubt! That word was perfect!

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Wow! Those are all amazing. You get better all the time! Such fantastic work. I love the interrelationship between medium and style--in these cases the different textures and colors and the end results.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, Oshun. :) It's great to know that I am improving, and right now I am playing with so many different things: ink, watercolor and acrylics. :D It's a lot of fun to explore them all.

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Oooh congrats on the contract! :)

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Such a relief. :D

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I love the first one!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I like that one too. :D

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the contract! It is always SO nice to have more certainty about the future, isn't it?

By the way, if we were face-to-face, I'd be asking to rub your belly in hopes of catching the magic. ;)

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

It really is! Especially since Mr. Faxe quit his job in January, and even though we have good unemployment security, it wouldn't be super nice to be on it both of us! He has found another job though, so come September we will both be salary slaves. ;)

LOL, if I could I would parcel it out and send it in little care packages. :D