Art 19

Been all over the place tonight, groovin good one moment, nearly in tears the next. Bleh.

Anyway, first of all, I've just (only a couple minutes ago) stumbled upon what looks like a very interesting/ wonderful/ cool/ fancy sculpture thing, by Amanda Stuart. It's a bunch of dogs running through the grass.
Prompted by a (thrash metal) song, I googled 'mongrel country', and found this installation thing. Stolen pics:

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Awesome, yeah? :D I'm sort of naturally a cat person, but I love dogs too. They're so joyous. Mongrel Country, by the way, is a band from Perth, Western Australia. A song of theirs called Long Pig appears on a mental-health-related sort of promotional cd called What If We Talked About Music The Same Way We Talk About Mental Illness? Has some okay music on it, and a few quite good songs.

Anyway! I did say I was going to post the rest of the SL shape pics in the 'next' post (which is this post), but now I wanna talk about a painting I did tonight instead. Yay, paint.
Long long ago I had some fun with impasto gel and acrylics, meaning to paint some sort of... I think it was Morgana, and an ape wearing a crown and a leash (actually, that still sounds like a pretty good idea).
Anyway, I got as far as the background and lost interest. So I've had this heavily-impasto'd canvas laying around for a couple years, and tonight I finally decided to put something on it. I was loosely inspired by tiny elephant genius, a short wondefully cute and beautiful comic by Buttersafe, so the painting is of a tiny elephant observing a mobius strip. I'm thinking very tentatively about entering into a survey thing, so I don't want to upload any pics of it in case it gets selected.
First I had to make a tiny elephant out of origami, to use as a model. Then, after the painting was finished, there was lot of tinted impasto gel left, so I'm coating the origami model with impasto.

Still still cutting the cut-outs for the cryptomnesia piece. About half-way through. It's possible I won't end up doing anything with 'em after all, but that's okay.