It's been a busy week! I have been energized by roller skating and being angry.
I am working on a new piece now that I will post when it is all finished. I've been neglecting my reading, but Monát sent me a book for my birthday, so I'm going to make some time for reading this week. The weather is cold and wet and it's wreaking havoc on my sinuses, so as a result it's a lot easier for me to get a headache from looking at a screen.
I'm obsessed with this video:
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There might be more to this weekly roundup if Saturday night hadn't wiped me out. I made dinner and after that I was completely finished. I must've slept for over ten hours, but I didn't really sleep well the night before. The cartoon on grid paper is one that I did on the bus to and from a job interview that I declined, but they're still emailing and calling me as though I were coming in tomorrow. The crying face was doodled while I was telling a story during the museum walk zoom today. This piece above is currently untitled and I finished it before I went on vacation. I bought fancy Sequential Art Bristol so this took a long while as I actually used rulers and did a pencil laydown before. (It caused me to lie down a lot. Lying down is part of the process.) I am very happy with how it came out. Today on the museum walk we went to the Belvedere Museum in Vienna and looked at all the Klimt. We had a small turnout today, but still had some good discussions; what I thought about most was how artists like Klimt and Munch are considered "fine art", but I don't know that their works would be considered "fine art" if they were contemporary; I think they would be classified as "lowbrow" or "illustrative" (or that most damning of adjectives, "decorative"). I know this is something that is constantly being asked, but I was there looking at this little satisfying crying face doodle and thinking, "why isn't it art?" Today at the zoom museum walk we also discussed variations on stuffed pumpkins as Dr. Cath was making what I believe is Ruth Reichl's stuffed pumpkin recipe, which I had been made aware of when I had sent my BFF Kate this Ghapama recipe. Dr. Cath is cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year, which she is fine with but feels stifled about because she can't do anything truly interesting like make a garam masala turkey. I think she was just shooting off an example, but now I'm obsessed with a garam masala Thanksgiving turkey. Can you make a stuffing out of naan? I would also have some curry mashed potatoes.
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