This morning I finished the last book in the Pax Arcana series. I was going to go to sleep like a regular human being, but then I hit this passage: Molly Newman is a supporting character in the Pax Arcana series. She is a lesbian priest who loves Christmas - Christmas music relaxes her. Then I found out she is an alum of my college. I got so excited about this for no real reason. I guess I was excited to find a fictional character who also loves Christmas in any season. Also, Legend Has It (the fifth book) is almost non-stop action, so I was not getting tired at all just from reading. I think I finished it around 6 this morning. It had a lot of references to John Dee, which was an absolute delight. Now I'm bummed because there are no more books to read (although the author did write several Kindle singles that are in the same universe - I haven't read all of those yet), so I'm going to have to move on to the other things I picked up from the library. The collage is coming along: I had some issues with the Ouija board sun and moon at the top. I waited about thirty or so minutes to go in and erase my pencils, but the ink was still wet, so I wound up smudging my inks. I waited longer and even THEN they were wet (I have no idea why), so I didn't erase them until I woke up today, and then I had to go in with gouache and whiten the smudges. The color of the skies are Prismacolor pencils, which I am starting to think are more trouble than they're worth. Prismacolor colored pencils are so finicky to me. One has to use the Prismacolor pencil sharpener on them, or the leads just break. They break even with the special sharpener. This sucks, because one really has to bear down on the pencil in order to get that heavy color saturation. It has good color saturation, but that's really about it. I don't use them very often, though. This collage is going to be part of a series, but I haven't fully planned it out yet. I am also working on a Sad Night Crime painting that has been taxing in terms of waiting for gouache to dry and painting very tiny letters with a liner brush. This is usually something I live for, but now I just wish this painting was finished! Speaking of Sad Night Crimes: My friend Katie painted her own Sad Night Crime! I love and adore it. She's so wonderful - I love everything she does. Check out her work if you haven't already! We went to college together and I'm so glad we are friends.
It's been cold here, and I wish spring would hurry!
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