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Ink & Thought on Tiny Card

...early morning drawing session...

"Elepaio" - NEW WORK!

Paint and Ink on 60cm x 30cm wood panel

I found out about "Elepaio" through the Hawaiian folktale called "Kimo - The Whistling Boy" by Alice Cooper Bailey.

Wikipedia describes the elepaio as...
"a bold and curious little bird, and thus it was attracted to humans whom it found working in its habitat, and it quickly learned to exploit feeding opportunities created by human activity, altering its behavior accordingly - which incidentally made it even more conspicuous."

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Tryptic???

tryptic: of, relating to, or produced by trypsin or its action

trypsin: a proteolytic enzyme that is secreted in the pancreatic juice in the form of trypsinogen, is activated in the duodenum, and is most active in a slightly alkaline medium

...Basically that means the life-providing energy that travels throughout our bodies. And that's what I make. ^^)

Welcome!

Hello, my lovely guys 'n gals! And welcome to... THE BLOG THING!!!!!! I'm going to be using it to display new art mostly, but like it says above, I'll be using it for lots of other "novedades" as well - tips, events, projects, and things I like! So there you go! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again reeeal soon-like! Happy days!

-Meeshle!*

"Aaah... Clean Drawing!" - A Quick Tip on How to Draw Cleanly with a Work in Progress

I'd just like to share a little tip with you today, dealing with... ohhh... clean drawing... Yesterday I decided to dedicate much of the day to working on a piece I'd started the other day con muchas ganas! (See here) Lovely, lovely, great, great, great! Everything's going juuuuust dandy! Super enjoying myself as always - maybe even a little toooo muuuuch.... ;) 

So I put the drawing aside to take a break..............(See: here) 

When I looked back at the drawing there was a big black dot resting on the paper. I said, "Oh my god? What is that?" 

Now, see, usually I have it clear. And here's the tip:

***Always, always, always take care of unwanted dust or ash, or other kinds of little things by BLOWING them off the page!!!! Never use your hand or finger to WIPE them off the page.... they could be made of something nice and juicy, and leave a happy brown trail behind.

If it won't come off by blowing on it, and it's something like marker felt residue (usually caused by colouring something in), still don't wipe try to wipe it off the page... simply dab your index finger DIRECTLY vertically over it. It'll stick onto your finger and you'll be able to lift it up off the page without creating any smears. Or use tweezers. Good.*

Ah! But even if this DOES happen, and you DO get a smear across your page, never worry - where there's a problem, there is always a solution.*

So let's see how we fix this one....

^^)