Posted

Apr 23rd 2006

Mood

Artistic

I have new brushes, a couple sheets of canvas-style paper, brown acrylic paint (accompanied with a deeply [and deepening] founded hatred for all paints non-watercolor), and a set of neon fabric markers.

I'm trying so hard with those acrylics, but every time I work with them I just end up watering them down to watercolors. It's pointless. Besides, who wants a watercolor painting on canvas?

I really like the solidness of acrylics and the (to me) theory that you can correct mistakes with them, but when it comes down to I just can't do it. So what did I do? Buy more, of course!


Also, the other day my friend introduced me to Book Crossing (www.BookCrossing.com). The basic idea of the website is to find new books that are an awesome read.

After registering your books with Book Crossing, they are left in the "wild" (also known as the public...perhaps a store near you or a school, local cafes would be good) and found by other people. People read a note attached to the book that contains your book's tracking number and a bit about what Book Crossing is, and come onto the website, type in the book's ID to 'track' where the book has travelled. After they're done reading they leave the book for another person, and so continues the chain.

The whole concept is pretty amazing to me; I've always wanted to do something like this. I figured that a lot of you would be interested as well.

My own name is LostSoulnaf if you're interested.