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Am I going to be so normal about FINALLY, finally getting the hang of support swindling?
ABSOLUTELY NOT! I'm so thrilled I finally figured out the technique!! It's been driving me NUTS.
Thankfully I have very pretty spindles to play on, I'll get a group shot of them all together when I'm back at my house in a few days.
#spinning#fiber art#ooh that is so pretty! a great muse to support (haha) your endeavors!#not my art
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Goth girls love trains
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Rainbow over the Klamath River ~ Eileen Kitayama 2018
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another elusive pond visitor that I was finally able to photograph. this beautiful spider wasp has been visiting the pond since we first put water in it. I think she's finally becoming accustomed to a big lens looming over her while she drinks lol.
Unknown Mud-nesting Spider Wasp (genus Fabriogenia).
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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
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Little Lord 44 enjoying an extremely luxurious afternoon
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Okay so in my Computer Applications class we learned about conditional formatting in Excel, where you can change the color of a cell by inputting certain values.
We're supposed to use it to model heat gradients in metals, but I found a better application:
FROG ART
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Here's another batch of postcards... These are last month's.
Everyone who joins my postcard club on patreon gets a mini art print like these ones in the mail each month!
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Share it! Subscribe to my channel! Comment on youtube about what I should make next! LIVE LAUGH LARD!!!
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split up a blended top to experiment with striping colours, doing chain ply to keep the colour changes, the bring green is so pretty and all the neppy white bits were so fun when spinning the single
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Blue-banded Bees 🐝🌿
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[ID: Three photos of a purple to pink to orange gradient yarn sitting on weathered wood planks in direct sunlight. In the first, the yarn is a single, unplied twist wrapped into a ball around a disc shaped core (the cardboard of an empty masking tape roll).
In the second, it is a loosely tied hank of three-ply yarn; it has been chain-plied, so neighboring segments of yarn are wrapped together, preserving the color change with minimal variegation.
The third photo features the hank laid with the opposite side up next to a shallow dark-orange mug with a spindle resting in it at a 40 degree angle. The spindle was 3D printed horizontally with a rainbow colored filament, from a spot of orange on one side through red, purple, blue, and to green on the other side. It is about nine and a half inches or twenty-four and a half centimeters long. The spindle is a supported Russian style, its base an inverted teardrop shape before a waist and the shaft of the spindle that's widest just above the waist and tapers down to as thin a spike at the top as possible. End ID]
I spun yarn! And plied it! This spindle and spinnable fluff were an incredibly generous gift from @dangerphd amid excess from 3D printing experiments! I'd previously spun one skein on a drop spindle in high school -- and I loved it for the process and made a chunky shawl of the Stephen West Spectra scarf design with it, but boy was it an uncontrolled thick and thin mess. Whether due to actually carrying over that learning more than a decade later, or the lighter (supported) spindle, or marginally more patience with age, this went way better!
I was definitely struggling with repeated breaks at the start and compromised my intention to go as thin as possible, but by the end I felt like I got decent control and consistency in my single's weight. And seeing how much less fragile those once-broken sock-weight singles are once plied should help me keep up the confidence with future fiber to really push for the thinner threads that I want to use. I had just learned about chain plying and wanted to try it when Danger sent the gradient fluff, so it wasn't a problem when there were several spots that I was sure would need plying for strength--and overall it's still less chunky than the thicker parts of the single I had made before! And much more even than I expected.
I haven't been brave and tried fulling it yet, just barely dampened and hung with a minor weight (a thick flannel shirt on its hanger) while drying. (It smells like wool once wet, though less strongly than some and I don't actually know its fiber contents.) But it's already pretty well behaved. It's a bit less than 20 feet of yarn, and I have to get into and through a different project right now, but I'll find something that lets me use it soon enough.
#thank you again dangerphd! it was such a cute package y'all#and it arrived while i was out for a very long day so it was like returning to a little dragon's horde of treasure in my mailbox#except a little more mad science themed than fantasy because 3D printing and spinning experiments#until i get some straw to become gold spun on the rainbow that is#spinning#fiber art#cj gladback#ramblings
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Well now I know that if I do get facts relating to any of those crafts they might indeed be fun for you! I'm definitely more on the planning side of crafts as soon as I know vaguely how they work--I always want to design something from scratch in a replicable way versus just making A Good Object or (perish the thought) enjoying the process for its own sake. That might have something to do with the different kinds of patience--but has had mixed results with origami and if I'm not careful everything I knit ends up looking like a stitch sampler. (I'm hoping to go to a fiber festival in about a month and considering taking a dye workshop there--to hopefully discover if I have that brand of patience before I have to buy and store that gear.)
I think if there's craftsmanship to a discipline (which I'm going to define as a way to make the resulting product feel or operate better with more intention and skill), then it counts as crafts. So carpentry is definitely a craft! And if you got wild enough with mediums or needed them to fit a specific context, so could drawing and painting be. But maybe I'm just replacing the word "design" with "craft" in that case.
Nice to hear your perspective on the sketch-to-lineart-like writing process! I might just need more practice to be sufficiently comfortable writing that I don't feel like I'm losing connections between things when I go from acting something out in my head to even an animation or webcomic script where there will be a visual element. Or it might just be an unavoidable loss no different from editing out unnecessary exposition and letting the background be implied.
I've recently mostly been learning techniques (regarding specific software, video game optimization, animation, and fiber art) and am not to the point I can share them condensed into fun facts (or fish facts). So instead, if you wish, questions: do you practice any crafts? And do you often have to translate scenes into written form that you think of first or better in another medium?
I am sure you have facts!
But okay, yeah. I do. I'm not great at most of them! But I whittle and I sew a bit and I knit and I throw pots and I work with beads, things like that. I studied weaving in high school but I haven't touched a loom in years. I attempted dyeing I don't have the correct sort of patience. (There are so many distinct types of patience.) I got into spinning as a kid but I'm allergic to wool.
I also draw and paint but I think those are arbitrarily on the 'art' side of arts and crafts. I do a very little bit of carpentry. Is that crafts.
As for translating...maybe a little? Diana Wynne Jones advised that when setting a scene you should fix an image of as much detail as possible in your head and describe that, as if it was a real thing you have under observation, to avoid accidentally retreating into abstracts and gestures and therefore cliches, and she was so right.
And when it's heavily kinetic things like a fight scene, you are at a severe disadvantage if you're not doing your sketch at least partially in the physical.
But it rarely feels like translating, which is a word heavily freighted in my opinion with epistemological limitation; the treason of our minds in that one thing will never wholly become another, that the second version may be a fine thing in itself but can only approximate its original.
I'm comfortable with words as a medium, they're definitely the one I'm smoothest with, and the prior imagined version is only ever of my conjuring, specifically for the purpose of giving me something to set down in text, and doesn't exist in any larger sense, so I mostly experience this transcription process as quite an adequate capturing of the essence of the idea.
Even when it isn't satisfactory, it tends to feel more like when your linework comes out worse than the sketch somehow, if you know what I mean? Not like if you saw something beautiful and then your painting of it was shit. These are two distinct flavors of frustration.
If I was prone to like, tripping out on mushrooms for inspiration I would probably have that problem more. But my cognitive processes don't really run off ahead of me very often in a creative sense, except in terms of how fast I can type and if I lose my thread in the time it takes to get a pen or a keyboard ready.
For the most part, the bulk of the work is situated within the process.
This is also reflected in which crafts tend to work well for me; clay has always been nice because you can feel your way along and figure out the route as you get there, but the clay doesn't tend to have strong opinions about what you can do with it beyond its basic characteristics like plasticity, which is information you can detect with your hands.
#sorry for the more effort ^^ but also happy to learn these things about you#course i have also gotten plenty of concepts from literal dreams#and that's not mentioning when i'm temporarily so starved for different creative outlets#that i can't plot this! i have to design a tapestry about it! until i do some palate cleansing creative something and can regroup#i've been writing since before i could read and it would be great if that automatically made me good at it#whetstonefires#ramblings#writing
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interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?
me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has
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Giant Iridescent Tiger Moth (Chrysocale gigantea), family Erebidae, Colombia
photograph by Valentin Golubkov
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