1. yeah, this was a dumb idea.

    shit second pass - red:

    piss second pass - red:


    i'll keep going, i'll probably change my mind after all the reds are done... then change my mind back again part way through the yellows.
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  2. tangents. 

    inch, half inch, quarter... down to one sixty fourths of an inch:

    working with the grids and colour... something kinda nice about the hand drawn grid... each colour at the sixty fourths of an inch:

    red at 1/16 inch:

    add blue at 1/32 inch:

    then yellow between the red and blue:

    all the colours at sixty fourths:

    still a pretty wee drawing, this is just two inches square.

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  3. again with the postal strike (which for me a mere inconvenience really) i kinda held off ordering books, though only a couple of these came by post and oddly, the post ones burned me pretty bad at customs...

    enzo mari, woflgang laib, callum innes and a copy of agnes martin night sea to be included with the sale of my lower case g piece.

    the callum innes book is a real burn unfortunately, really really nice paintings, but the book only shows details of all but one piece, and there's like fifty pieces(!) don't know why they did that. 

    a shit book of really nice paintings. i will keep the book though, to remind me of how important composition is even if it's just a central form on a page.

    my two copies of night sea... pretty different, think the new one is closer...?



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  4. more and more this is feeling like a bad idea.


    ... but, with the six all laid out, i guess i am kinda getting somewhere.



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  5.  cunt and cocksucker, first pass.




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  6. more ebay stuff now that the postal strike is done.
    my cats with typewriters (for some reason) 
    this one's a "real" photo and...

    ... has some press information on the back, from 1959.

    and this weird little post card thing.



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  7. i think i made a mistake... these are pretty hard and they take a long time to do.

    oh well, it's kinda important to see those little pattern patches from 1189 bigger... think they'll read more as fields or textures... maybe...?

    piss is a little tricky because it's the only word with a descender (p), so i have to lead it a bit.

    as interesting as it is to see the patterns bumped right up against each other (entry 1189), i think it'll be nice to see each word pattern isolated/separated.

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  8. and some days are all about the grids.

    it's a 7 by 8 1/2 inch grid of 3/32 inch squares on a 8 by 9 1/2 inch page. 

    it's a stack of six for the rest of the seven words in four colour.

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  9. the monopoly houses are an odd thing... i guess.

    now that the postal strike is over i can get back to finding "useless" things on ebay (maybe there's a use?)

    pretty good haul, though i have no "use" for the hotels and not all the houses are the houses i'm looking for.

    it's a pretty specific house, as near as i can tell, it's from a specific time period (don't know) of canadian monopoly.

    there are actually two "models" which i collect - two shades of green and slightly different door/windows...

    i got 103 and 84 "useable" houses from the lot.

    and then i got this little pack in the mail today (which is weird). i think generally a monopoly game comes with around 40 houses and 12 hotels?

    some day i'll count them all. there's kinda a lot.

    i just looked it up, these houses go way back to entry 84 (2013).

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  10. i'm fully aware that it's kinda odd... but i'm making my own index cards.

    i ran out, but i use them all the time and you can't just pop over to the grand and toy and by a bunch cause there just isn't a grand and toy store anymore so you have to order them and... it's "a thing" now and it didn't use to be "a thing" at all.

    eight on a page... just pencil lines, but the red and blue i have are a little bright so each colour line has a 4h pencil line over top.

    ... it did make me wonder what would happen if i made a stack of one hundred, so:

    don't know what it is or what it means... if anything.


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