A backward glance...

My fingers were cranky and then I went and drew a soft-ground abstract thing. My index finger is back to being a sausage and my middle finger is well on its way. I wanted to draw one more soft-ground plate, too, a hot air balloon similar to one I did for a recent commission. Since I can only balance tools/utensils between my thumb and palm... that probably won't happen. At this point, I'm looking at a future of web-design, because I can't keep killing my hand with drawing and painting.

So, while I wallow in finger-swelling misery for the last week of class, I'll post these. Did them during the painting class I took last year. We only had a model once I think. It's the only time I've ever painted the figure from life, which is kinda sad. Still feel pretty terrible at drawing/painting figures. Have never practiced enough. As far as my hand problem is concerned... I won't be getting more practice anytime soon.







Went back a forth with a Blogger Help dude... eventually he suggested I contact Google Apps. Did that, but it's probably going to take forever to hear back. *sigh*

Unreal...

Just spent six hours... six solid hours trying to figure out the domain issue.

I got nowhere.

I'm totally exhausted. Getting any kind of help through blogger or google apps or anything else that is necessary to get things working... is apparently impossible. Never, in my whole life, have I come up against so many brick walls, infinite loops, and labyrinthine paths of non-information with technology.

Astounding.

I couldn't even post to the help forums because I got a pop-up limiting the characters in my post to 8129. Firstly, what kind of character limit is 8129? Secondly, my post was less than 1000 characters!!! I re-tried this on different accounts and reloaded browser windows and I got the same thing every time.

I need to access my DNS info at eNom. The way to do this is through Google Apps. I can't login to Google Apps because it requires a Username and Password that I never made because the process was automated through Blogger. I can't retrieve that information because (1) there isn't anything to go on and (2)it wants to send my info to a secondary e-mail account, which does precisely zilch. When I click through the option that 'I don't remember my secondary e-mail account' it sends me through a recursive loop, right back to the same problem.

Six hours of this. Six hours scouring various google searches and forum postings and articles.

I intended to go to bed early. It's now 5:23 am.
I could cry.

UPDATE: A day later... tried posting to the help forums from my mom's Mac and it didn't give me the character limit problem. Fingers crossed someone can help me out.

Great success...

...at the lab.

9 prints! 9!

"...and they call it a nine. A NINE!"

4 more Science editions, bringing my total to 11. Experimented with two transparent rolls on it. The first didn't have enough contrast. The second was interesting. Then printed those old abstract plates that I mentioned. The first caught a dip in the plate, but the next two were pretty awesome looking!!!

The weekend is for finishing HTML/CSS homework and another soft-ground drawing on a plate if I can make the time for it (and my fingers put up with the strain).

Domain should be AllisonClaire.net here pretty soon.
Giddyup.

Change in the air...

I should be in bed. 3:17am. Eep!

Printing lab in seven hours, which means I have to be awake in five. Been up all night figuring out blogs and potential website domains. The HTML/CSS class has definitely shoved me in the direction of trying to get a real site up for my work... in a more commercial sense. So, yeah. The domain will be changing here, among other things.

Left: Wild abstract plate that took four long acid baths with soft-ground and different things painted out. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Printed one proof with orange, which was kind of interesting.

Right: Science plate edition!

The main reason I'm going to the open lab is to print this puppy. I think I'm at six so far. Should get four more... if I don't sleep through the lab hours. Must sleep! The goal is four more Science editions plus I want to try a transparent roll with it. A different look. AND THEN, if I have time (and some extra brain cells) I want to do a couple more iterations of those deep bite abstract prints I did in the Spring. I had a vision of rolling them up with pale gray and an orange linear gradient stripe... can't shake it until I try it. Might not work with ink, but it looked awesome in Photoshop. We'll see.

Need to update my Flickr photostream and put that to better use.
Aigoo, so much to do!

Oh, and my fingers are still problematic... I'm just... yeah... pretty fed up...

Thanksgiving was nice, by the way. ^^
Bedtime!