Hello Equinox... my old friend(?)
Sep. 22nd, 2020 09:46 amI've spent the past 3 days slowly updating a small painting I did 5 or 6 years ago. I'm a completely untrained artist (didn't even take it in highschool) and I'm OK with that.
When I first made it part of the idea I was going for was something like an upside down heart with venous vessels as branches:

However, as the years went on it started to bug me -- especially because this was based on a real silvery tree that was important to me in the world -- that it was a naked tree (and also that it had a ghostly stake instead of a wooden one) so I made these updates:

It could surely still do with more work (maybe next year) but for now I'm happy that for the first day of Fall I've put leaves onto my tree.
When I first made it part of the idea I was going for was something like an upside down heart with venous vessels as branches:

However, as the years went on it started to bug me -- especially because this was based on a real silvery tree that was important to me in the world -- that it was a naked tree (and also that it had a ghostly stake instead of a wooden one) so I made these updates:

It could surely still do with more work (maybe next year) but for now I'm happy that for the first day of Fall I've put leaves onto my tree.
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Date: 2020-09-22 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-23 02:57 am (UTC)(Also, holy cow, this is the first time a 'stranger' has commented on a 'LJ' [DW] post of mine in well over a decade! I'm taking it as the 2nd hopeful sign this month that DW is starting some form of revival. The 1st sign was when someone else I know in FB started posting and flagged that they had when I'd had no idea they had an account before then. I said I was also purposefully trying to ease myself back into posting more, which will be a bit of a social trick I plan to write about in my next post). :)
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Date: 2020-09-24 02:43 am (UTC)laugh Hi, I wander around my Networks page a lot.
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Date: 2020-10-17 05:20 pm (UTC)As I start to coax myself back in (you can see it's not quite working yet with the long delay responding to this comment!) that sounds like a great idea to adopt. :)
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Date: 2020-09-22 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-23 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-24 02:15 pm (UTC)It's art time all around. Very nice!
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Date: 2020-10-17 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-25 12:37 pm (UTC)(I prefer the before myself, but I like simples)
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Date: 2020-10-17 05:17 pm (UTC)I like the idea enough, though, that I might do another one on the theme of heart-veins as tree later, though.