{"id":152,"date":"2012-10-11T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=152"},"modified":"2012-10-13T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T23:55:41","slug":"critters-lugging-stuff-around-1-birthday-puffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/critters-lugging-stuff-around-1-birthday-puffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Critters Lugging Stuff Around 1: Birthday Puffin"},"content":{"rendered":"
Birthday Puffin<\/cite><\/a><\/div>\n

OK, I suppose this is part of the Critters series. And it’s certainly before the Mouse<\/a> & the Wren<\/a>, but I guess that’ll make the original idea Critter #0? Well, hard to say, since I’ve not actually finished that piece. <\/p>\n

Oh, this one? This was a quick happy illustration with Crayola colored pencil on ordinary printer paper, mounted to green construction paper (I think) for my sister’s birthday card last year. Why yes, it was a little bit last minute and I was babysitting, why do you ask? **chuckle**<\/p>\n

It’s probably not worth trying to print it on anything really since my photo of it was dim and the scan was overexposed, and I have yet to figure out how to balance those two things. The paper is either too gray to the sky and light blue shading vanishes. I think I need more clue on digitizing… Oh well! <\/p>\n

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Birthday Puffin OK, I suppose this is part of the Critters series. And it’s certainly before the Mouse & the Wren, but I guess that’ll make the original idea Critter #0? Well, hard to say, since I’ve not actually finished that piece. Oh, this one? 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