Well, that was somewhat challenging.<\/p>\n
Not just the drawing above (oh my goodness, the dots! So many! Good thing I didn\u2019t plan it; it was more like \u201cI just can\u2019t stop there;<\/em> it doesn\u2019t look right yet!\u201d).<\/p>\n I also mean Oct – Nov : intense (unfinished) job-work. Kid commitments. Travel & old friends. Family medical stuff (at best, time-eating. Not best, but mostly just unpleasant). Holidays.<\/p>\n Mostly good stuff but more time than planned.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to catch up.<\/p>\n In the meantime: this is micron pen on paper, about 5\u201dx5\u201d. The version above is slightly cropped and via iPhone not scanner. I may yet add more dots.<\/p>\n I hope you enjoy. Thanks for being here with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, that was somewhat challenging. Not just the drawing above (oh my goodness, the dots! So many! Good thing I didn\u2019t plan it; it was more like \u201cI just can\u2019t stop there; it doesn\u2019t look right yet!\u201d). I also mean Oct – Nov : intense (unfinished) job-work. Kid commitments. Travel… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-fV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1307,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/happy-halloween\/","url_meta":{"origin":987,"position":0},"title":"Happy Halloween","author":"Kir","date":"31 October 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Little witch pencil sketch for today.\u00a0(Because I was procrastinating reviewing college app stuff for elderKiddo. Now, THAT's scary stuff.)","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":156,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/critters-lugging-stuff-around-4-ill-gotten-gains-raccoon-and-probable-pearls\/","url_meta":{"origin":987,"position":1},"title":"Critters Lugging Stuff Around 4: Ill-gotten Gains? (Raccoon and Probable Pearls)","author":"Kir","date":"13 October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Ill-gotten Gains?\"Sure hope these are real pearls. Why did I take the ornament? Oh well! Almost there!\"Colored pencil on mat board. I'm starting to get the hang of this!(Although still not so much the scanning: despite attempting to adjust scan colors with Photoshop, the original is a more lively sage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":316,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/birthday-dancer\/","url_meta":{"origin":987,"position":2},"title":"“Birthday Dancer”","author":"Kir","date":"28 May 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Another birthday illustration that never made it to the birthday... Watercolors and ink on sketch paper -- the thing about it is I keep working on paper that's too small. It's not that I intend that the illustration be too big for the paper, see, it just keeps happening. I've\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"Birthday Dancer\" copyright \u00a9 2008 Kirsten Talmage","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/BirthdayDancer_web.jpg?fit=500%2C696&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":152,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/critters-lugging-stuff-around-1-birthday-puffin\/","url_meta":{"origin":987,"position":3},"title":"Critters Lugging Stuff Around 1: Birthday Puffin","author":"Kir","date":"11 October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Birthday PuffinOK, 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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