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I did mention I acquired an unanticipated fascination with Egyptian surface and border patterns! I created these sheets of various combinations of border patterns to clothe the Three Kings in last year's Christmas card. I had limited time, so they are maybe not as detailed as they should be - I'm learning that sometimes I stop too early in adding details and tweaks, both in embroidery and in painting.
So this year's target is to become better at judging when to keep going, rather than when to stop!
I occurred to me last night - if I have become an artist (and I think I have) - it's almost entirely due to Mary Chubb, and the inspiration that she gave me with her book "Nefertiti Lived Here". As I learned to respond to that inspiration and tell the stories that appealed to me, I learned how to tell other stories, too. As I learned to tell stories in stitch, I found more stories I wanted to tell.
And then telling those stories gave me the skills to tell others.
All this to say - you never know what direction life will turn!
I am quite unreasonably proud of myself for this, sketched freehand to guide my needle.
A few years ago I would have painfully traced this. I haven't yet got used to my increasing facility with a pen.
TIL you can link to any text in a web page - without anchors - using text fragments.
Example: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html#:~:text=complexity
Docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Text_fragments
www.lysator.liu.seRob Pike: Notes on Programming in C
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@histodons @numismatics And one benefit about revisiting this piece - and a confession: I initially had this coin listed as 1915, but
A) this coin wasn't issued until 1916, and
B) the year is "年 七 正 大" which is year 7, or 1918.
Hello, it's been a while so I figured it was a good time for a re-introduction! I'm Megan, I enjoy posting random glimpses into my life and the thoughts that accompany them, as well as boosting bits I enjoy.
I'm into:
- fiber arts (knitting, crochet, cross-stitch)
- security engineering
- learning what I can
- a general love of cats, goats, and sheep
- nature
- Everquest 2
Looking forward to meeting new people and finding old friends here.
Ah, the joy of posting some potentially helpful information on Mastodon about $thing, then editing that post five times as you learn more about $thing, thus exposing your noobishness.
(I'm talking about me, by the way.)
Another sunny day for the #ArtAdventCalendar.
I'm frankly astonished by this one. It's absolutely not a subject I would choose - it involves painting people, eek! - and I did it as part of an online workshop, all of which would normally result in something that would go in the bin, and certainly not be shown to anyone!
But this is atmospheric, I think, and if not actually accurate, it is at least lively.
Suggestion/heads-up for those interested - July is known as World Watercolour Month in some parts of the interwebs. The idea is you do a watercolour a day for the month of July, and post them with the hashtag #WorldWatercolourMonth2024.
If you don't want to post yout pictures, of course, you needn't.
But I have found that I get much better at seeing subjects to paint from an intense month of painting, so it's an interesting and useful discipline.
Don't pressure yourself - I limit my ambitions to 10 or 20 minute sketches, maybe A6 or so in size.
But it can be fun, and you'd be amazed what you can find to paint...
Two versions of the same view..
One, painted directly, no drawing;
Second, underpainting in blue, glazes over the stop.
They are neither of them among my better work, but they were worked during classes, so of course I was thinking about what I was trying to learn, and not what I was painting!
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@foone “…never something you do just cause it would be interesting…”
This is exactly the reason I set aside time every year to do Advent of Code. Fun little daily projects that ultimately don’t matter in the grand scheme of things, yet I do end up learning one of two new techniques or algorithms every year from it. I know I will never see the global leaderboard, but I challenge myself to complete each day before looking up other solutions. #AlwaysLearning
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TraciEverything is a learning curve, right? In the beginning of our #coffee planting journey, we fell into the trap of making the nursery with plastic nursery bags. There are so many issues with pests and weeds, it seemed like the most obvious solution.
But damn, that's a lot of plastic on an organic farm. And we couldn't always get the right sized bags to allow for optimal growth.
In his research, Michael re-discovered an even more traditional nursery technique - he's done it for smaller, annual plants, but never at this scale or for this kind of tree.
This is our second nursery, which consists of deep beds - they are lined with plastic, but we've avoided all those little bags. When the time comes for transplanting, the walls will be broken down and the plants carefully extracted one row at a time. The hope is to give them optimal conditions for growth and to prevent root damage upon transplant.
Todo es una curva de aprendizaje, ¿verdad? Al principio, caímos en la trampa de hacer el vivero con bolsas de plástico. Hay tantos problemas con las plagas y las malas hierbas, que parecía la solución más obvia.
Pero eso es mucho plástico en una granja ecológica. Y no siempre conseguíamos bolsas del tamaño adecuado para permitir un crecimiento óptimo.
En su investigación, Michael redescubrió una técnica de vivero aún más tradicional: lo había hecho para plantas anuales más pequeñas, pero nunca a esta escala ni para este tipo de árbol.
Este es nuestro segundo vivero, que consiste en camas profundas; están forradas de plástico, pero hemos evitado todas esas bolsitas. Cuando llegue el momento del trasplante, se derribarán las paredes y se extraerán cuidadosamente las plantas, fila por fila. La esperanza es darles unas condiciones óptimas para su crecimiento y evitar daños en las raíces en el momento del trasplante.
#agroecología #agriculturaregenerativa #permacultura #SiempreAprendiendo
#agroecology #regenerativeAgriculture #permaculture #AlwaysLearning
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I recognize the name Ding Darling from the National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, which I visited in the 1990s. Had no idea he was a cartoonist. Ding founded the National Wildlife Federation, designed the first federal duck stamp, and was a director of the Bureau of Biological Survey. Cool beans. #AlwaysLearning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Darling
en.m.wikipedia.orgDing Darling - Wikipedia
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@futurebird I am new teacher in the visual arts. I was relying on students intrinsic motivation because of my personal experience, but I have come to recognize that some people need a gold star like you say.
Other classes are using grades as leverage so to compete for my students attention I will foreground grades and being more specific in the rubric this term. #alwayslearning
Shadow Play: An experiment today for the #ArtAdventCalendar. I was playing with screen prints on gauze (for my #DreamsOfAmarna overlays) and then tried to get a variety of shadows with embroidery.
#HandEmbroidery #Embroidery #ArtistsLife #AlwaysLearning
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@bodhipaksa Thanks for letting me know about the CamelCase tip. #AlwaysLearning 
Yes, I moved from a self-hosted Mastodon instance to this one... It was smooth sailing and I'm glad to still get to connect with those I was connected with, previously.
Greg Cocks FINALLY getting (correction: MAKING!) a chance to learn some #PostGIS and utilise it in a 'real world' setting!
I appreciate the opportunity...
#GIS #spatial #mapping #postgresql #postgres #spatialdata #opensource #gischat #selflearning #alwayslearning #opendata #appliedscience #datadelivery #database #rdbms #OGC #STGeometry
@opengeospatial
