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which_chick) wrote2019-05-23 07:59 am
which_chick) wrote2019-05-23 07:59 am
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Bird for a spin and I suck at art
Took Bird for a spin after work, mostly work on walk-trot transitions (the downwards are hard for us to maintain a nice outline and decent contact -- they're not as balanced and smooth as I would like) and some lateral efforts. I also played briefly with fancifying the canter as per DLB instructions, had what felt like preliminary success with that. We will revisit it repeatedly as summer wears on.
It's not really "art" so much as it's representational drawing. I went out after work yesterday to gather up some exuvia (the left-behind shells of dragonfly nymph forms after they've eclosed to adult form) so that I could work on drawing them for my playing-at-science field notebook. Given that I haven't tried to draw anything in ages, results were regrettable. But, imma keep trying. They are (kept inside, in a container) fairly long-lasting. In the wild where they get rained on and stuff, exuvia last for like three days. But in a house, in a container safe from the cats... I can practice a lot of times.
In other news, I ran up to the hard road this morning along about 5:30 am to see about prying some wood off a dead building. It's very attractively greyed and I feel like they're going to tear the building down soon (half of it has fallen in) and I would like the boards before they're gone. But there's a lot of traffic on the road at 5:30 am and so I did not pry boards off. I will have to go on foot (vehicle is too visible) and pry off boards and lug them away by hand. Ugh. Perhaps this weekend I can find some not-very-busy time to go do that.
It's not really "art" so much as it's representational drawing. I went out after work yesterday to gather up some exuvia (the left-behind shells of dragonfly nymph forms after they've eclosed to adult form) so that I could work on drawing them for my playing-at-science field notebook. Given that I haven't tried to draw anything in ages, results were regrettable. But, imma keep trying. They are (kept inside, in a container) fairly long-lasting. In the wild where they get rained on and stuff, exuvia last for like three days. But in a house, in a container safe from the cats... I can practice a lot of times.
In other news, I ran up to the hard road this morning along about 5:30 am to see about prying some wood off a dead building. It's very attractively greyed and I feel like they're going to tear the building down soon (half of it has fallen in) and I would like the boards before they're gone. But there's a lot of traffic on the road at 5:30 am and so I did not pry boards off. I will have to go on foot (vehicle is too visible) and pry off boards and lug them away by hand. Ugh. Perhaps this weekend I can find some not-very-busy time to go do that.