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Story.. Here is a very sweet and graceful little pup. I call her Fancy Girl. She looks confident, and she has reason to be be. Would you look at how well-behaved she is? Not chewing on a shoe, or eating a cushion. She's not even watching TV and lounging in her doggie condo. Well... I think she may be waiting for the proper signal from her human, so she can ditch the princess routine for the day and go chase a squirrel. Because she looks like she's got a secret or something.
Composition.. I like how she is not only a bold focal point, but she looks like she's on display in a fancy jewelry case, or perhaps at the museum. Funny, the things you can dissect from your work once it's complete. I don't remember once thinking of a jewelry box or a museum when illustrating this. Wait a minute... I
did think "Royal Family". That explains a lot.
Colors.. I love the combo of the bright sea green (as
Crayola likes to call it) and the citrusy lime. It's so fresh. Then the pops of grassy green and a bright, true yellow in the "museum case" border build nicely on the green theme. It seems like the colors shouldn't compliment each other, but they do. I greatly enjoy the putty color of the background as well—one of my favorite neutrals, somewhere between beige and grey. It's a great base color on which to tell a story, be it a demure or wild one—yet it keeps things sort of buttoned-up. Of course, the entire composition is based on a foundation of dark brown line. Brown IS the new black... well, it is in my world, anyway.
I know, fall is the perfect time for apples, not summer... oh well. Today I say summer, because I wanted to post them!
My keyboard died today. RIP, keyboard. So it's off the to the Apple store to buy another.
I seem to have a keyboard-killing gene. I go through quite a few more than most folks do, I suspect. Maybe I bang on the keys too hard? Maybe I spill too many snacks? Who knows. I do clean my keyboard every now and again, but I'm not sure how much good it does me.. or rather, it. Anyway, life is complicated for my keyboards, I guess. It's survival of the fittest. A struggle for life. Just like "Wild Kingdom"... but in my studio...
(I'm typing this on my laptop keyboard, by the way.)
Wish me luck at the Apple store. My main goal will be to leave with what I go in there for... and ONLY what I go in there for.
Hey, those summer apples above really DO fit the theme today, after all..
Here's a fine young reindeer from Santa Claus's crew -- it's Cupid! enjoy!
Hey, where have I been?? I 'fell off' my blog. There is no other way to put it. And certainly there's no *pretty* way to put it. It's sort of like falling off a cliff, but there's no cliff...anyway, here I am, and I am happy to be here!!! I've missed posting the past couple of weeks!!
By Kirsty OUP-UK
Back in October I told you about our poll to discover which word could sum up the 21st century so far. Well, I’m pleased to report that over 1,000 people took part, and the results are now in…
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By: Rebecca,
on 7/10/2007
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Adrian Vermeule, author of Mechanisms of Democracy and co-author with Eric Posner of Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts, is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. (The article below draws upon material in Chapters 3 and 4 of Adrian Vermeule, Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small, and upon Adrian Vermeule, “Absolute Majority Rules,” forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science ( Cambridge University Press, October 2007)).
Many institutions, public and private, use non-majoritarian voting rules for many issues. Supermajority rules, which require more than 50%+1 of the votes in order to change the status quo, are familiar; an example is the filibuster rule in the United States Senate, where 60 votes are necessary to force “cloture,” that is, to close debate on an issue. (more…)
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This is so adorable, Kathy! I really like her attitude and the colour scheme is besutiful!