Video: sketch book 4

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This is a lot different from what I usually post. It's kinda dark, kinda creepy, kind of an art journal but much more of a sketchbook than anything else. Very nice work though, even if it is creepy, it's creepy cool.

Technique Tuesday: Border

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Unfinished
Originally uploaded by lessherger

I started this page by scribbling 2 colors of watercolor crayon. I wet my brush and added gesso. I spread the gesso around liberally mixing the watercolor crayon with it as I went. I did not attempt to mix the colors perfectly. I wanted a mottled effect. I allowed this to dry completely before the next step.

Again I grabbed my brush pen, held it by the end and allowed myself to work quickly and loosely. I allowed the ink to mostly dry. It is not waterproof ink. I used my waterbrush to blur the outside edge of the border.I added more ink where I wanted more blur. I did this carefully to only blur OUTSIDE the edges and not inside the border.

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Going Gray

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Any of you who also follow me on twitter know that I had grown my hair for Beautiful Lengths and recently cut off that pony tail to send off.

Those of you who know me in "real life" know that until 5 years ago I had short hair. In fact most of my life I've had short hair. I won't go so far as to post my embarrassing high school freshman year pics. I won't go so far as to show you the pics of the shaved sides of my head… Good god the 90's were an awful time for hair. I grew it out at my mom's request for prom and senior year pics. Then in college I was too cheap and lazy to get cuts. (seriously spend $30 on hair when I could spend it on beer? Priorities people!) As soon as I graduated I cut it off.

From then on it was one short hair cut after another. After I quit teaching I shaved my head, yes the college thing many young women do I did after graduation. I was a late bloomer. I also dyed my hair a variety of colors. Bleach was my friend, until my hair was really tired of bleach- for a year I kept it bleached white and short. Sometimes I added funny colors, like pink, blue, orange etc… Again I was a late bloomer. I really wish I'd done more of that in college.

Anyway, until I decided to grow my hair for locks of love I had kept it short. Last time I had 12 inches of hair. This time I made it to 8, when I noticed something… I'm going more and more gray. Anyone who dyes their hair can tell you… Gray hair does not dye evenly, both Locks of love and Beautiful lengths ban more than 5% gray… I'm getting there. I suspect that the 2 years it takes me to grow the 8+ inches needed for either charity I'll be much more gray than I am now, and I'm verging on 5% gray. (I'm going mostly on my temples and sides)

So I'm back to my preferred short hairstyle. This time I went for what the stylist called a longer shaggy pixie cut.  3 or 4 inches on top, one to 2 on the sides and back, and she textured the hell out of it with the razor. It will grow out well becuase of the texture, meaning I'll need a cut every 2 months.

I feel free! What makes you feel free? 

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