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*PearlyPony:iconPearlyPony:
:cake: and moar :cake: :airborne:
Sat Apr 19, 2008, 4:17 AM
*PearlyPony:iconPearlyPony:
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Tue Apr 15, 2008, 2:42 PM
*Elvandia:iconElvandia:
Much love! :glomp:
Sat Apr 12, 2008, 10:13 PM
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:glomp::heart:
Thu Mar 27, 2008, 10:59 AM
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*CHOKE* NO THANKS!! :fear:
Wed Mar 19, 2008, 12:50 AM
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Cheese pegasus? :lol:
Mon Mar 3, 2008, 6:42 PM
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:poke:
Sun Mar 2, 2008, 12:22 PM
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Luff for teh Mandies! :glomp: :heart:
Sat Feb 23, 2008, 3:59 PM
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I can haz pineconezzzzz★ we are go now! remembea, horse are ppl 2
Sun Feb 10, 2008, 2:09 PM
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:glomp:
Sun Feb 10, 2008, 11:22 AM
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:floating:
Sun Feb 10, 2008, 11:15 AM
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:glomp:
Mon Jan 7, 2008, 1:23 AM
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:blowkiss: :aww:
Wed Dec 12, 2007, 3:01 PM
*Shiaine:iconShiaine:
:hug:
Wed Dec 5, 2007, 11:01 PM
*WhisperingWolf:iconWhisperingWolf:
Le Manda is le shiz :lick::heart:
Sat Dec 1, 2007, 10:37 AM

Honesty please. What do you want to see?

27%
48 deviants said Realism/tighter work
24%
42 deviants said Mythical equines
16%
29 deviants said More Gem Unicorns
12%
22 deviants said Stylism/looser stuff
10%
17 deviants said More traditional paintings
6%
10 deviants said Smoky Bacon!
3%
5 deviants said Straight work from photos
2%
3 deviants said Don't care, don't even know why I watch you
1%
2 deviants said Other subjects - your horses bore me.
0%
No deviants said A different style, yours needs work
59 comments | Past Polls

Recent Journal Entries

  • 4/27/08 painting wip, photos
  • 4/20/08 art blog & other stuff
  • 4/15/08 griping
  • 4/6/08 sundays
  • 3/28/08 <3 thankyou
  • 3/25/08 max - he's gone.
  • 3/11/08 cold tea
  • 3/2/08 half and half
  • 2/23/08 smiley
  • 2/20/08 Really disappointed.

    • painting wip, photos

    Journal Entry: Sun Apr 27, 2008, 10:02 AM
    • Mood: Lonely
    making progress with the watersoluble oils. it's actually coming along SO much better than my attempt at regular oils... it's taking time, but I'm getting into them. Possibly even loving them ;P

    anyone thinking about trying out oils (watersoluble or otherwise) might want to have a look in my artblog for progress shots, I'm trying to explain what I'm figuring out as I go along.
    Artblog [link]

    and for anyone too lazy to go look, here's a sneak peek at how far I've got



    also took some photos yesterday!



    *moodycam

    that's it really. the other aspects of life are on hold. (like they were ever going anywhere, anyway.) I'm just concentrating on getting better at my art. because that's the most important thing right now. I give up trying to be like everyone else, I'll just be a reclusive oddball for the rest of my life. XD



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    art blog & other stuff

    Journal Entry: Sun Apr 20, 2008, 1:29 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    a long time ago, I decided to get a Livejournal. I then proceeded to post a lot of life-related tripe on it before letting it die a miserable death.

    I've spruced it up a bit and it will now be my Art Blog - I will upload works in progress, sketches, painting steps etc there. The idea being I'll put stuff there that normally wouldn't make it here. (Also, no life related stuff is a self imposed rule! Artistic discussion only! :lol:)

    If anyone's interested it is here [link] You can friend me if you're on LJ, or just check up on it now and again if you feel so inclined :) or, if you're only interested in seeing the finished stuff, disregard it. lol

    thank you for all the comments etc on that last painting... :love: I actually didn't think it was that great, I might go back and refine it a bit. I have some water based oils now too, so we'll see how that goes.

    I've been a bit all over the place the last few days and I still have comments to reply to from the last journal, so if I haven't replied you yet I'm not being rude. ;)

    also it was my birthday yesterday. And I still look like I'm 12. :XD:

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    griping

    Journal Entry: Tue Apr 15, 2008, 1:24 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    a bit stressed... nothing is particularly bad, just not particularly great either.

    I want a laptop because my home computer is a heap of junk with a horrible old monitor that has pink and blue lines going across it. (yes that is the one I do my digi artwork on... haha) I can't look at my photos off my 400d without it lagging really badly and/or crashing.

    I wanted one of those Dell ones that come in the pretty colours (want a green one!) but when you're almost done selecting all the customised bits and bobs you want with it, there's a little section that says something to the effect of "You've requested that we give your contact information to another party who will then proceed to call you day and night regardless of wether you want them to or not"
    Well no I damn well didn't thanks, and nowhere could I see an opt-out... so sod them. We get enough friggin unwanted sales calls at my house as it is. Plus it ended up being a bloody expensive laptop anyway, and my brother bought Dell and said they'd never use them again, they messed up the order and their customer service was awful. So no green laptop for me.

    Still frustrated that I have to waste my life away just to earn a decent wage, the idea being a poor artist is becoming increasingly appealing... but I'm so racked with indecision. I'm too scared to make that step in case it falls through.
    In the process of gathering references for painting practise (some of which I hope to sell, or maybe keep and build up some kind of portfolio) I finished an acrylic friesian on 16x20 canvas, but I really need to refine my style of painting. I should have photos of him soon.

    I want to apply to the Equine Art Guild or whatever it's called but they're not accepting applications, I'm too scaredy to apply to the UK one because you need to be approved, I want a website but I don't know how to code a decent one and I don't know if I can afford webhosting, especially if I quit working so much...

    basically I want to move on and make some kind of career out of this. but I don't know where to start, or if it will even be worth it. And where are the customers, lol. There are too many equine artists who do this WAY better than me, and I don't have a niche. Unless I concentrate on the fluid stylised 'Exuberance' kind of stuff. I just don't know how my work would be recieved outside of DA.

    DA has been peeing me off, it keeps crashing this computer all the time. I don't know why. In fact DA has been rubbing me up the wrong way for a while anyway. I appreciate the place, but at the same time I wonder why I bother sometimes. I should just stop trying so hard to integrate myself into the community and become a lurker, I reckon!




    lil mizz!
    *moodycam


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    sundays

    Journal Entry: Sun Apr 6, 2008, 12:35 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    • Listening to: gimme toro, gimme some more!
    sundays are really slow! I'm always here on a sunday (mum's cooking lol) but it's always dead quiet on dA, and everywhere else too...

    so, give me a wave if you're sad like me and are surfing DA on this fine sunday!

    I still have the lurgy, will probably get some more art done during the coming week since I'm not likely to be back at work for a few days...
    I'm tired of being ill now tho. I haven't been able to get a decent night's sleep since last sunday.

    I'm going to get me some water soluble oils and try them out... does anyone have any experience with them? are they any good?

    check this artist's website [link] amazing! I wanna paint like thaaaat. hm. wonder how long it'll take me XD

    I went a-browsing earlier, came across some nice stuff SO here is a featurismo!




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    <3 thankyou

    Journal Entry: Fri Mar 28, 2008, 1:58 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    just wanted to say thank you to everyone who left supportive comments over the last couple of days (a lot of you!) I couldn't reply to them all because there were so many and I'll get myself in a state again if I keep looking at those photos lol. but I appreciate every single comment left. thank you very much :flowerpot:

    once I find the time I want to get a huge piece of canvasboard and start a painting of him. I only ever sketched him halfheartedly, I'm gonna do it properly this time.

    not too much else to say. still overrun with ideas and artistic inspiration and not really being able to get much of it put to paper. still it's not as if I'm not doing any art at all - I am in fact, quite a lot of it, it's just not here. it's been a great opportunity for me to push myself a bit, working with minimal to no reference and getting a feel for equine anatomy, branding it in my head, working and re-working. It's a good exercise :)

    Re the Horse Trust fundraise, for anyone who is interested, particularly those who bought prints etc... I am getting a cheque posted off this coming week (it won't accept my crappy debitcard). Together with the little bit I've added myself to make it a nice round number we've made £150. In actual fact because I pay UK tax or something it'll be upped to £180-ish. So that's great :D Not a huge amount by any means but I'm really pleased! Thank you again to those who helped out!

    Most of you have probably already seen this... judging by the favourites lol... but in case you haven't, please take a look

    my commission by the mighty =Ponytail!
    I'm thrilled :love:


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    max - he's gone.

    Journal Entry: Tue Mar 25, 2008, 12:54 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    • Listening to: incubus - light grenades
    just spent over an hour waiting for my parents to get back from the vet (they took him in a low-floor taxi)
    his heart rate was very erratic, on top of everything else and the fact that there's no way my parents could afford the bills that would follow x-rays and treatment, they put him to sleep.

    he would have been 12 on 16th April












    ***********


    he's got bad in the last week or so... I don't live here anymore so I don't get to see how he's deteriorated. probably for the best, I don't know.

    he keeps coughing up, really noisily like he's going to vomit but nothing comes up. it's unsettling, not just for us but he obviously gets distressed by this. his breathing has got really laboured in the last week, I just sat with him 5 minutes ago and he's breathing so fast, and heavily with a slight wheezing sound, almost constantly it seems.

    he's already been diagnosed with some kind of chest/lung ailment. his back legs get so bad now that he can no longer be walked, he has to stay at home. He used to be so happy to see you he'd greet you excitedly even if you'd only been out to the shop for 5 minutes... now he won't even get up out of his bed at all. some days he doesn't even bother to lift his head.

    no-one's sure what to do with him. The vet is a good 40 mins walk from here which he can't manage, he won't get into the car because he can't lift himself off the ground with his legs, and no-one can pick him up as he's too heavy (my dad has a bad back too)... They're thinking of calling a vet out, it's so expensive and god knows what they'll do with him when they get here anyway. I think the best thing will be to have him put to sleep, rather than dragging out whatever it is, he's just not happy anymore.

    so I'm bracing myself really, it's just a matter of time.







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    cold tea

    Journal Entry: Tue Mar 11, 2008, 11:18 AM
    • Mood: Lonely
    • Listening to: incubus - light grenades
    is actually quite nice.

    really want to get that stupid quiz off my frontpage. SO here is a totally pointless journal.

    So much to doooo and not enough time... I've been ill all last week and the weekend too. Four days off work is not enough, I need more... although I did manage to get a big chunk of artwork done over the last 3 days. Can't show you though ;P not yet anyway...

    I would love to cut my hours right down at the hotel and just do say 2 days a week, and make the rest up with art... but I'd be living on beans and tbh I'm too comfortable to do that to myself :XD: I'm not cut out to be a TRUE artist, starving and all!
    Although it would give me more time to work on the things I really need to finish up (~appieloosa and ~shadowfax88 I owe you some serrrrrious grovelling...)

    plus prints people, I'm way behind on getting stuff out but I'm catching up now. Still taking orders for prints for The Horse Trust if anyone's interested... (I have to mention that)

    I'm well bored... Tell me some interesting things!

    Might as well put some features on this journal to make it not-completely-pointless.





    (one day I'm going to challenge myself to do a feature with NO equines! But not today. or ever, probably.)



    see my photography at ~moodycam

    Available for commissions. See [link]
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    half and half

    Journal Entry: Sun Mar 2, 2008, 12:01 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    • Listening to: qotsa <3
    What does a pegasus in flight actually do with its legs??

    Do they fold up and hold them stiff as if in the moment of suspension of a jumping horse? Do they move them in a running motion? Do they splay them out randomly, or do they kind of dangle there?
    It's been bugging me, is all :D personally I reckon they'd look weird if they held them in one place, but equally they'd look stupid flailing them around...

    I just had to delete a bunch of journals going back to the beginning of the year. I'm really sorry if I missed anything important!

    as the title suggests, I was pretty high on life but I'm back to half-and-half now. I won't go into it but it's the same old story as ever, anyway. I'm waiting for my lucky break ;)

    Still taking print orders for the Horse Trust! The total raised has gone up by a fair bit, I'm really pleased, let's just say I'm aiming for £100 and we're not far off! Thanks so much for the help so far!! Posters at 18x12" are £12.00, they look pretty rad :) All other prints info is here [link]

    Also if anyone is interested I have some original art that I'll sell for the charity...


    £20


    £20


    series of 3 7x5"
    £15 for the set

    Photobucket
    6x8" I think?? (not on dA)
    £10

    Thinking of getting my hair cropped reallllly short... not sure tho, I always said I'd never get my hair short but I'm so bored of it and sick of having to straighten it every day. And it's my femininity! I have no curves or boobs lol... take my hair away and I'll look like a boy. XD Probably.

    One of those things that everyone hates :lol: courtesy of ~Marbletoast... And it's the biggest one evarrrr! Permission to throw things at me granted!

    Single or taken: single
    Gender: fem
    Birthday: sooooon!
    Sign: The ram.
    Hair color: Black
    Eye color: Brown
    Height: average
    Are you straight/bisexual/gay?: straight

    ----------F A S H I O N | S T U F F --------------
    Where is your favourite place to shop for clothes?:     H&M, Topshop
    Favorite designer?: not have
    What is your sexiest outfit?: uh... I have knee-high boots?
    What is your most comfortable outfit?: trackie bottoms and a jumper maybe
    What do you usually wear?: Jeans and a nice top
    What’s your favorite outfit?: My beautiful prom dress!

    -------------- S P E C I F I C S -------------------
    What kind of shampoo do you use?:     Garnier in the red bottle
    What are you listening to right now: My brother's Youtube drumcover of "Dig" by Incubus
    Who is the last person that called you?: My dad for being 20 mins late!
    How many buddies are online right now?: I have absolutely no idea

    ------------- F A V O R I T E S-----------------
    Foods:     chicken, ham/gammon, roast, cheese, chips, chocolate
    Girls names: don't know
    Boys names: don't know
    Animals: horse, kittens! and dogs

    ----------------H A V E | Y O U | E V E R-------------
    Given anyone a bath?:     lolno
    Smoked?: Nope!
    Bungee jumped?: no way
    Made yourself throw up?: no.
    Skinny dipped?: nooooo!
    Ever been in love?: as close as you can get
    Made yourself cry to get out of trouble?: No
    Pictured your crush naked?: :XD:!!! No I am of pure and clean mind!
    Actually seen your crush naked?: No... But now I'm getting images. hahaha
    Cried when someone died?: yeah
    Lied: everyone lies a little bit don't they?
    Fallen for your best friend?: Nope I'm straight and don't have any male friends
    Rejected someone?: Kind of. But I should have played it differently
    Used someone?: No I don't think so
    Done something you regret?: Yeah, I should know when to keep my mouth shut. And when to NOT keep it shut.

    ------------C U R R E N T ---------------
    Clothes:     long suede boots over jeans, black jumper with green hearts, pink and black scarf
    Music: Queens of the Stone Age and a couple of Incubus tracks are being thrashed out of my ipod on an almost nightly basis
    Smell: Home
    Desktop picture: [link] :XD:!
    Cd in player: n/a: ipod
    DVD in player: Don't have a DVD player, or indeed any DVD's for that matter

    ----------------L A S T | P E R S O N----------------------
    You touched:     hugged my dad earlier
    Hugged: See above
    You IMed: can't remember, would have been ages ago! A DA buddy probably
    You yelled at: A cat, this morning
    You kissed: ugh... I'd rather forget that thanks!

    -------------- A R E | Y O U --------------------
    Understanding:     I'd like to think so
    Open-minded: Yeah... I'd say so
    Arrogant: No. I hate that
    Insecure: very
    Random: See the first sentence of this journal entry...
    Hungry: No, I'm stuffed full of party food! Mums ftw
    Smart: Not really
    Moody: Yeah I can be :giggle:
    Hard working: I try my best but sometimes I can't be arsed
    Organized: When I want to be
    Healthy: Uh... judging by what I just ate... no?
    Shy: If other people could define me with one word, I think 'shy' would be it
    Difficult: No, I like an easy life, at my own expense mostly
    Bored easily: depends. I can find enjoyment in things many people would find really boring. I like routine I guess (tho not in everything)
    Obsessed: I can have obsessive tendencies, definitely. Not in a scary way though
    Angry: Not outwardly
    Sad: Yeah! In both senses
    Happy: honestly? not too much
    Hyper: XD No.
    Trusting: I'm too trusting for my own good, yet I trust nothing and no-one, including myself
    Goth: I have black hair and I feel naked without black eyeliner, otherwise no
    Emo: Sadly yes. XD I have emo tendencies!
    Depressed: I think so, at times
    Seeing a Therapist: no. But I should be :XD:

    ---------W H O | D O | Y O U | W A N N A--------
    Kill?:     no!
    Slap?: Everyone. lol
    Get high with: nah
    Talk to offline: I'd like to have a chat with Nadja sometime.
    Talk to online: Anyone who'll listen! haha

    -----------------R A N D O M ---------------------
    In the morning I:     struggle to find the enthusiasm, and eat biscuits
    Love is: an elusive little bitch
    I dream about: finding myself in potentially hugely embarassing situations, ie. suddenly realising I have no clothes on. yeah I don't know either.
    Sexual preference: didn't we cover this?

    --------------- W H I C H | I S | B E T T E R ---------------
    Coke or Pepsi:     pepsi.
    Flowers or candy: Chocolates! I'm not a flowers person really
    Tall or short: doesn't matter...?

    ---------------W H O---------------
    Makes you laugh the most:     whoever bothers telling me their funny stories
    Makes you smile: well, right now someone makes me grin like an idiot. But he doesn't know that
    Gives you a funny feeling when you see him/her: Same person!

    -------------- D O | Y O U | E V E R ---------------
    Sit on the internet all night waiting for that someone special to IM you?:     no, I do have a life omg shock
    Wish you were younger: yeah.
    Cry because someone said something to you?: Yeah I take things to heart
    Cry because you’re crush was taken from you: Kind of

    ----------- N U M B E R--------------
    Of times I have had my heart broken:     Really properly drop-kicked? Two. And if things go tits up with this guy, then we can make it 3.
    Of hearts I have broken: Possibly two but I don't know. I'm not proud and I should have done things differently. Karma is real I guess
    Of guys I've kissed: 3
    Of girls I've kissed: once only on the lips tho
    Of CD's I own: Enough to fill one storage basket (not many then)
    Of scars on my body: one on my calf from getting off a bus in Greece



    see my photography at ~moodycam

    Available for commissions. See [link]
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    smiley

    Journal Entry: Sat Feb 23, 2008, 12:22 PM
    • Mood: Lonely
    • Listening to: qotsa <3
    feeling smiley. :) Better than I have been anyway. which is a good thing.

    I got my 'mythique' poster print. It looks awesome!! I'm really happy. If by any chance anyone is interested in a 18x12" print of mythique, opalescence, beautiful damned, the starbringer or any of my other digital pieces for £12.00 for Horse Trust then just let me know! (Traditional pieces are a possibility but most of them I don't have saved large enough)


    (~moodycam)
    surprised at the number of faves I got on this already... was it featured somewhere?? Makes me happy though, nice to know that people like my photos. I enjoyed those 2 minutes photoing the dog so much, I have to do more. I really want to get to a dog show or something.


    I'm sorry most of my journals lately are centred around money and purchasing stuff. :| I know everyone's a starvin artist lol. I love you guys :hug: you've done a lot for me. you make me happy. :aww::heart:
    I'll repay you and get to catching up on your deviations (edit AND JOURNALS omg!! :ohnoes:) soon, I promise!

    more featurismo




    :love:



    see my photography at ~moodycam

    Available for commissions. See [link]
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    Really disappointed.

    Journal Entry: Wed Feb 20, 2008, 9:55 AM
    • Mood: Lonely
    • Listening to: qotsa <3
    So the charity auction really didn't create much interest at all. In fact the 3 people who bid were all from DA, so were it not for me advertising it here, it probably would have gone unnoticed. (Many thanks to those who did bid, btw... I appreciate it very much indeed :heart:)

    Together with the two prints I also sold during the week we made a grand total of £25. I will be putting some towards it myself of course... I'll have to, it's pretty pitiful. I'm a bit annoyed to be honest, I thought maybe it would drum up a little more interest than it did. I'm thinking about extending the prints offer or auctioning something else, but I'm not sure if there will be any point.

    I was just hoping for a little bit more... I even emailed the charity and told them that by writing up a newsarticle on DA I'd be reaching a wider audience and therefore more potential interest. So much for that!

    So guess who's feeling pretty stupid right now, thinking she could have made a difference...

    together with other things that have happened this week, it's generally been a sad, frustrating and disappointing time. Both for me personally (aside from this charity stuff) and here on DA too. I'm still shocked by the loss of Sherece, I won't go into yet another tribute journal to add to the pile. I want to say that it's woken me up and made me realise that I have nothing to worry about compared to some people, but sadly in all honesty it hasn't. It's just numbed me, being so stunned by this news about someone I'd not met in real life, who I only knew through some kind words, a couple of hazy photos and an equine persona... all it's done is made me more angry and bitter about how and why things work out the way they do, why things are so meaninglessly unfair. Only after something like this happens do you realise how much someone's words can stick with you. I hope sooner or later I can get my act together and act on what me and Sherece talked about very recently. She gave me real hope, and I should do her memory some justice and go do something about it. I need to shake this little raincloud that's been hanging over my head and won't go away.

    On an unrelated note (trying really hard to lighten up here) I've been looking into getting poster-sized prints of my better pieces done (mythique, opalescence, starbringer etc). I've got one on its way to me, if I like how it turns out I will probably start offering them here. They won't be dirt-cheap (they're costing me £5.99 minus postage, so they'll have to be more than that). Maybe will have to take a list of anyone who may be interested, could possibly put anything from that towards the Horse Trust too.

    Sunday was a good day for photos.


    (I've really been neglecting my photoaccount. I'm really sorry to anyone I watch there.)



    see my photography at ~moodycam

    Available for commissions. See [link]
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