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New masks
As promised, some pictures of my new masks.
In other news, I am SO happy that our nation's multi-billion dollar Homeland Security Act has protected us from...Meatwad. Way to go! Yeah, I guess if you squint and tilt your head a little, the 'Lite-Brite" display of a Moononite flipping the bird might look like a bomb. *sigh* Maybe I'd be more inclined to be outraged by it all if the freaking displays hadn't been out in public for weeks and weeks...I guess they SUDDENLY looked bomb-like on Wednesday (wednesdays will do that to ya...more people don tinfoil hats on wednesdays than on any other day of the week...it's true!). What's next, exploding Wile E Coyote displays? Beware packages that look like HUGE anvils with "ACME" printed on the sides! We need to coin a new term for this phenomenon; "Cartoon-Terrorism".
And OMG if Sessoumaru dies I am going to be monumentally pissed-off. It'll cause a great disturbance in The Force...almost as if millions of fangirls "squeeee!" all at once, and are silenced. Takahashi (as I was pointing out last week) has a penchant for using "one word" titles for the chapters where characters are killed off. "Wind" for Kagura, "Light" for Kikyo, "Void" for poor little Kanna. I swear if I see that next week's title is something like "Pride" I am just NOT going to read it. *shakes head*
They're not really "new", since I do these all the time. I have a basic "half-mask" pattern that I trace out on the leather. Then, with a stylus, I etch a dragon onto one side of the mask (most often with the wing sticking out beyond the edge 'cause I just like it that way), and then I cut out and carve the whole thing. Usually, I do the mask in black and they look like this:
...but I felt like getting colorful so I did the blue & gold mask above, as well as these two:
I'm curious to see what people think of them. I'll find out next week in Kalamazoo, I guess.
...but I felt like getting colorful so I did the blue & gold mask above, as well as these two:
I'm curious to see what people think of them. I'll find out next week in Kalamazoo, I guess.
In other news, I am SO happy that our nation's multi-billion dollar Homeland Security Act has protected us from...Meatwad. Way to go! Yeah, I guess if you squint and tilt your head a little, the 'Lite-Brite" display of a Moononite flipping the bird might look like a bomb. *sigh* Maybe I'd be more inclined to be outraged by it all if the freaking displays hadn't been out in public for weeks and weeks...I guess they SUDDENLY looked bomb-like on Wednesday (wednesdays will do that to ya...more people don tinfoil hats on wednesdays than on any other day of the week...it's true!). What's next, exploding Wile E Coyote displays? Beware packages that look like HUGE anvils with "ACME" printed on the sides! We need to coin a new term for this phenomenon; "Cartoon-Terrorism".
And OMG if Sessoumaru dies I am going to be monumentally pissed-off. It'll cause a great disturbance in The Force...almost as if millions of fangirls "squeeee!" all at once, and are silenced. Takahashi (as I was pointing out last week) has a penchant for using "one word" titles for the chapters where characters are killed off. "Wind" for Kagura, "Light" for Kikyo, "Void" for poor little Kanna. I swear if I see that next week's title is something like "Pride" I am just NOT going to read it. *shakes head*
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Tengwar...er...does this mean you've read The Silmarillion? Because I've always loved the Sil even more than I love LotR. And though I have no tat, I have always yearned for my own signature stamp similar to Tolkien's symbol printed in gold on the front of the centennial hardcover version (illustrated by Alan Lee) of LotR...the one with his initials overlapping in sharp, sharp tipped font, so that the whole looks like a very complex Kanji. The T and the J blend and the R's stick out to either side...wait, here it is: http://www.valaquenta.com/sigil-large.php I want one of those so bad! WAAAHHH I can't draw. :(
But...you make jewellery. This is mildly creepy. I make jewellery too. (My favourite stuff is Celtic in metal, and anything that looks 'fairyish' or like a dryad or fairy would wear it...big leaves and things.) I don't think I'm as good as you...I stick mainly to hairsticks. Let's see...
Here's a necklace: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/0001dha4/g12
and another: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/00026d53/g12
That one only looks good on people with prominent collar bones and straight shoulders like mine, but I'm just not as good as you, if the few pics I saw are any indication.
And what I'm better at, hairsticks (This is the first one I ever made): http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/00028ft1/g17
And I occasionally try experiments like this: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/000b04d5/g12
Told you...hundreds of pics in my LJ scrapbook, lol.
I want to try doing wooden jewellery next, I think, I've got a tentative idea for a necklace. And you know what's weird? I love that 'charm' look of the 'ringing in your ears'...and I THINK I used similar beads to some of those in there in one of my hairsticks, here: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/000kaz47/g16
I swear, this is very odd. It's like you've got a piece of my brain...or perhaps I have a piece of yours? Whichever of us is dumber must have donated the extra bit, lol.
Weird, weird. I'm going to go back and look at your stuff a bit more...
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And nice colors...sodalite, lapis, silver knotwork, I like! You're working on tigertail? Much much faster for sure, I've tried it but prefer the knotting as silk drapes better (and if your necklace should break, you're less likely to lose the beads!). It's not that hard, really, and still really quick going compared to the seed bead work that I learned as a child...you've got a good eye for color and pattern and that's much harder to teach than technique!
(I'm a bit embarassed by the praise, though, as this is in no way whatsoever a showcase of my best work...it's just a record of those few pieces I've kept. I'm a fine example of the cobbler's-children-have-no-shoes syndrome, all of my biggest, most ambitious pieces have been done as gifts and gone unrecorded, and I'm lucky I've managed to hang on to these scraps! I can do better work, honest. Well, at least as so far as beading and embroidery goes -- those crappy sketches are as not-good as I can get for works on paper. Frustrating since I finally have an idea for a second tattoo which I desperately want...but it's non-calligraphic and thus beyond my skill, boo hoo.)
As for the hairstick/charms...not quite identical, as the larger of the glass beads on this have an odd opaque white core -- but the smaller aqua beads are awfully close to the ones you used there.
Weird, weird, weird. Here, let me friend you so poor
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I've given away most of my best sticks, too. I've made about fifty but I only have twenty or so actually with me, now...I sold a few, too. I take pictures of ALL my stuff though, before I let anyone have it :)
Yeah, I feel bad for rambling in Meri's journal...she'll check her email and see a million messages and none of them will be aimed at *her*.
I'm very bad as an artist, not because I don't have the potential, but because I am lazy and entirely self-taught. I often don't even research stuff...I had to look up 'tigertail' just now to make sure I knew what I was talking about. Yep, that's what I put those on :) I've never seen silk thread available in the store I shop at, but I'm sure they must have it somewhere. Though wouldn't you have to knot it an awful lot to get the beads to stay in place if the hole is large? My Celtic Dryad...the silver beads have quite large holes.
I can sew, too...but as evidence of my laziness, I've never studied it or taken real lessons...I just decided I wanted to make my mother a winter coat for her anniversary, so I got a pattern and did it. It looked awesome, but because I didn't know enough, I got an inappropriate type of fabric that wrinkles if you so much as breathe on it. :/ Otherwise a success, though, even the lining. But I sabotage myself, being lazy in the beginning and not doing a lot of research on material and technique.
Got to confess, at first I thought the charm bracelet was an earring-nosering linked thingy (don't know what they're called) because I thought the pin on the end was a stud earring. I wondered how the heck you could stand to have something so heavy attached to your nose, lol.
I only have...I think three of the HOME books. I did actually read them, though...but only once through. You know what bugs the heck out of me? I once read in one of my books Tolkien's reply to some fan's questioning of Legolas' masculinity, wherein Tolkien got annoyed that they perceived Legolas as a fairy-boy, and he protested that Legolas was as strong as a young sapling or something like that...and I have NEVER been able to find that passage again! It might have been in his Letters, but I haven't found it.
The guy who worked on LotR (the movie of course) on languages...I'm pretty sure I knew him at a (Tolkien) newsgroup in 1997. Semi-related factoid there, not of much interest but I gaped when I saw his name on the credits for the movie. HE was a super Tolkien nerd, lol...I don't think anyone could beat him. He went so far as to make MONEY off his fanboyism. :D David Salo...I'm not sure, but I really think that was him. The guy I argued with about Balrogs on the newsgroup, whose specialty was language, his name was David, and someone named David Salo worked as a consultant for language on the film. I really think they are the same person. It'd be cool, anyway. :) (Everyone was always asking him to make sentences and stuff for them, lol. Poor guy, but he loved it.)
I have GOT to stop talking. (PS: you might not be that much older than me, since the Sil was first published in 1977, I think...I'll be 29 at the end of May.)
Also...I suck at calligraphy. Horribly. My handwriting bites, too.
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I believe this bit from Book of Lost Tales is the quote you're looking for:
"He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the remendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship."
And yeah, David Salo was a regular on the newsgroups (may still be, I've not checked in there for a while.)
More self-taught laziness here, surprise surprise. But, ah, a bit older than you. HEY YOU DANG KIDS GET OFFA MY LAWN!!!
Ah well, I've already offered Meri some musical goodness, perhaps extra downloads will suffice for penance?
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Your eye doesn't look very old...no wrinkles :) (hehe, sounds silly, doesn't it?)
Damn, I HAVE that book, AND I checked it...why couldn't I find that? Grr...I KNEW I remembered it!
PS: I'm sorry, Meri. I'm going to be quiet, now.
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Talk away...holy crap I've never had this much activitiy in my LJ. *feels the need to redecorate or bake a cake or order a tray of pizza fingers*
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