podling | My Clouds Still Suck and Candyland Is Evil

So today I keep looking at a pic of the board game "Candyland". I'd make it my desktop, except that looking at it disturbs me. But I have to look. I have to paint something very similar to it on a stage tomorrow. The play opens this weekend. Cutting it close? Why yes, thank you. Eep!!! At least I'm certain I can do it. Maybe. Possibly. Eep. Candyland, you are evil!!! And you rot teeth.

Also... I didn't really feel this belonged so much in the weekend thing, but, well, over the weekend I spent a lot of time looking at clouds. Mostly while walking around. Because I just cannot paint clouds very well and it bothers me. It bothers me quite a bit. So I spent a lot of time just looking, trying to track the color changes, see how the shading changed. How I could modify what I do so it works better. Maybe if I practice on something small I'll get better. Painting for stage shows tends to require more grandiose strokes, less really *detailed* details. That's not exactly true, but it's close. If I painted really detailed details I'd quickly go insane and the sets would never get done. So details are bigger details, and my clouds still suck. I have a gift card to an art supply store, maybe I'll get some canvases (canvii? I wish that was a word...) and try my hand at that. Or maybe paint on tiles...

I was thinking of a new project in my house, a fake window on the inside wall of the dining room. I'm not sure how it'd work though, and I really do have things I should do first. Like get to work with that hacksaw my mom bought me over the weekend. Woo!