tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50355898613648300622024-03-14T00:49:32.594-07:00Manabizzle CreationsCats, Crafts, and Cosplays.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14137118497908048066noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035589861364830062.post-36070421875851700802016-01-24T18:26:00.000-08:002016-01-24T18:26:05.750-08:00Doctor Fate Hoodie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Doctor Fate Hoodie/Amulet</div>
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Testing out my new fancy sewing machine with a cosplay project! I've been meaning to make a Doctor Fate costume for a long time. The new version of Doctor Fate seemed easy enough to do, so I dove right into it.</div>
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Here are the progress pictures!</div>
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Dog (and the cats) trying to help me with the patterns. I used a commercial pattern.</div>
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I decided to add pockets to the hoodie, because my hands get cold.</div>
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Lady helping me with putting in the hood.</div>
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Some of your might remember my tutorial on <a href="http://manabizzle.blogspot.com/2014/11/doctor-fates-amulet-of-anubis-prototype.html">Doctor Fate's Amulet</a> from a while ago.</div>
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It turned out slightly too small for this costume. So I'm making a new one</div>
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Drawing a circle on cardboard. Dog was too tired to help this time.</div>
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Cut out two circles of worbla from worbla scraps.</div>
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Made a circle with more worbla scraps</div>
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and more worbla scraps.</div>
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And done! I'll make a separate post once I make the helm!</div>
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So, it's about time I started LARPing...a local group is running Vampire the Masquerade. One of the players had a box in the shape of a book to hold her items and I thought I'd fancy it up a little. Here's how you can make you own!</div>
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Box in the shape of a book (Michaels ususally has some)</div>
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Acrylic paint (I used black, red, and gold)</div>
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1. Strip the book box (you can skip this step if you don't mind having a shinier texture)</div>
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2. Draw the design onto the book with a marker and trace over it with hot glue.</div>
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4. Paint the entire box black then dab on red paint with a dry brush</div>
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And we are done!</div>
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Princess Peach Crown Tutorial!</div>
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<li>60mm round acrylic gems (2 red and 2 blue)</li>
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1. Gather materials</div>
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2. Draft a rough crown pattern on the foam and cut it out. I cut it into 4 pieces so it'll be easier to heat/reshape for the worbla. You can do it all in once piece if you are using a different material.</div>
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3. Roughly cut out pieces of worbla to cover the crown pieces.</div>
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4. Use a heat gun to heat up the worbla pieces and seal the foam between the worbla.</div>
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5. Connect the worbla-covered pieces together to shape a basic crown.</div>
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6. Roughly draw design details onto the basic crown.</div>
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7. Add the details with strips of worbla.</div>
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8. Spray paint the crown with a black base. *I usually prime the worbla with gesso, I ran out of time and did not do so for this piece, so the texture of the crown came out a little more rough.</div>
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Bonus: Princes Kira!</div>
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Super Easy Hail Hyda Pie for your geeky needs!</div>
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9 inch pie pan<br />
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For Crust,<br />
2 sheets of frozen puff pastry<br />
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Fillings,<br />
2 cans of 12 oz. pitted sweet cherries<br />
1/2 cup of brown sugar<br />
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1. Drain the canned cherries.<br />
2. Place cherries in sauce pan on low heat.<br />
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4. Stir until mixture is simmering and all the sugar is dissolved<br />
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1. Thaw puff pastry for 40 min at room temperature, or over night in the fridge.<br />
2. Grease pie pan with butter.<br />
3. Gently press puff pastry onto pan to form bottom of the crust.<br />
4. Trim off excess pastry around the pan.<br />
5. Place pie filling in the pan.<br />
6. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.<br />
7. Make 6 tentacles and a skull from the trimmings and the second sheet of pastry<br />
8. Place tentacles and skull in the pan.<br />
9. Press the tentacles and skull a little so they are soaking in the pan.<br />
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I made this fun cat mask for a Steampunk tea party at the <a href="https://geekbarchicago.com/">Geek Bar</a> in Chicago. Here's a tutorial for making your own!</div>
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Pattern - I used the cat mask pattern from <a href="https://gumroad.com/lostwaxoz">Chris Huebert</a><br />
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Optional: worbla/thermalpastics</div>
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Let's get started:</div>
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print out the <a href="https://gumroad.com/lostwaxoz">pattern</a></div>
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you can absolutely make your own if you are good with pattern drafting!</div>
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Trace it onto craft foam, twice.</div>
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Cut out the foam (cat helper optional)</div>
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Optional: trace the pattern onto worbla and cut out the pieces</div>
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Optional: Heat and wrap the warbla around the foam.</div>
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Match and glue the pieces together</div>
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Worbla sticks to itself when heated, you can use contact cement or hotglue if you are only using foam</div>
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Start shaping the mask to head.</div>
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Embellish as you like.</div>
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The lens was from a pair of reading glasses from the dollar store.</div>
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Prime with gesso. Lens covered in painter's tape.</div>
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Michaels always have these little book box things on sale so I grabbed one for $2 and made it into something I can carry around as a clutch.</div>
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This project is pretty simple. All the work can be done in less than an hour but it does take a day for it to dry. All you need is the book box, hot glue, paint, and an acrylic sealant.</div>
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Draw a design that you want on it and trace it with hotglue.</div>
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There are so many different ways of making these masks but this method is as easy as it gets. It takes about 5 minutes of actual work.I recommend watching this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkEbv8jQnY">fun instructional video </a>on making the mask with the same method and includes free patterns.</div>
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Print out the pattern and put a layer of wax paper/cookie sheet over it. I had to tape down the edges so the wax paper doesn't shift around when I put the hot glue on.</div>
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I am planning a Doctor Fate costume for my first armor project. This is a prototype of the Amulet of Anubis to test out the size, design, techniques, etc.</div>
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Drew a rough design on my iPad.</div>
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Painted a <a href="http://manabizzle.blogspot.com/2014/11/make-pretty-rocks.html">pretty rock</a>, and drew a rough pattern on a piece of cardboard with a can of cat food.</div>
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Flattened out the worbla wad onto the circular piece from before and added some details</div>
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Heated up a small square of worbla and rolled it around a knitting needle.</div>
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Attached the small worbla piece to the top of the amulet.</div>
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Sketched out a rough design on my iPad, using <a href="http://paper./">Paper.</a></div>
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Drew the pattern on a piece of craft foam (the first wolf was too derpy so I had to draw another one).</div>
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Cut out the foam and two pieces of worbla that were large enough to cover the foam.</div>
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Covered the foam with heated worbla.</div>
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It took a couple heating for the details on the wolf to show up.</div>
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Curved the entire piece by pacing it on a vodka bottle.</div>
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Primed it with many, many, many, many, many layers of gesso.</div>
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Primed again with a couple layers of black acrylic paint.</div>
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Painted with a rough layer of base colours.</div>
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Added some highlights.</div>
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Now, for attaching the straps to the back.</div>
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Bend some garden wire into little rings (you should take better care of your pliers than I did with mine...poor thing was falling apart with rust).</div>
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Attached the rings to the back of bracer with small pieces of heated worbla.</div>
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Cold days and WoW servers down meant more arts and crafts! This bracer is made with a <a href="http://manabizzle.blogspot.com/2014/11/make-pretty-rocks.html">pretty rock</a> I painted and Worbla (a kind of thermoplastic). Visit my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Manabizzle-Creations/388785691275819">facebook page</a> for more Worbla fun!</div>
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I learned about thermoplastics and painting armor from books by a cosplayer named <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KamuiCos">Kamui</a>. She has many excellent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Mogrymillian">tutorial</a>s and <a href="http://www.kamuicosplay.com/tutorials">books</a> so I will not explain it any further here. Instead, please enjoy the progress pictures!</div>
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I started with a basic pattern and a rock I painted to look like red eye (with GLITTERS)</div>
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Then I used my heat gun (the pink phallic thing in the background) to activate the worbla and molded it to my wrist.</div>
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Covered the eye with painter's tape. Primed with 10-15 (who's really counting any way) layers of gesso to even out the small dents. This is the hardest part - apparently, watching paint dry is REALLY boring (rum helped).</div>
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Fix all the small nooks and crannies, then seal with an acrylic spray.</div>
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1. Paint a thin coat of glitter nail polish on the flat side of the rock and wait for it to dry.</div>
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I've wanted to knit with the Noro Shiraito yarn for some time now. This super-duper-soft yarn is made with an angora and cashmere blend. It's a bit pricey ($30/skein) normally but I managed to grab the last skein that was on sale at the local yarn shop last week.</div>
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Naturally, instead of applying for jobs, I sat at home and knit this hat. At first, I felt like a clumsy moose because the yarn kept on breaking. I had to experiment with the tension quite a bit so the brim of the hat came out a little wonky.</div>
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I used a US 3 circular needle and the entire skein, about 195 yrd. It was knit in the round. Final size of the hat is about 22" circumference and 10" in height</div>
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First, the yarn is offer for cat approval. As you can see here, Lady is showing nonchalance, the cat way of saying she approves, maybe, quite probably.</div>
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Hat brim - CO 108. Start with rounds of knit stitch (I did 3). Then a couple rows of K3 P1 until the end. (I did 15). <span style="text-align: center;">Purl one round when you are done with the brim.</span></div>
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I have been playing video games quite a bit since my life as a student has ended. Now my life as a lowly intern has commenced! I have a bit over an hour of commute to work each way and this bag was knitted entirely on the subway/buses. It took about a week to complete.</div>
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I did not follow a pattern since I suck at sticking to them, but here's how I made it.</div>
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Needle size/gauge/yarn weight doesn't matter here. But I used a wool/nylon bend sock yarn (gift from my best friend) and size 2 needles.</div>
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<li>Find a cable pattern you like (or wing it) and knit each of the rows for the pattern four times, i.e. knit row 1 on first needle, row 1 on second needle, row 1 on third needle, row 1 on fourth needle, row 2 on first needle, row 2 on second needle ....</li>
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I was a bit skeptical about dying acrylic yarn at first, since it's basically trying to dye plastic, but the yarn turned out beautifully and the process was very simple as well! All I used are some acrylic paint (the 90 cents ones you get from wal-mart) and water.<div>
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After a day or so (I put a heater in front of it at night), it's ready to go!</div>
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I've been playing <a href="http://na.leagueoflegends.com/">League of Legends (free to play)</a> for a while now and I mainly play supports. Even though I do not main Soraka, I believe she is still the most iconic support champion.</div>
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I made some slight alterations to the original design.</div>
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I almost gave up this project due to some unexpected hardship. Thanks to a good friend (who transported this staff for me over 700 miles!) I was able to finish it.</div>
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You can follow<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Legend-of-Zelda-Triforce-Pillow/"> this pattern</a> to make your own!</div>
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Made this for boyfriend's birthday! It took approximately two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to make.</div>
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You can find the pattern I followed <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/grey-totoro-amigurumi">HERE</a> I deviated from the pattern a little bit and free-handed the little leaf on this head (below).</div>
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Sorry, no progress picture for this one since it was a pretty fast painting (about 2 hr from pencil to finish). Yes, I need to get a better camera or a scanner...when I get a job.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14137118497908048066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035589861364830062.post-45115429860782668372013-07-28T11:26:00.000-07:002013-07-28T11:26:15.675-07:00Rainbows and Happy Deadpool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've seen a lot of combinations of Deadpool with rainbows and dead unicorns and figure I'd contribute to the internet. Progress pic below:</div>
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1) Pencil outline</div>
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2) Red, red and red...</div>
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3) More colours</div>
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4) MOAR colours!!!!!</div>
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A lot of people think I'm naturally a support player (cleric, healer, etc.), but the reason I play support is so that I can "accidentally" let people die when they piss me off. </div>
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Anyway, here's my favorite support from League of Legends, Nami - the Tidecaller.</div>
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Something I learned from doing this painting - boobies are REALLY hard to shade.</div>
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Progress pics:</div>
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1. Pencil line</div>
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2. Shapie line (sharpies are NOT good on work this small)</div>
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3. Lots of masking fluid</div>
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4. Basic background colour</div>
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5. Foreground colour</div>
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6. Foreground colour</div>
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7. Took off masking fluid (eek too many blank spots!)</div>
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8. Hair and Scales</div>
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9. the CLAMP method - add enough highlights so no one will notice you're really crappy at shading.</div>
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I'm really looking forward to living with <a href="http://manabizzle.blogspot.com/2012/01/cats-in-my-life.html">Nemo </a>next year! He is a very...blunt cat but I love him all the same. The white whiskers and eyebrows are done with gouache (Yes, I just picked those up too. More colours!)<br />
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Sorry forgot to take progress picture on this one.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14137118497908048066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035589861364830062.post-52283778118788160772013-06-24T18:23:00.001-07:002013-06-24T18:24:07.214-07:00Mona Cat!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yup, another cat painting.<br />
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This is my kitty Mona. I adopted her from a shelter five years ago and she's the sweetest kitty I've ever met.<br />
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1) Fist wash with a mix of blue and red (which turned out grey).<br />
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2) A little more color and background.<br />
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3)Added some texture with a smaller brush</div>
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5)Added darker shadows and white fur.</div>
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Horray! Summer shinnanigans! For this summer, I picked up watercolor. This painting is inspired by the episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor described the T.A.R.D.I.S. as a cat (because she was being mean to Oswin).</div>
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Here are some progress pictures.Constructive criticism welcome.</div>
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1) Outline with pencil and some shading in eyes. Paper's actually white, camera's just infected with my Asian-ness.</div>
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2) Applied some masking fluid on the fur to preserve the whites.</div>
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3) In hindsight, I probably should have researched on how to paint a cat BEFORE I started painting a cat.</div>
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4) Did some research on how to paint a cat.</div>
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5) Apparently Doctor Who fans have created <a href="http://io9.com/learn-to-write-gallifreyan-in-9-simple-steps-506989915">Gallifreyan</a>!</div>
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6) Masked the Gallifreyan in the back to preserve the colour and painted the first layer of background.</div>
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7) Masked another layer of Gallifreyan on the bottom then added more colours and salt.</div>
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8) Rubbed off the masking fluid and salt with my fingers and added a little white on the TARDIS kitty's fur.</div>
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I had a surprisingly emotional and wonderfully educational summer interning at the <a href="http://ga-innocenceproject.org/">Georgia Innocence Project</a> (GIP).</div>
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Like any other small, non-profit organization, GIP is only able to afford hand-me-down computers that barely trudged along. I managed to salvage a couple RAM from one of the more ancient models that finally croaked and used the RAM to make a jewelry set. </div>
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This set is available for purchase at the GIP<a href="http://www.ga-innocenceproject.org/events-everyone.html"> 10th anniversary celebration</a> where a silent auction will be held to raise (much needed) funds. Each piece was once used to help free the wrongfully prosecuted. So if you would like a slice of justice to adorn your wrist, ear lobes, or clavicle, visit the link above to purchase a ticket to the silent auction. </div>
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You can also help to free the innocent by donating <a href="http://www.ga-innocenceproject.org/donations.html">HERE</a> or simply "like" the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Georgia-Innocence-Project/41003044337"> GIP facebook page</a>!</div>
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The Making:</div>
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Due to the amount of metal on the board, it was very hard to cut straight. Only four pieces came out presentable. I think a lot of the credit should go to a friend who cut up and drill holes in the pieces but he preferred to remain anonymous.</div>
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