Hobbies

[tinyshoes]

kokopelli said:

Sleepy, you are cordially invited to come to Chez Pusher any time to work your organizational magic! (I kid, I kid)

Me too. My place is a cluttered mess.

We have a novelist is our midst? tinyshoes, I like the sound of your book.

Aww shucks. I just hope my writing lives up to my hype.

[india7]

dwanollah said:

Howzibout some links, missy?

If you haul your bad self over to my MySpace pictures, you can see them in all their glory:

It's the New and Improved MySpace.com! Now With 20% More Hack Artwork!

Tinyshoes, your book sounds fun! Are you near to finishing it?

[thesurlymermaid]

Aw, shucks you need to be a member of MySpace to see them.

[india7]

Surly, lemme see if I can work on making some individual links for them.

[thesurlymermaid]

*dances a jig* Awesome!

Oh, for my hobby, I like to draw portraits. Mostly of sports stars because people will pay me quite a bit for them. I'll scan some of the polaroids I have taken of the ones I have sold and post them later.

[india7]

Sorry they're all just thumbnails. The original paintings were around 9"x12". I only have bigger images of the first one and the last one.

Here's one

Here's a second one

And a Third

Number Four!

And-A Five!

We're Up to a Half-Dozen...

Lucky Number Seven

Last But Not Least

The last one is pretty special to me - that was my brother's favorite painting of mine. Although I sold it a long time ago, it'll always have a special place in my heart because he liked it so much.

[thesurlymermaid]

Hey, India, those are really beautiful! I just want to reach out and feel the texture. Did you ever take any classes because these paintings really set a mood with the different colors. About how long does it take you to do one? What is your inspiration?

Gah! I'll shut up now. But beautiful work!

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India, those are great. I want to create a faux-Pollock (mostly because I think it would be fun to splash paint around!), but have yet to get around to it.

I also want to read tinyshoes book. Less Prada, more stuff I can afford!

I, like Oxynia, knit. I knit a lot, since I don't have kids, significant others or much of a real life. Most of my knitting is for me, although some is for the parental units. If you want to see what kind of stuff I have knit, the slideshow is here. The knitting has really interfered with my reading, because it's really hard to keep the book open while both hands are full of needles and yarn!

[india7]

Nice knitwork, Spordelia! I'm jealous of anyone who can make something so pretty!

Thanks, Surly and Spordelia - Surly, no, I'm self taught. Really, it's nothing more than fucking around with paint and a canvas Like I said, it's the reason I only do abstracts - so I can just do whatever I feel like doing. No real inspiration!

Length of time - anywhere from one evening to a week, depending on if I don't like the look of it - I may rework it a bit.

[tinyshoes]

I love your paintings India! Even though they're thumbnails, I can still tell they're gorgeous.