Life is funny. The very weekend that my work is having a huge sales event centered around a ‘cruise’ theme – where all employees were to dress in apparel such as Hawaiian shirts, beach shorts, and flip-flops and local restaurants were going to set up booths with either food or coupons – yes, this very weekend is the subject of our very own winter storm. Six (and maybe more) inches. This area hasn’t seen that much snowfall in six or seven years.
Needless to say, backyard is literally swarming with birds. We have, literally, twelve birdfeeders. The only possible end result during this snowfall is a feeding frenzy (kitty has never been happier, taking up a permanent perch next to the kitchen window). I swear I can hear each of them chirping “HAY GURL HAY” over the saxophone of the weather channel. It’s too bad this snow couldn’t have been here for, say, Christmas. Of course, snow isn’t the only belated Christmas-related event in my life.
… I’m referring to presents, of course. Fortunately, I have patient friends.
I’d found an unfinished jewelry box-thing at goodwill; the surface had been partially primed, but there was some damage in a few places. I had to sand down a portion of the top, but other than that it was practically begging to be altered. I decided upon the image of the Windfish because the recipient (as well as myself) has a fondness for Link’s Awakening. The underpainting, if you will, is all prismacolor markers; the color palette was chosen because, really… that’s all the colors I have at the moment (hahaha). On each of the sides, I’m going to put Link & the Owl and then Marin & a seagull. It’s weird, because I haven’t done any fanart in well over two years (the stuff in the previous post is old), so I’ve been feeling particularly nostalgic and meta about it as a result.
(omg, babar is on. love)
