All of the summer

So what will I do with all of this summer?

Write a DnD campaign! It would be short, based in storytelling, and would feel like a Terry Gilliam movie. And I haven't started yet.

And I sort of want it done by the end of June, so I'll see what happens. I'll start as if I've never played any game at all, and work my way through the first 3- Player's Guide, DM's Guide, and the Monster Manual. All in version 3.5.

Story, the Risk game.

listening to 72 degrees and sunny, WALL-E soundtrack.

This week has been crazy. There have been so many ups and downs.

I don't know which one goes first, because it will affect the context of the next point.

I loved filming today. I like not being in the picture, I like making connections and working through mistakes and adding little quirks to things. Not having a script was hard to deal with, but the sequential filming made more sense in my mind. Filming in order also helped us make sure the story worked, and that we didn't forget anything.

My dog is dying. He's old and he has cancer and it hurts him to move. It's an anxiety that I try not to think about. We've had him for at least a decade, and he's been sick for a few months, so it's not sudden. But the waiting is so hard.

The house will be empty.

I can't say it's not fair, because this is what happens. I can't say I didn't have time to say goodbye.

But my world is gonna be a little off for a while.

Last summer I made a map of The Moud, which is a continent I made up as I went along. It came out really nice, so I'm making another one, but smaller. Then, I'm gonna make a Risk board, but with Grimm fairytale landmarks, 200 years after the stories. The kingdom set up by Rapunzel will still bear her name, and there will be a desert nearby, with the tower marked off.

I need 40 countries. The goal is to make a usable playing board. It would be the finale of my fairytale pieces. I also need to make cards for them.

I got to see my grandparents today. They're in their 80s, and my grandma is forgetful. It's not Alzheimer's, but it's still kinda sad. It's almost like being in the twilight zone. She'll repeat parts of conversation over and over. We still answer, for politeness, but it's still sad.

There was a character in my brother's show, "Street Scene", who I really like. He was a taxi driver, and a bully, but he also wanted what he couldn't have. And he knew why: because he was a taxi driver and a bully, and that's all he knows to be.

I like that 'knowing you can't have it because you know you're a bad person' idea for a character. Very Beauty and the Beast.

Everybody's got the right to be happy....

Been listening to Assassins today (Everybody's got the right). The musical covers the motives behind presidential assassinations, and it's just so interesting.

Tomorrow I continue working on the pointillist piece (now that I have a middle green thanks luke), and I'm hoping to present it to STAC.

After Romanticism, I was going to work on a Romantic art piece with Hansel and Gretel. What's more Romantic that putting them on a path in the woods with a lantern and scary trees visually blocking the path at every end? Hopefully quill and ink.

Thumbnail and other doodles. The thumbnail isn't the first, it's planned. Cept the fallen tree should be more scary. Hansel's dropping the shining stones... I don't even know if he does that. The path is on the side of a slope, up on their left and down on their right. The pic doesn't really show that.

"Pilfered Waistcoat". Girl getting clothes from the remains of Princes... from a lot earlier in the year. The prince-killing princess. On the right is a version from last summer.

tomorrow is Hobbit Day.

Still thinking about 'Surrealism, the point of connection between two different circles of reality.' And the middle of the realities don't touch, just the edges. I feel like that's important. This also changes the idea of 'what is surrealism'. It doesn't have to be anything other than different realities touching at the edge. I want to use this in art.

STORY TIME:

There once was a King who had a beautiful Queen. She was faithful and of noble birth. He loved her for years, but she became ill and the sickness ate her up until she died. The King mourned and left the castle, as was the fashion of the time, to search for a new queen.

The Queen he brought back was just as noble the first, and almost as beautiful. All the courtiers agreed that she was a fine catch for the King, and that now balance was restored to the throne. But the new Queen found life dull, and soon found love with a younger man. They stole away in the night, leaving a letter for the King.

The King mourned and left the castle, as was the fashion of the time, to search for a new queen.

The Queen he brought back was a fair and faithful girl from a poor town. All the courtiers agreed that she was a fine catch for the King, and that now balance was restored to the throne. Soon her belly began to grow, and one morning the King was told that his boy-child, his prince was born. But alas, the mother did not survive the birth.

The old King mourned and left the castle, as was the fashion of the time, to search for a new queen.

The Queen he brought back was from a far away kingdom, an aged duchess, who loved the King the second they met. All the courtiers agreed that she was a fine catch for the King, and that now balance was restored to the throne. She was not a pretty woman. She helped raise the Prince, and the alliance helped economic issues in the King's land. But as good fortune looked upon them, a hard fact came to the King. His Queen was seen in the kitchens over a cauldron, bewitching bad fortunes.

The law would not allow it. She was taken away, and the King refused to listen to the verdict. He mourned for his love, he mourned for the loves that came before. His heart broke clean in quarters, and he did not wake up one morning. So the Prince became King.

The King had a beautiful Queen. She was faithful and of noble birth.

I wanna be the gramma in Pippin

Listening to Pippin because i just found the soundtrack.

Art in school. I like having school around because if I'm surrounded by not-art stuff, I'm more likely to do art stuff. "If I'm never tied to anything, I'll never be free" is the quote from Pippin.

I'm attempting a pointalism piece for AP and for my portfolio. I've been looking up a lot of paintings and the ideas behind them and a lot of it has gone over my head. My concentration is 'fairytales', so I'm going to have a beautiful view of Rapunzel's tower. I'll be working in crayon, and below is what I have so far of the practice one. Red, orange, yellow, green-yellow, green, blue, and violet. I need to figure out what size the piece is gonna be.

Red sticks out more than i thought it does. oops.

There is also a life-drawing from an airplane. Sleeping people are great.

tea

Before I left Art League (friday was the last day), I asked Ganes if I should do anything for AP next year. He sorta stared at me (I had done a lot of art already). He said that maybe I should do research on my concentration: Fairytales.

For 'Fairytales', I'm using less literary figures (Tom Sawyer, the Mad Hatter) and more for the cultural story collections and children's rhymes. Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, other rhymes (Jack and the Candlestick, Little Boy Blue). I still need to research where these all came from. I should look up Aesop, too, but there aren't many well-known fables (cept the tortoise and the hare).

Don't read Water for Elephants. I don't know why school wants me to read about animal cruelty, spousal abuse, a failing sex life, and more animal cruelty. But I do know that no book we've read in school contains anything about sex being a positive, natural thing. We've learned about incest and rape and pedophilia, but no book has sex in a positive sense.

The problem with this is that the world normally doesnt run on incest and rape and pedophilia. They shouldn't be teaching us that.

I got a lot of tea yesterday, from my aunt and from etsy.