Friday, November 07, 2008

First Wash



Painting with water-soluble oil pastels, a figure that became sinewy with flesh tones, reds, greens and tree-trunk browns, while listening to "Alex," my computer's best voice, reading a long piece of writing by a young friend...

Highlight the text to be read, hit the keys you've set up to start the text-to-speech recognition, and voilĂ ! Free to work and listen to whatever you'd like in the big net-wide world.

4 comments:

  1. this is a very interesting painting Brenda.

    to me it almost looks like a different species of human being that lives in the sky and is preparing for flight.

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  2. Boris, thanks!

    Who knows where this piece will end up, the beginning is always so different to when it's finished.

    I'm glad you're not irritated at how contrite I was!

    She also looks less bird-like now since part of her leg has insisted on being blue.

    Off to write as much NaNoWriMo as I can before sleep.

    hugs you dear young Russian-Aussie!

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  3. Anonymous2:17 AM

    how is this painting progressing so far Brenda? Or have you been giving most of your time to NaNoWriMo?

    I am still away on holiday so haven't been online much at all.

    take care

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  4. It's not progressing at the moment, sigh. No reason I couldn't spend half an hour a day on it, or a few hours a week. Just lazy.

    Hope you're still enjoying your holidays, Boris!

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