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[phosfate]

Huge and terrifying mall clearance sales this weekend. I went last night, because I like cheap shit but hate everything else about the place. Yes, I will take a lovely Hogwarts t-shirt for $5.00, thank you. $10 for a scary-ass Little Apple Doll? Sure! See y'all after Christmas.

Weekend temperatures will be in triple digits, so I will stay in, doing laundry and cowering in fear of this goddamn doll. (Note to self: buy milk.)

Meanwhile, bits of the household art and furnishings are going to my siblings (since they, like, actually own them, the fuckers). I will not be sorry to lose the watercolors of barns. But this leaves me with walls that need filling, and no matter how much I wish otherwise, the Buckaroo Banzai one-sheet just doesn't look good in the living room, and costs the Earth to frame.

So I figured, fuck it, Dick Blick has big canvases for under ten bucks, and if you finish the edges you don't have to frame the damned things. So...I am trying to paint with acrylics.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAyeah.

I now have examples of objects for which hanging is, quite literally, too good.



_{Thank God they've started making watercolor canvas.}

Comments

[respndines.livejournal.com]

A Hogwarts t-shirt for 5 bucks sounds dreamy. What is it about the little apple doll that frightens so? It's not one of those ones whose faces are made out of REAL dried apples, is it? Those scare me.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's a doll line called Little Apple Dolls. This is the one:

http://www.vvinyl.com/toys/dolls/apple/erro.asp

You can't see the detail very well, but when you put her mask on, she looks like this really scary old china doll that wants to stab you in the calf. And their regular blank faces are scary enough, as you can see from the series line-up.

http://www.vvinyl.com/toys/dolls/apple/default.asp

There are many others as well.

Lord, you're right, those dried-apple dolls are freaky.

[respndines.livejournal.com]

Egads, I see what you mean! I like their clothes, though. Their "stabbing-you-in-style" outfits, I guess.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

For less expensive frames (I framed all of my one-sheets years ago. If I hadn't just sold them all or given them away, you could've had the frames, dammit): www.americanframe.com. Request a catalog. I might have one last bronze metal frame, currently holding a Mosquito Coast VHS release poster from Blockbuster (I used it as a bulletin board). If I do, you can have it for shipping. I can disassemble it for mailing. You can get the glass at any full service harware store, cut to size. Iff'n you want to hang Buckaroo somewhere else.

Won't the milk curdle if it's in the same house with the scary dolly?

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

...those Apple Dolls are kinda terrifying.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*nods* I don't know why, but the masks are much worse than the blank faces.

[ginnytonnick.livejournal.com]

Those dolls look like the cat boy from The Grudge. It would be cool if you squeezed them and they yowled.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

...I hate you now.

[ginnytonnick.livejournal.com]

MMMMeerrRRROOOOOwwww

[amanda-now.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hated the watercolor canvas I bought. It doesn't fit in at all with my style of painting, the kind that requires details and stuff. Abstract paintings would do well on there. Or acrylics. But I think that defeats the purpose.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I could see you using it in conjunction with India Ink. But the canvas' lack of absorbency makes it a lot different from working on paper. "Why are you doing that?!? Stay there! STAY THERE NO DON'T DISSOLVE AGHAGHAGH!" But I like the way the color stays bright, and the no-buckling thing. If I needed to do a lot of color pick-up, I'd totally love it.

Or, really, any color pick-up.

[amanda-now.livejournal.com]

The no buckling was nice too, but yes- totally different from paper. I want non-buckling watercolor paper that is not illustration board and doesn't cost $12.00 per square inch. Is it too much to ask for magic cheap art paper? I don't think so.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I cannot disagree. WE DEMAND OUR MAGIC CHEAP ART PAPER, DAMMIT!