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Cheapass Sailor Saturn resin figure arrived in the mail yesterday. She's not bad at all, just desperately needs to be repainted by someone who isn't a Chihuahua shut inside a fridge with an espresso machine.

Meanwhile, Ed is still having a hard time adjusting to his new environment, greeting all he sees with an expression of mute, puzzled horror. So I swapped his pool cue for Saturn's Silence Glaive.

Ed is rather pleased, and Saturn is happy to be free of the responsibility. I think she spent the night hustling the Be@rbricks at pool. Shaun, on the other hand, is horrified. Giving Ed the power of life and death over the entire universe is...well, Ed's a good guy and all, deep down, but for the love of God, there are limits. Ed would never harm one of the increasingly limited hairs on Shaun's head, but the probability of an accidental emfroggening are very high.

Still, he seems to feel a little better, and that's the important thing.

I bought a clutch of Sailor Moon animation sketches off eBay a few weeks ago. They were way cheap (two bucks for the whole set I think). Two went neatly into little standard-size mats. One will be diary fodder. But the two that had enough artin' on them to take up the whole sheet were badly damaged from being pried off the backs of their cels. Pretty much valueless to a serious collector, not restore-able, but still the remnants of a once-proud civilization. What to do?

Well, Dick Blick had a canvas sale, so I grabbed two stretched canvases in whatever-size-they-are (9x12? 11x14? I forget) and some matte medium. Coated each canvas in the medium, then put down the drawings, letting the moisture help stretch out the crumpled bits and sticking the totally ripped-off bits back where they belonged, like a jigsaw.

The sketches are in pencil, with one or two colored pencil bits to indicate shading or whatever to the people who did the cels -- in this case red, yellow, a light blue, and an orangey thing. Not very bright, but I brought out the blue/yellow picture with some compatible pale blue acrylics and yellow Prismacolor (thanks, evil Cabal!). The orange and red one got tinted with yellow and gold mulberry paper. Mulberry paper is neat with matte medium -- it goes totally transparent, and you can also mush it up to disguise where the edge of the sketch meets the canvas if you like. Let that dry, then cream and yellow Prismacolor to lighten up some passages and ease the transitions in others. Apply a final coat of medium as a varnish, let it dry, and you have two pieces of scrap transformed into pop art for around ten bucks, ready to hang.

Le Grand Livre de Sailor Moon arrived today. I take back every rotten thing I've ever said about you.

Votre amie,

Ann

Sailor Moon gaming notebook. (I don't game, but I do like notebooks.) I mean, c'mon, when they practically order you to draw in the book...! Apologies to the 'Ferrets and WOFSers who've already had this inflicted on them.