An observation.

[winneganfake]

Sadly, The Book of Lost Hours utterly fails to work as a chick magnet.

"Here, look at my book full of insane artwork, shiny bits, and a working clock." just doesn't have the same ring as "my etchings."

That said though, I'm more and more convinced that I made something with a bit of a Lovecraftian nature. It refuses to let itself be sold until the people who're supposed to see have seen it, if that makes any sense. And I think I'm willing to let it- the reactions I keep getting from people are certainly worth it.


And the real purpose of this post? NEW AVATAR. Courtesy of blakthorne. Am I not truly sexy?

Comments

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

There's the numeric magic, which goes two different ways, and then the nomenclative magic, and then the lost objects. I tried to hide as much as I could.

...Not to mention the three hours that have hidden underpainting.

[domestinatrix.livejournal.com]

Now I need more.

I think it was the hidden under painting that really made me salivate. Obviously I didn't have enough time to really dive into it while I needed to pay attention to other matters, but the initial hit went straight to the back of my brain. I really wanted to dig around in it to taste all the layers, but then I wouldn't have gotten anything else done.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to disappoint you I think- the underpainting's truly hidden. In one case, it's flat enough that there's no texture difference from the rest of that hour, in another, it's sealed in the middle of said hour, and in the final case, it is positioned in such a way that it canot be seen without destroying the hour it's part of. Now that I look back at it, I really did get obsessed with some of the weird details I placed in there.

[domestinatrix.livejournal.com]

All I know is that there were bits I could sort of see and wanted to look at more closely, and that it radiated some sort of energy I wanted a bowl full of. Whether or not that had to do with the underpainting, you're the one who made it the way it is, so you can't deny you believe it works. I think I can't continue to discuss this in an open forum for risk of sounding all woo-woo.