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GET ME ANOTHER REFILL FAST!!!
Caffeine Crazy
…GGGGRRRRRR!!!!
Lack of sleep…Ugh, kind of makes you crazy. Crazy enough to eat your own coffee mug when the mug’s frigging empty? I believe so. Well… your teeth are already grinding, your already a nervous wreck, there’s not enough coffee to fuel your self. You might just black out. And when you black out you might just come to and find…that you got so crazy that you ate your coffee mug!!!! It could happen. Huh? Yeah, it could.
Sunday
it's just a pear. and one that's been eaten.
It’s Sunday. and it’s Pear day.
Well, I actually had a thunderdome day (thursday’s are usually thunderdome days) where I would make room for overindulgence. Last time I did cheese, and now…it’s the pears.
I’m obsessed with obsessing over things.
So…don’t be surprised if I do some more drawings of cheese and then some more drawings of pears, with …..overindulgent stories.
-CM
Happy cakes...happy cakes...ah, happy cakes....
Everyone loves happy cakes! I think any cake really. I have never seen a cake that wasn’t happy. Or didn’t make someone happy (unless it’s fruit cake…eeeh). If I could perfect one thing (besides drawing and painting) it would be baking and decorating cakes. I think that would be a fun job. Especially at one of those specialty cake shops where you can really let the creative juices fly. But as it is, I’m stuck at a lousy job being less and less creative. It’s pretty much boring. Oh my gosh, it’s boring. All I can think are crappy thoughts while I’m at work. But…I am working on the less crappy thoughts. So I try to interact with my surroundings or jot down little drawing ideas that pop in my head, code mush stuff instead of the lame stuff. But I noticed yesterday as I was working on paperwork, everyone was congregating in the break room. And you know what they were congregating around? CAKE. a really large, colorful, someone-really-took-their-time-on cake. It was HUGE. And everyone who would walk by the break room had to stop and get them a slice of cake. Even if they were busy, had 5 minutes left on their shift, even the managers couldn’t help themselves. They were getting them a slice of cake before it was all gone.
And that’s not why I was thinking of happy cakes.
Just earlier that morning, I was writing in my journal. I was trying to shake the Monday blues, so I started drawing cakes. Trying to cheer myself up and not write something that was going to throw me in a panic and make me dwell on it all day. But I can deal with dwelling on cakes.
I just thought that was a funny coincidence.
Thunderdome of...CHEESE!
Yes, that’s correct. It’s a thunderdome of cheese. It has erupted from the boils of the earth! Just when you thought that the moon was a wheel of cheese, well, that’s not entirely true. You see, the moon was created from the earth. And if the moon is a wheel of cheese, then the earth most be made of these cheese stuffs. It has come thundering up! probably in the middle of Wisconsin’s dairy farms. Yes, well, how did you think they made such wonderful cheese? From cows? Huh…well, you thought WRONG. It’s earth cheese. And it’s gooood.
It's no longer true. Cows do not produce the best cheese.
-Mooo?
Say Hello To Miriam!
So…I’ve been developing new code mush characters. I don’t have that many. I mean, some have kind of been tucked away in old paper mushes where they might have only appeared in one or two issues, or scribbled on some desk in high school, ahh…taped to a sign post and never to be seen from again. But that’s okay because I’m not trying to relive that time in my life, but trying to develop the ever evolving (but more or less the same) code mush. Oh, so what.
Miriam is evolving into a new character of mine. She is a crafty person, always crocheting. She even has yarn in her hair. And…that’s pretty much all that I have time to discuss about her. Or maybe…that’s all that I really know about her. More will be revealed later! I might even show you some of her crafty work.
Dreaming of fish
A dream I had of salmon swimming at my feet
I think in my last post I wrote something about feet. Yes, I’ve been working on sketching a pen and ink (possibly add color later) about a dream I had several years ago that has pretty much stuck with me. It was in Alaska (or somewhere up north, but for some reason Alaska sounds right) I was standing in some still clear water (could have been an estuary), and all of a sudden thousands of salmon were swimming past my legs and I could feel them kissing my feet. It felt completely real and exciting. Then all of a sudden I started swimming with them and ended up in the ocean where I was met by these whales flapping their enormous tail fins in the water. I wasn’t even scared by them, I just started playing with them. When I woke up, I felt this blanket of peace. I wanted to go back to sleep and relive that dream. I still do. Sometimes when I am stressing out, I will think of that dream.
I have dreams of north. Northern Lights, snow, and water. I used to be very big on dream interpretation, but as of yet, the only dreams I have are really about stuff that I was thinking about before I went to bed. Or the tv show I was watching before I went to bed, hah. But, I don’t really have dreams like that anymore, or that often. But, I know it’s just a rough sketch (all of my stuff are just sketches really). I hope that soon by the start of the new year (that’s my goal) to start selling some cards and illustration stuff on my etsy site. Wish me luck, I am not very confident in my art. And I do want to do digital stuff soon. I just need to get my butt in gear.
A Giant Foot! AAHH!!
Yeah...it's a scary FOOT.
Well, code mush doesn’t have much to say except FOOT. I have been practicing drawing feet for a painting i’m working on. so far, I just keep drawing a foot a day, and the only thing that I can see wrong is that I keep drawing from the same angle. I need to start drawing looking down. That will come next in the foot practicing. ahh…
Happy Halloween!
one eyed jack-o-lantern
Happy Halloween from Code Mush. I guarantee there will be some one eyed crazy lookin’ jack-o-lanterns out there, so watch out!
Fuel
Fuel
Books fuel my imagination. I know if I read at least an hour a day, I have better sketch book drawings and ideas. Of course, also if I practice more drawing I do too. This is a drawing from my sketchbook. I wanted to create the look like the books were alive and dancing inside my head.
Code Mush 