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It\u2019s the Year of the Dragon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019ve thought of a couple of goals that to add to the new year resolutions. Yeah 1 month in\u2026 But who cares? Chinese New Year resolutions maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Keep the unread email count low, below 100 as much as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been clearing my mails a lot more, but I didn\u2019t over the CNY holidays and now it\u2019s over 200 unread mails now\u2026 Opps. Gotta par that down soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Finish a Khadi fatbook. It\u2019s a nice, fat book. But it\u2019s not *that* many pages. If I use up 2 or 3 pages per weekend, I should be able to finish one this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Work on finishing that Nerdforge sketchbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reality is that that sketchbook has too many pages, and unless I use a page everyday, I\u2019m not gonna be able to finish it this year. And finishing it this year isn\u2019t really the goal either\u2026 But I\u2019ll work on it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that\u2026 Well I can\u2019t think of much else. I\u2019ve already got the rest covered previously, I think. I definitely want to keep using up all my stock of watercolor paper. It\u2019s always nice to finish *something*. Whether it be a stack of paper, or a sketchbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The email count thing is something that I\u2019ve wanted to do since the start of the year, and have been doing it pretty well since Jan. No more 999+ mails again, I hope. Clearing mail is much quicker on the gmail app, except also not really because of the stupid lack of navigation options within the mail itself, at least not that I\u2019ve been able to figure out thus far in the iOS app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finally got back to using my supplies again. Did I mention it? I think not. I cleared out my room big time. Massive spring cleaning. Not that it\u2019s really clean now, far from it. But I threw out so much stuff. You can\u2019t imagine how much sh*t there was in my room. There\u2019s still so much stuff on my other desk\u2026 But at least I put away the iMac on the desk I\u2019ve been using as my main for many years now\u2026 And now I have a lot more space for art and stuff. Still not quite enough, but much improved from before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finally looked through my watercolors yesterday and found like four pans with mold and scrubbed off the mold and added clove oil to them. So far so good with the clove oil, no more mold, even on the worse offenders. Which is a huge relief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practiced doing some dragons today, and ended up with the above photo as my \u2018final product\u2019. It was fun\u2026 But now I\u2019m back to easy roses\u2026 Well been trying out different brushes though. Actually liking those natural squirrel hair brushes a lot more now, though I do wish they were stiffer. But seeing as how much water the khadi paper needs\u2026 Yeah I\u2019m definitely liking them more now. In fact the dragon was done with the natural squirrel hair brush. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will probably give the goat hair one another try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hmm\u2026 I suppose that\u2019s all for now? Oh yeah, I put together a \u2018bed arting kit\u2019 yesterday, haven\u2019t actually used it yet. Maybe on weekdays? Then I can do random sketches in the NerdForge sketchbook and inch closer to finishing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, till next time! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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