What ol' Santa is bringin for you ?

codeGlaze · Post by **codeGlaze** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 10:14 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Nothing, I'm a grown-ass man and if I want something I'll buy it myself. Although I did buy a pair of comfy slippers last week.

That doesn't stop wives and muddahs from brow beating you into giving them things to procure for you.

I got the Fallout bomb and pipBoy >_>

I lerv them.

Ancient History wrote:Santa brought books, including a history of druids I've been wanting, a Cthulhu ornament and a Cthulhu for President t-shirt, and a 16-second video clip of my brother singing along to a Frozen musical greeting card.

I'm curious about the druid book.
I thought you and Frank have written of druids as neo-religion nonsense.

Koumei wrote:[...] and a variety of delicious chocolate. Also some tupperware containers for my paints[...]

Have you ever made a cheap-as-dirt-but-effective wet palette for your paints?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 10:23 pm

codeGlaze wrote:
Ancient History wrote:Santa brought books, including a history of druids I've been wanting, a Cthulhu ornament and a Cthulhu for President t-shirt, and a 16-second video clip of my brother singing along to a Frozen musical greeting card.
I'm curious about the druid book.
I thought you and Frank have written of druids as neo-religion nonsense.

Blood & Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain. And they mostly are neo-religious nonsense. The thing about druids is that we have so few historical sources on them, including archaeological, but everybody and their brother has hung their ideas of what druids were and what druidism was and is, and this book talks about all that.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:42 am

codeGlaze wrote: Have you ever made a cheap-as-dirt-but-effective wet palette for your paints?

Kind of. I consume quite a bit of custard and yoghurt, in the plastic tubs. I use the plastic lids of those as pallets, but not the "damp paper" kind. I just put a bit of paint on it, then a little water and mix it in.

codeGlaze · Post by **codeGlaze** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:54 am

Koumei wrote:
codeGlaze wrote: Have you ever made a cheap-as-dirt-but-effective wet palette for your paints?
Kind of. I consume quite a bit of custard and yoghurt, in the plastic tubs. I use the plastic lids of those as pallets, but not the "damp paper" kind. I just put a bit of paint on it, then a little water and mix it in.

My wife ran across a dude that converted a little sandwich sized one into a wet palette. It was crazy easy. I forget why it's useful. I presume you know, considering you've been into this stuff much longer.

But it only took a bit of wax paper and like... 10 minutes to accomplish.