Yes, I'm here again a 5 til 2:00am... well, approximately anyways. Looking forward to working with clay tomorrow. Wonderful, glorious clay... if only the colored glazes and slips would turn out the way I want them to... le sigh.

Lately I've been barraged with online solicitors. Too bad there's no way of filtering out just them, and not the new people I might meet along the way.

Really, why are people so interested in the English Renaissance? The only great thing that came out of that era was a love for the theatre and poetry, and Shakespeare being it's zenith. Heck, it wasn't even called the Renaissance period till a hundred years after Elizabeth I expired. The true Renaissance occured in Italy, where the minds of DiVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and the benefactor Medici reshaped the whole world's views of life. The artists explored the relatively new laws of perspective and proportion, gaining a better understanding of the way the mind works. Minstrals and such musicians sung of the daily experience, while composers dreamt of symphonies which rivaled the echoing halls of heaven. The wisdom of the Grecian mind was the new-found knowledge of the day, and despite the restraints of the church science and mathematics flourished. Personal hygiene and St. Thomas' Fire aside, it must have been a wonderous and enchanting time. I wish I could visit Venice sometime.

Damn, drawing the outfit of a saloon girl is harder than I expected. (Working on the new title pic for the up and coming layout).

Erm, yeah.