Nothing much today

[avram]

Didn’t do much today. Woke around 9:30 AM, meant to go to the gym, but I shut my eyes for just a few more minutes and opened them up again well past noon. This probably had something to do with having stayed up to 3 AM last night. Probably shouldn’t do that.

Had pizza for breakfast, voyaged into Manhattan, picked up a tube of permanent sap green acrylic paint. Winsor Newton, because I liked the sound of their pigment mix better than Liquitex’s, and didn’t you know that different manufacturers often use different mixes of pigments for paints that have the same name? I also got a new cheap Chinese brush.

Had an iced tea at Starbucks and did some lackluster sketching. Stopped off at Forbidden Planet and bought 4 Eyes #3, and now need to get hold of #1 and #2. These are anthology collections by a small group of Belgian cartoonists, and I can’t seem to get through to their website.

Did some grocery shopping on the way home, got a 100-bag box of Lipton teabags for $2, and realized that this means I can make iced tea for 16¢ per 16-oz serving, which beats the hell out of the $2 I paid at Starbucks for a big cup half-full of ice. (Though Starbucks has better air conditioning.)

Did a little painting this evening, but it didn’t quite work. I need to cut down some of that illustration board and try again with real transparent paints.