Black Is The Color

I'm in love with this song that came on my Blackmore's Night station on Pandora yesterday... the song is by Gaelic Storm and it's called "Black Is The Color". It's soooooo pretty, but I can't embed the video on here. Lame. Goddamn it's a gorgeous song! I love Gaelic Storm :) The song is terribly romantic, too. Ahhhhh, very artistically inspiring.

Let's see... I dyed my hair last night. This time, I followed someone's tip online of mixing conditioner in with the color while it sets. KI did that and I guess it all worked out slightly better this time. The color is pretty vivid for only being left on for a little less than an hour. I also kept spraying the chunks with water while the color was setting. That might have helped, too. Let's see how long the color lasts!

Today I went to Michaels and bought a pack of semi-cheap brushes... they're synthetic sable, nothing all that great. I prefer golden taklon, but that's a bit more expensive :P I did buy two nice golden taklon detail brushes that are tiny as hell, but totally worth it. Then I bought a few big basic tubes of dark red (It's not that much deeper than the crimson I already have), prism violet (Because making my own purple was getting annoying), a not shitty green called Hooker's Green (I HATED the blue shade green I've had for years... plus this one was called Hooker. Ha ha.), and burnt umber (My burnt sienna is lighter than I like to use). Yay paint! I also got rid of the shoe box and put all my pain and brushes in an old purse I used in middle school, ha ha. Hopefully this'll make transporting the supplies easier in my clothes bag.

Then Ian and I went out and feasted on delicious wings :) I love me some good nomming! I love afternoons with him... hell, I love all the time with him! I do wish I could have stayed out, but shit, I got so much work to get done because the asshole gave me Minecraft to distract myself with :P

On the plus, I got a good little chunk of my painting done last night. I guess I'm doing "Dream Within A Dream", because I have a blueish girl floating up into the orange and purple clouds. So majestic. I painting the girl and the clouds, but something needs to go on in the foreground. Shit! Mrs. K's teachings are rubbing off on me... now I'm concerned with my grounds! The poem talks about the speaker being by the ocean, so I might paint waves. Goddamn! I always paint oceans, and I hate painting them! I wish I knew why :P It's Nightwish's fault, with all the ocean motifs and Dark Passion Play and blahhh! Oh well, time to work on government! Kill me.

xx Her Lips Are Like Some Roses Fair Marz