Sir Bogard

... was absolutely positive about the fact that his royalty can fly.

I thought about painting a ridiculous dachshund (in German "Dackel" or..."Wiener") and seeing so many Dackel at the moment made it even worse.
Anybody interested in the steps? (Photoshop)

my book-addiction

... just made me order three new ones. honestly i have no idea how you can surive without an EC card AND no Amazon. Thanks god, amazon is still my best buddy when i want to get books.
The crappiest feeling is when you stand in a book-store and can't buy the one and only your soon to be favourite 4-hours-not-a-minute-longer lasting book you just found. ARGGG!!!

It happened last week and i was so frustrated that I was even more angry when the nice You-sure-you-don't-have-finanical-problems-person in my bank told me that of course my new EC card will take two more weeks. And all because the retarted guy from my last appointment forget to delete three old zombie cards still walking aroud in the bank system (but not in my pocket). One good reason to switch the bank and to make a mass-order online.

For those who really want to read good reviews and are interested in some gems follow the white rabbit.

My Top 5 (of all I have and i have... a lot):
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks Of Nature
How not to be popular (honestly, read it, the book is AWESOME)
The Gargoyle
Colors: a natural history of the palette (it's lovely how the author manages to zone out every 1,5 pages)
Kitchen

books I just read (cropped list because I couldn't remember all and some in German):
The Splendour Falls (if you mentally delete the last 100 pages it's good and you'll love Rhys)
Beautiful Creatures
A Great And Terrible Beauty (that one was okay but i 100%ly won't re-read it)
The Thornthwaite Inheritance (too short :((... )
Rubinrot
Smaragdgrün
---add tons of comics here... of course... after a book fair... i couldn't resist---
Fragile Eternity, Ink Exchange & Wicked Lovely (last one is still unread but I already peeked in)
and some more...

looking forward to read:
Shiver
An Abundance of Katherines
Intertwined
... i just hope those books will be good >.<

Nata is visiting me on Monday. I bet she's abusing me as her private library again. And since I know she's gonna read this: Honey, only the paperback. And you have to bring my babies back.

Anne

Ps. Anybody read some of the books I mentioned?

Brushes

Currently working on:

A small detail of a huge image. Anyways... some people always ask: What kind of brushes do you use.
Mostly it's this one:

and because I think everybody should start with a good brush and not millions of fancy textured brushes you can download this one here:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-2395666/brush.zip.html

I hope everybody knows how to install it. This one is mainly for pure painting. You can set the option and size as you want (I vary it every five seconds if needed). Just keep in mind that you need some more strokes to get smooth colors. I use it for my color moods and for all those annoying things that need a painted look.

I hope it's useful and that you enjoy painting with it.

farewell...

Ausnahmsweise mal ein Blogeintrag in Deutsch. Vor genau 2 Minuten habe ich nach .. ich glaube sieben Jahren meinen animexx account gelöscht.
Schlimm, ne?
Um ehrlich zu sein glaube ich, dass ich mir damit einen größeren Gefallen getan habe als mit dem letzten überteuerten noch nicht einmal getragenen Schuhen. :)
Animexx war gut um groß zu werden, aber jetzt bin ich 1,80m groß, 27 Jahre und ein paar zerdrückte Monate alt und kann auch ganz gut ohne. Ich habe mich meistens nur noch über die community aufgeregt, über Leute, über Einstellungen, über Großes und Kleines und noch viel mehr.
Ich habe lange gehadert, aber in den ersten drei Sekunden nach dem Löschen kam weder ein donnernder Blitz vom Himmel noch bekam ich vom Netbook einen tödlichen Stromschlag. Ergo: Scheint okay zu sein. Noch alles dran.

Für mich heißt es, dass ich in erster Linie wieder Blog- und Webseitenegoist sein darf. Sogar... Realitätsegoist (naja, da nicht ganz, aber ich bilde es mir gern ein). Keine skurilen Kommentare, nervenzehrende Dativ-oder Grammatikgemetzel und keine seltsamen Wortgebilde wie " Ist das liebe" mehr. Ehrlich Leute, das gibts nicht. Entweder: "Das ist so lieb" oder "ich finds total süß" aber kein " das ist so liebe"... oder hat da jemand einen Babelfish-Unfall mit "That's so lovely" gehabt? Nicht, dass ich ein wandelndes Wörtbuch wäre, aber... nee, das geht nicht. Da kräuseln sich meine Zehennägel hoch und verkriechen sich vor Schreck gleich wieder im Nagelbett.

So, ein feierliches Danke trotz kritischer Worte nach sieben Jahren an animexx und wir sehen uns... dort wohl nicht wieder. :)

Gute Nacht.

***short version in English***
I left a German art community after 7 years and deleted my acc. Nothing too important but something worth mentioning. (maybe)

Leftovers in SALE

all that's left... more information in my Deviantart journal

vanilla-strawberry ice cream...

and pure strawberry sorbet.

Hm... if making ice cream wouldn't take so long I'd do it more often. >.<
I wanted to prepare some figurines today but a call from my tax adviser brought me back into reality. "Miiiss Pätzke, you rrreaaly should send me yourrr paperrrs neext week!" (she's Russian I think o_o ).

Am i the only one having so much trouble doing all the paper work in time? I *hate* it. I wish some house elves would pop up right now. Uh!

unfinished....

can't see chubby fairies anymore and still no end in sight o_o

Funny thing: I recently got a lot of mails with "Hey, if you put this and that on your homepage and write things for our page we advertise you, so if you work for us you get more popular"
(subtitles: You work for us, you advertise our page and if somebody accidently stumbles over you on OUR homepage it's even better for you). Call me picky but those offers are weird.