~KestrelShatterwind

My recent posting is up for sale here: [link]

Bid so I can feed my geckos..!

If you remember my entry, "Gecko Keeper", I am planning on having 15 high quality art glicee prints made of this drawing. I will -NOT- be doing this if I do not get a good enough response. As the link explains, the print making process and the prints themselves are expensive to produce. If you would like to reserve a copy of this artwork, please send me an email to sarahw@iastate.edu. More information here: [link]

I'm going to be utilizing the Repashy site for updates involving geckos and my artwork (especially in its intermediate stages). If anyone is interested at all in seeing progressive updates on my academic work or any updates on my collection of sticky toed friends, this would be the place to go!

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I reccomend the Repashy forums for anybody interested in geckos, too. Hoorah for geckos!

I bought a new monitor! it's a 22 inch flatscreen LCD thingamabob that my boyfriend picked out for me. It's huge and a fantastic upgrade from the 15 inch 17 year old gateway box model that weighs 150 pounds. I'm so essited. E'rthang's soooo huuuuge *_* Shineystuffs

School is in session, thus the boringness of no posts... sigh

I just spent a massive amount of cash on stuff to build Lebkuchen's naturalistic enclosure in the new cage my mommy got me for christmas. I'm testing out whether or not it's possible for me to smear silicone onto plexiglass and effectively/cleanly remove a desired amount/shape from it with a razor.. This probably isn't going to work, but here goes, eh? Also, man is it hard to find decent plants at this time of year. I want some of the simplest plants out there (pothos, bromeliads, snake plant) and nobody seems to have any that aren't huge 8 foot tall specimens of doom. rargh.

In case anybody is interested, here's some new photos of the gecko gang (because geckos rox my sox):

Voorhees-

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Spatzle-

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Herr Fleck (AKA "Stubbs")-

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Lebkuchen-

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Firstly, it was really weird to stop by my own gallery and have 410 messages, lol. Thanks alot for a second daily deviation! But on an older piece? Tres bizarre! Thanks all the same. :>

It's really kind of interesting that one of my images containing the most amount of published thought on the Thevat world was made a DD... I've been mulling over some more ideas about Kestrel's world for the past few months, but my classes have been so utterly and inhumanely brutal on me I haven't had much time to do anything :\ .... Basically, I've started writing an illustrated novel in my head. Here's some of my newer thoughts:

"Kestrel's world has been fleshed out with a bigger map, more characters, protagonists, and antagonists. Kestrel's people live on a set of temperate-climate islands which are all very small, a few miles across. They dwell mostly around the pale-sanded beaches and amongst the trees in the inland forest. They are a simple but sophisticated people, curious and social, spending their time honing their relationships with their gods, improving their method of life, and entertaining themselves through philosophy, literature, magic, and the arts.
However, all will not remain at peace. Farther up north lies a mountainous, ruthless landscape, inhabited by a much inhospitable race of hooved creatures. Bulky and relatively hostile-looking, this race of beast is tormented by a lust for combat and destruction. They worship a heretic that proclaims there exists a god that rewards them for the slaying of other lesser creatures.. Of course, their race lies at the pinnacle. Led by a grotesque and ruthless king, they have pounded their way through the mountain region, and have begun a hostile takeover of all surrounding lands. Unbeknownst to the Thevats, whom are silently enjoying their small island paradise, trouble looms above them..."

I started working a job at the local gamers here in Ames ( [link] ). During lulls in work, I have been scratching out sketches of Kestrel wearing light battle-armor, along with a few small, concealed weapons, such as dirks and throwing knives, along with her staff. I will be posting up a few more images that illustrate my ideas, and pretty soon, I want to start making full page images that correspond to small chapters in a written story with chronological events.