Full isolation, rear cam, markise, bicycle rack, diesel heater, solar panel, lithium battery, booster, mains charger, compressor fridge, dimmable led lights, USB connections and plenty of storage room in Multiplex wooden furnitures, including a foldable bed and a removable sink with a water pumper. I also include an amount of extras like moskito nets, wheel levelers, air vents for the windows...
The advertisement is in German as I posted it where I live, but I can happily provide a full text in English and answer inquiries in Catalan, Spanish, English and German.
I haven't painted much lately. I mostly sit down and watch 1980s videos on youtube about vintage computing (e.g. the "Computer Chronicles" news show, that was apparently shooting very close to where I was living for years in California, but didn't know about it). I've decided that if this was 1977, and money wasn't an obstacle, I'd get a TRS-80 computer rather than an Apple II. And that I wouldn't get a PC until 1984, until the Tandy 1000 came out. In between, I'd get probably an Atari 800, and a C64. By 1985, I'd get an Atari ST, an Amiga, and a Mac 512k. Then an Apple IIgs in 1986, and a NeXT in 1988. After that, in the 1990s, Windows takes hold and it all becomes more mature in terms of tech, and honestly, kinda boring. The early days of personal computing were the exciting ones!
The only exception I'd do is to get a BeBox in 1996, which ran my favorite OS of all time, BeOS. In fact, that's how I met my husband, he was a graphics/kernel/build engineer for Be Inc, and I was a news reporter, and games porter for BeOS. Shame how this amazing OS went down, with Microsoft killing it.
As for Linux, I never found it interesting in its heydays of late 1990s to early 2000s (despite reporting on it a lot for OSNews.com, and testing/reviewing every distro under the sun), because it never worked well on the desktop back then. Not by my standards anyway, for a desktop market that was already maturing fast with Win2000/XP, and OSX. It just never worked right apart from the server sector back then. Linux is more mature now on the desktop, which is why I use Linux a lot more now, than then. I have 5-6 computers dedicated to it (mostly Debian or Ubuntu -- but I'll be moving Ubuntu to Mint), only 1 Windows, and 2 Mac.
"Cleaning the Pond". Another cottagecore themed watercolor painting, painted with handmade paints. I avoided using cool colors in it, to give it a vintage vibe.
I had fun painting this one. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and I love painting such themes. I probably romanticize it in my head a lot due to movies etc, because my Christmases in Greece as a kid were not notable. I had more fun with my husband's family in France. Snow and all. Northern European (I've also lived in UK and Germany in my 20s) and American Christmases felt definitely more Christmas-y to me.
Note: I did two paintings yesterday, one was this one, and the other one was the knight that I posted earlier today. I had to delete the knight one because a cache bug deteriorated the quality of the image after the uploading process. I might post it again in a few months, after I properly scan it, when I have all my gear intact in Greece.
In a cabin nestled deep within the woods,
A man in slumber, dreaming as he should,
When in the hush of night, a sound arose,
Three foxes' whispers, in a tale they chose.
Their voices painted stories upon the air,
Of ancient forests and adventures rare,
The man, now stirred from sleep's soft embrace,
Joined the foxes' dance in that quiet place.
When I create narrative illustrations like this one, it's just my inner desire to write & illustrate a children's book. I just wish that AI hadn't destroyed that market segment. Regardless, I might take the plunge and try it...
Back to the cottagecore style, using only 3 colors in the gouache palette (raw umber, burnt sienna, and indigo), plus a bit of yellow colored pencil for the jacket. It's unreal how much more cohesive a piece looks when the palette is so limited. But while this can be a great tool, helping artists to not mess up the colors, it also betrays weakness. Getting very colorful and fully saturated colors to work cohesively in a piece (as seen in some uber-modern pieces), is an art in itself. An art I haven't mastered yet...
This one took me a while to complete, but I enjoyed the process. It has gouache, watercolor and collage elements on it. I hope next year to start a vegetable garden on our new home.
A New Job for Electric Vehicles: Powering Homes During Blackouts (www.nytimes.com)
Some energy experts say battery-powered vehicles will increasingly help keep the lights on and support electric grids, rather than straining them.