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Subject: Escavian Coastal Red Pine
Experiment: Painting scenery with lineart.
Time: 2 hr
Comments: I could agonize on this longer but my stomach hurts and I want to go home and rest. I've had a bad two weeks - not only have I had evil insomnia, but I've also had a pretty sore tummy, so I want to eat before it gets painful. Tomorrow I'm going hiking, so that should help too. (Also with my storyboard, which I've been agonizing about.)

This will probably end up being an illustration for the project I'm working on.

Coastal Red Pine trees (another example of parallel evolution) are one of my favourite creations for Rimer. After deciding that yes, it was theoretically possible to have a red pine tree (and hey, it's another world, different plant rules may apply) I threw them into the manuscript of Ashes of Hope. They're inspired, a bit grimly, by a certain infestation of a little bastard of an animal called a pine beetle, which is the scourge of my home province's forests. Pine beetles are only really killed off by good cold snaps - -30C - and we haven't had many of those in the past decade or so, so the pesky beetles are spreading. Why are these stupid bugs so important? Because they kill our pine trees, which turn scarlet, then die, becoming kindling for forest fires. (One reason British Columbia is a venerable torch every summer. STILL I'd rather deal with forest fires than a volcano eruption or earthquake. *shudders* You know you live in Vancouver when you only have to mention 'the big one' and everyone knows what you're talking about. It's predicted that within this century Vancouver as well as everything else touching the Jaun de Fuca fault line will experiance one helluva bad earthquake, the sort that can flatten cities.) This is one reason I want to leave Vancouver. The earthquake might not effect us as much as cities like Los Angeles, but we're probably going to have at least one nasty tsunami. I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!

So anyway, there's my paranoid rant (and crappy picture) for the day.

Speedie of the Week Gallery: [link]

Also Shown on my blog!
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Look forwards to next week's speedie. Updates every friday! See gallery link above for details.

(c) Rosanna P. Brost All Rights Reserved

Description
Subject: Escavian Coastal Red Pine
Experiment: Painting scenery with lineart.
Time: 2 hr
Comments: I could agonize on this longer but my stomach hurts and I want to go home and rest. I've had a bad two weeks - not only have I had evil insomnia, but I've also had a pretty sore tummy, so I want to eat before it gets painful. Tomorrow I'm going hiking, so that should help too. (Also with my storyboard, which I've been agonizing about.)

This will probably end up being an illustration for the project I'm working on.

Coastal Red Pine trees (another example of parallel evolution) are one of my favourite creations for Rimer. After deciding that yes, it was theoretically possible to have a red pine tree (and hey, it's another world, different plant rules may apply) I threw them into the manuscript of Ashes of Hope. They're inspired, a bit grimly, by a certain infestation of a little bastard of an animal called a pine beetle, which is the scourge of my home province's forests. Pine beetles are only really killed off by good cold snaps - -30C - and we haven't had many of those in the past decade or so, so the pesky beetles are spreading. Why are these stupid bugs so important? Because they kill our pine trees, which turn scarlet, then die, becoming kindling for forest fires. (One reason British Columbia is a venerable torch every summer. STILL I'd rather deal with forest fires than a volcano eruption or earthquake. *shudders* You know you live in Vancouver when you only have to mention 'the big one' and everyone knows what you're talking about. It's predicted that within this century Vancouver as well as everything else touching the Jaun de Fuca fault line will experiance one helluva bad earthquake, the sort that can flatten cities.) This is one reason I want to leave Vancouver. The earthquake might not effect us as much as cities like Los Angeles, but we're probably going to have at least one nasty tsunami. I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!

So anyway, there's my paranoid rant (and crappy picture) for the day.

Speedie of the Week Gallery: [link]

Also Shown on my blog!
[link]

Look forwards to next week's speedie. Updates every friday! See gallery link above for details.

(c) Rosanna P. Brost All Rights Reserved