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Cake day: February 18th, 2024

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  • No. But 2024, the 25th of July is clumsy both spoken and written.

    July 25th, 2024 is okay but gives off middle child vibes.

    25th of July, 2024 is ordered small to big, rolls off the tongue and when written nicely seperates both sets of numbers for ease of readability.

    The only other alternative I will accept is Julian dates. Today is Day 26 of 2025.







  • A vortex mixer is definitely on my list. Probably going to be a while as I need a new wet palette. My homemade palette just isn’t cutting it anymore. It’s been great to learn with and practice with but I can feel its limitations now. The vortex is the next stop after that because I can see issues arising with badly mixed paints on a few of my test paints.

    I’ll have to see if I can find a non-amazon version or a suitable alternative. I try to mostly shop domestic manufacture and if not possible I avoid American or Chinese manufacture. Which is frustrating as a Canadian.




  • Thanks boss!

    Honestly I wish I could tell you. My primer layer looked pretty good to start. I think I probably haven’t mixed my paints well enough. I don’t have a vortex or mixing beads in my pots so I have to give them the ol’ shake-a shake-a.

    Could also be a side effect of my paints being too thinned down. Definitely something I want to figure out as I proceed.

    EDIT: Okay, so I’ve actually gone to take a look at the model and then looked through my camera roll. My phone does some weird scaling that causes a fuzzy artifact on all my pictures when I look closely. That may be what we’re seeing.

    In person I don’t seem to have any of the grit we see here.