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And I can fix all of your problems.

Now, click on the Comments link below and tell me about your childhood.

A club: SurrealSociety
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It's like a yellow mist, that Deviant Smell.  It cuts like acid but lies so wispy, so soft like kitty tendrils of air in pillows, seeping into the cracks the rocks the earth.  I can smell it now.  Can you?

You are crouching in a beautiful green meadow.  The sky above is blue, flawless, deep.  It is almost too warm, but a lone tree, green, proud, gives you shade, so cool.  You are shitting quietly into the grass.  A bird chirps above somewhere.  He is shitting too, in that white liquid way birds do.  The breeze is like a song, a beautiful song of lost memories just oh-so barely unremembered of warmth and happiness.  The breeze is like the sun, so crisp, so nice.  The leaves, each one, rattles on a branch.  Together they make the tree whisper.  Saying your name.  Hello.  Hello.

But there's something else in the air now.  It smells yellow, and not in the way that the sun is yellow, golden-yellow and beautiful and life giving.  It smells deviant.  Like art.  You can feel it, surging, swelling.  Steaming.  You urinate against the tree and then turn and run like hell.  We must escape the Deviant Smell, you and I.

-Dave Gauer
18 March, 2011

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Ahoy, fellow Deviants!  I've got a strong feeling that this will be a good year to be making some art.  I got some new brushes for Christmas.  Can't wait to explore more watercolor.

Of course, I'll probably continue to do the occasional stippling.  

Here's my question to you all: what do you hope to accomplish this year, art-wise?  For me, it's the watercolor thing, mixing it with ink, chasing a style I'm not sure I'll ever master.

Drop a comment here on this journal entry; let me know what you're shooting for.  Then start posting some Deviations.  Let's get to where we want to be.  Oh, and keep me on track, too.  If you don't see me get any better this year, hold me accountable.

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Unlike last year, I've been pretty steady with the art so far.  Trying new techniques and styles has helped keep my interest up.

How have you been doing?    Are you creating as much as you want?  Do you feel you're getting better?  

Add a comment to this journal and make my life a little more interesting!  I'd really like to hear how my fellow deviants are feeling about their art progress this year.

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Well, I've finally managed my first Policy Violation.  If you've seen my gallery before, you may remember the drawing called "Treejob."   It was a suggestive drawing involving...a tree.  It was provocative, I'll admit.  But I was a bit surprised by its removal, particularly after being up for over a year and having received so many positive comments about it.

Oh well, I'm not going to fight the Violation or the removal.  Nor am I going to gnash my teeth about it.  I still have the original (along with plenty of drawings I know better than to post on dA).  I walk a fine line perhaps, and I'm sure this won't be the last image removed from my account.  I just hope they don't take away some of my better drawings.  Heh.

On a different note, I'm fooling around with watercolor now.  Strictly experimentation at this point.  One of them has come out interesting enough to post.

Hopefully there will be more.  After I've wasted a couple watercolor blocks, I'll know whether to pursue that or just go back to drawing with lots of dots.

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