cindy's cadlights 8g: on writing deadlines! :O

[metrokat]

that's wonderful! i'd encourage you to

keep going. love your pieces. and i call it

art therapy for a reason. ha! i love your use

of colors too.

 

also impressed by your gradations of gray

in the asian piece. that's something one has

to learn as a brush artist.

oh really? hmm, i enjoy value studies a lot and that paynes gray was great to work with.

This one was my fav from the series I did this summer. One is a photograph, the other is my painting.

[cindyp]

oh really? hmm, i enjoy value studies a lot and that paynes gray was great to work with.

This one was my fav from the series I did this summer. One is a photograph, the other is my painting.

 

wow! you're super talented! that's gorgeous!!

how long did you say you've been painting?? haha

[metrokat]

Thanks. Started painting in 1992. Took a 10+ yr hiatus before this summer. Dang, time flies.

[cindyp]

Thanks. Started painting in 1992. Took a 10+ yr hiatus before this summer. Dang, time flies.

 

i hope you get back to it. it was the same with

my writing. i didn't write all through my 20s, got back

to it in ealry 30s. your hiatus has been when i've been

learning! glad you picked up the brush and palette again

this past summer. you're a natural! (i could not do that

the last paintings you showed at all. amazing!)

[metrokat]

you're too kind, thank you.

[Dr.Brain Coral]

oh really? hmm, i enjoy value studies a lot and that paynes gray was great to work with.

This one was my fav from the series I did this summer. One is a photograph, the other is my painting.

Holy Cow, you have real talent Kat!!!

[Dr.Brain Coral]

TGIF friends!

 

here is my latest brush painting. our

teacher wanted us to paint red mountains

in celebration of autumn, but i just wasn't feeling

it. when i decided to switch to indigo, though, the

results were much better!

 

"Tranquil Heart."

I just saw this and Its Beautiful Cindy

[metrokat]

Holy Cow, you have real talent Kat!!!

thank you.

[cindyp]

I just saw this and Its Beautiful Cindy

 

thanks, doc! i love how this thread has

turned into jelly dendro + skinny goat headed gobies +

rad art gallery.

[intr3p1d]

this tank is so cool! I hope mine ends up looking half as good.

[cindyp]

this tank is so cool! I hope mine ends up looking half as good.

 

aww thanks. it's a new 8g, and i'm excited

to see it mature. yours looks great too! have

fun with it and good luck!!

[cindyp]

wave your jelly dendro tentacles like you just don't care!

 

 

[ABC]

I like the tank and the thread, it makes me jealous .

[pgrVII]

wave your jelly dendro tentacles like you just don't care!

 

 

This is cool dendros are awesome to watch sway.

[cindyp]

I like the tank and the thread, it makes me jealous .

 

that is such a compliment. thank you!

 

This is cool dendros are awesome to watch sway.

 

they really are. it's my favorite thing to look

at right now. i haven't touched it and i can't

but wonder how squidgy its jelly top feels!

[pgrVII]

 

that is such a compliment. thank you!

 

 

 

they really are. it's my favorite thing to look

at right now. i haven't touched it and i can't

but wonder how squidgy its jelly top feels!

Hahaha yea I hear ya

[cindyp]

my ycg is doing very well. it was eating

reef frenzy like a champ yesterday--loved it.

and seems to be eating everything else i'm

putting into the tank. i'm so relieved. he is

a curious animated fishie that swims around

a lot for not being floaty. (?)

 

in sad news, i have not seen my rainfordi goby

all morning. it had been coming out less and

less, and i think this might mean it has dieded.

five weeks in and over $100 spent on pods and

various foods to entice did not make up for my

/noob mistake. i feel terrible.

 

now i might have a rotting gobi in my tank, but

i'm not sure what i can do about that?

[kimberbee]

my ycg is doing very well. it was eating

reef frenzy like a champ yesterday--loved it.

and seems to be eating everything else i'm

putting into the tank. i'm so relieved. he is

a curious animated fishie that swims around

a lot for not being floaty. (?)

 

in sad news, i have not seen my rainfordi goby

all morning. it had been coming out less and

less, and i think this might mean it has dieded.

five weeks in and over $100 spent on pods and

various foods to entice did not make up for my

/noob mistake. i feel terrible.

 

now i might have a rotting gobi in my tank, but

i'm not sure what i can do about that?

Awesome to hear about your little clown goby!!

 

Sorry to hear about your rainfordi. Likely (hopefully) your clean up crew will help clean up if you can't find the body.

[cindyp]

despite my best efforts, i've lost the rainfordi goby.

last week, she stopped coming out more.

midweek, she hadn't come out all day, but after midnight,

i saw her partially sticking out from beneath one of

the rocks. i thought she was dead, and got some chopsticks

to pluck her out. but when i touched her, she scurried

back under the rock.

 

so sad.

 

i haven't seen her since.

 

on the weekend, after being MIA for 3 days,

i tried to find her in her favorite rock. but no luck.

 

NANOSAPIEN will be proud of me, i cleaned the

sand for the first time with my vac gravel cleaner.

it wasn't as hard as i thought, and i got a lot of the

grunge in the sand out.

 

i'll be testing levels before my next weekly water change.

 

in happier news, the YCG is eating happily. he especially

likes reef frenzy. here he is lounging on one of his favorite

spots, the bright orange mushroom.

 

[kimberbee]

Poor goby...

 

But glad everything else is going well!! Your ycg has made me want one when I get a second tank!!

[cindyp]

i picked up my first hammer from weekend ASD sale!

 

what was featured was a more neon green hammer,

but for some reason, i kept being drawn to the more

purple ones with green, instead of vice versa? maybe

the neon green would have given more pop in the tank?

but i like the purple. will from ASD told me the neon greens

are from austrailia and the one that i chose are from indo?

 

 

(and yes, i got rid of my bleached gsp )

 

and because i still cannot get enough of my gelaitnous

dendro--i love feeding him! though i did see a youtube

video of a similar dendro eating a green clown goby bigger

than my ycg in tank! excuse the bits of weed or whatever

on tank, i left them on thinking it might help my rainfordi, but

alas...

 

[FlowerMama]

yeah, dendros are wonderful to photograph, all wispy!

[cindyp]

yeah, dendros are wonderful to photograph, all wispy!

 

they really are so fun to watch in all their manifestations

througout the day. it is the grabbiest eater i have, even

more so than my flower nems. it'll take food and plop it

right into its mouth fast.

 

i still don't know what the gelatinous top feels like.

 

i am going to imagine like mochi. (rice ball, ha!)

[Sk8n Reefer]

Nice hammer- looks like a healthy piece?

[cindyp]

Nice hammer- looks like a healthy piece

 

thank you! i've honestly only have praise

for ASD corals. my neon orange hammer already

sprouted a baby. all my flower nems are doing great.

and love this dendro. hopefully hammer is happy.

i've got him up high away from everyone else, since

my tank is so small. ha!