You know you eat too often at the drive-thru...

...when the cashier asks you to tell your husband that they changed their sizes on curly fries, so he should order the child's size now instead of small the next time he brings the kids through.

Queen of the Jungle

I finally finished the Jungle Queen mini I've been working on all summer. Here's the final result:


I decided to keep the base minimalistic and not decorate with fake earth or shrubbery. I like the simplistic feel of it. I also experimented with a new way to hold the mini down on the wood. I used a combination of putty and rubber cement.

If anyone's interested in more details of the painting process I kept track of it over on my painting blog over here.

Hawksbill's Art Projects

Here's the latest on my art projects. The final versions of my dice towers, based on my own design using PowerPoint:
If anyone would like to make their own towers using my design, just let me know and I'll send you the PowerPoint file.

And the final version of my latest mini, the Queen of the Jungle:

This figure also came with a leopard that I have to paint, but it is still sitting on my shelf.