Masking fluid is, essentially, liquid rubber. It adheres to the paper and protects an area from watercolour. When the paint dries, you simply remove it. There are different types of masking fluid, like the ones you apply with a brush. But if you’re like me and want to cut the crap with RUINING BRUSHES: look no further. I exclusively use Molotow masking liquid pens now.
You don’t need sacrificial brushes. It’s tinted blue so you can see where the hell it is. The future is here.
Rolls on like a kickass pen
Let it dry, slap on your watercolour
Coax it off with an eraser
Bam look at that. Perfect for those details you want to stay white. Not recommended for application over large areas. Available on Amazon.
You can regrow scallions by leaving an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water in a well-lit room.
Garlic
When garlic begins to sprout, you can put them in a glass with a little water and grow garlic sprouts. The sprouts have a mild flavor than garlic and can be added to salads, pasta and other dishes.
Bok Choy
Bok choy can be regrown by placing the root end in water in a well-lit area. In 1-2 weeks , you can transplant it to a pot with soil and grow a full new head.
Carrots
Put carrot tops in a dish with a little water. Set the dish in a well-lit room or a window sill. You’ll have carrot tops to use in salads.
Basil
Put clippings from basil with 3 to 4-inch stems in a glass of water and place it in direct sunlight. When the roots are about 2 inches long, plant them in pots to and in time it will grow a full basil plant.
Celery
Cut off the base of the celery and place it in a saucer or shallow bowl of warm water in the sun. Leaves will begin to thicken and grow in the middle of the base, then transfer the celery to soil.
Romaine Lettuce
Put romaine lettuce stumps in a ½ inch of water. Re-water to keep water level at ½ inch. After a few days, roots and new leaves will appear and you can transplant it into soil.
Cilantro
The stems of cilantro will grown when placed in a glass of water. Once the roots are long enough, plant them in a pot in a well-lit room. You will have a full plant in a few months.
If the scallions work, so will LEEKS! Leeks are delicious!
the greatest skill a woman can learn for herself is self reliance
to clarify … so many strong women in my life rely on men. that dependence is dangerous. ladies here are some good ref resources I’ve found helpful on my journey towards self reliance
this list is in no way comprehensive feel free to add on
a lot of ‘man things’ are a lot easier than you think they are. especially considering the fact that most of these things when buying the parts come with directions on the packaging that men usually don’t even look at (and often end up doing it wrong because they were taught by fathers who also did not look at the packaging).
like i recently had to change my car battery and freaked out cause i thought id electrocute myself but turns out new batteries come with directions and its the easiest shit in the world so long as you can lift the damn thing.
so yeah, ladies dont ever feel like a man is a necessity for life, you can do this shit on your own its easier than you think!
I have 3 older brothers, as well as my dad, tell me a thousand times that there were things I couldn’t do, and then I found out why.
They refused to look at directions, and struggled for ages over something, pooling opinions on the matter and drawing from Dad’s life experience or “figuring out” a way for the thing to work. And then anytime something weird happens they claim “it has a trick to it” that I just wouldn’t understand because I didn’t go through the work they did to get the thing half-working.
Until I tried it myself. After reading the directions. 10 minutes later I had the thing working perfectly, all the bells and whistles too, and fully understanding how those extra bits work.
But then! Because they did not understand the thing or how it was supposed to work properly they assumed I BROKE IT, and refused to let me use it again. This also furthered their idea that I, the only baby girl, should not handle such Manly Tasks™.
Do you understand? Because the men spend eons trying to rebuild the wheel and failed, they assume there’s no other way better than their own, thus the task must be impossible. They couldn’t even fathom the idea that the instructions, let alone a GIRL CHILD, could ever do it better.
– Go in at the end of the month
– Buy the model of the year right before the model for the next year comes out (dealers get desperate to sell the old models)
– Refuse to put any money down. Say that if they ask you to put down money, you’ll leave
– Seriously. If they ask you to put down money say you need to go and walk out
– If there’s another dealership nearby, tell them that you’re walking there right after you leave
– If a deal seems unfair but you really like the car, tell them you’re going to another dealership and leave. Chances are, they’ll call back the next day with a better deal
– If possible, after the first call wait till the last few days of the month and they’ll likely call again with an even better deal
– Look around for family and friends that need a car. If you buy more than one car from the same dealership you’ll get a much better deal
– If a family member/friend is looking for a used car while you’re looking for a new car or vice versa, still get the used car from the same dealership
– If you decide to buy a new car after a few years, trade in the old car and buy a new one from the same dealership. Companies appreciate loyalty and will likely offer you a lower price
UPDATED
(My dad went to college for finance, more specifically he looked a lot at stocks and how to sell things for a maximum profit. He learned it from the perspective of the company but it also works in his advantage)
– When you walk into a dealership, the salesperson will immediately “be your friend”. They’ll act like it’s you and them against dealership – Sometimes a salesperson will offer to talk to the manager. This does not mean anything. Chances are, they’re going to have small talk for a few minutes and come back out – Carefully consider the usefulness of an extended warranty. You’re losing money unless there’s an accident or issue soon after you buy the car – This wasn’t so clear before, but you’re still going to have to pay a down payment. What you should refuse is a securing payment – The securing payment is a psychological trick. You feel more tied to the company so you’re more likely to buy from them – You’re extremely more likely to buy at the last place you go, but with the securing payment you’re less likely to go to another dealership due to a sense of commitment – A salesperson may say it’s a limited time deal. Most times, unless this is the last of that years model, or it’s a special event, the deal is not going away and will still be there if you decide to go back. It’s not necessarily a deal breaker, but you should be suspicious if it’s said to you – Save money by asking to buy the floor model. There’s no mileage on it, but it’s worth less because people have sat in it – Or, ask to buy the demo if you’re willing to buy a car with some mileage. The depreciation of the price is usually worth it – Each can get you a few thousand dollars off due to the fact that it is technically not a “new” car anymore – Always look at the websites and play around with the build a car, payment calculators, or anything other offered features. Make sure when you’re using it you look at the down payment and the number of months that you will be paying for the car over – Try to not buy a really obscure model because the trade in value will be lower – Get the maximum down payment you can afford to lower the interest cost – Look for a crash rating test. A 5 is going to get good trade in value, and is much safer
(This was written in NY so there might be exceptions in other states or countries)
If you want to use a non sketchy youtube downloading site I just spent some time making a really simple one here: https://y23.cmder.tech/
It lets you download the video or just the audio of a youtube video
Well since I’ve made this post I’ve added a few features:
Get whole playlists at once (or download all the audio from the playlist in a zip)
Convert audio to mp3/wav
Added the ability to cut up videos/make gifs
If you like the site and want more features why don’t you become a patreon and vote on new ones! https://www.patreon.com/ssn
heyyyy just a reminder to PLEASE NOT USE THIS to download music and stuff illegally. C’mon guys, this directly takes away sales from content creators. Can we just, like, try NOT to break the law and shit all over content creators?
@squigglydigglydoo as both a recording musician and a student of the music industry, to be frank, you’re wrong. Plain and simple.
If piracy is cutting into your digital sales and it’s a problem, it’s because you’re making money from digital sales in the first place. And if you’re making money from digital sales in 2018, it’s because you have enough fans that you don’t need to worry about the money anyway. Streaming services like Spotify have totally crushed iTunes, Bandcamp, and the like, and there’s just not any money to be made from any of it – again, unless you’re attracting the kind of numbers where you don’t have to worry about it.
All the money in the music industry right now is in live shows and exclusive content. Fans like t shirts, we like posters, hell we even like shitty outdated formats like CDs if we can buy them in person from our favorite musician. That kind of stuff provides an experience, it provides person-to-person communication, and it provides a sense of identity and community. People will pay for that still because that’s way more important than the music ever was. It’s all about the heart and spirit, not about the content.
So let people rip music off YouTube. My next album is gonna be pay-what-you-want (read: free) because otherwise, no one will download it anyway. And instead, I’m selling handmade t shirts. Good luck pirating those.
Stop trying to make people pay for things that don’t matter and start letting them buy things that do.
depends! my go tos seem to be aroundddd 5 x 7 (small commissions) 9 x 12 (misc art/sketchpages) 10 x 14 (Larger commissions/refsheets/my own junk) 12 x 18 (big illustrations)
all at 300 dpi
in inches of course, i dont know how many pixels is what anymore haha
Informal Ranked Difficulty of Botanical* Illustration subjects:
Entry Level: Fruits and vegetables you can regularly buy at the grocery store, plants that are typical of thier type, A Single Bloom And Two Leaves ™,
Intermediate: Uncommon and complex fruits and vegetables, Orchids that you weren’t gonna show to anyone who actually knows about orchids, plants typical of an uncommon type, Basic seed-to-furiting life cycle of common crops.
Hard Mode: The Whole Plant And Notable Features ™, Anything that involves miscroscopy, diseased or dead specimens, reconstructing from the paper’s notes and the one really sad dead specimen they sent along, Mushrooms.
Masterclass: Whole-ass Tree, Orchids you show actual Orchid People, In-depth analysis of common grocery store crops, Carnivorous Plants, flowers that are really sixty bajillion teeny flowers at once, grasses.
Actual Witchcraft: LICHENS, nonvascular plants, fungi that are not mushrooms, multi-species interactions, plants that are actually illegal, POLLEN, extinct plants.
DEALS WERE MADE WITH UNHOLY POWERS OF DARKNESS IN ORDER TO RENDER THESE RIGHT: Seaweeds and Algae.
*Fungi lived right there too so they’re invited to the party.
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