My buddy loves walking through the woods!
Month: September 2017
This design was a real test of how well I can paint using a mouse when my graphics tablet decided to give up the ghost halfway through! The answer? Well, I think the results speak for themselves. This one took a little longer than most of my designs usually do; it’s another of my foxes, and perhaps she was feeling a little shy.
I’d just finished painting the dancing fox and had barely gotten started on shading the knotwork when my graphics tablet just quit on me, so I had to complete the painting using my mouse. It could have been worse – at least I didn’t have to resort to using my laptop trackpad!
This design was inspired by the idea of the Hunter’s Moon (the full moon following September’s Harvest Moon), and it’s available now in my Redbubble and Spreadshirt stores now – just in time for the chillier Autumn weather!
Also available as prints from DeviantART.
Sponsor me on Patreon from as little as $1 a month – or why not buy me a coffee? I’m going to need a lot of coffee to keep me fueled through the cold weather – and you’ll be helping me buy a new graphics tablet too, so I can keep painting!
My graphics tablet has died! Buy a t-shirt and you can help me buy a replacement and you’ll have a cool new shirt to keep you warm now the weather’s getting colder! Or buy me a coffee which will help keep me fueled and going whilst I toil over my mouse….
@the-arkadian takes commissions too!
“Prisoners, people on the dole, much the same thing, right?”
I misread that as “pensioners” at first, and barely even blinked by now.
BROKEN BRITAIN: “It’s getting so bad these days, you can’t even do a bit of harmless blacking up any more.”
Government cuts have caused ‘human catastrophe’ for disabled, UN committee says
Cuts to the UK Government’s welfare made “systematic violations” of the rights of disabled people, says the CRPD.
The CRPD has previously said the Government’s welfare cuts have resulted in “grave and systematic violations” of the rights of disabled people – a claim opposed by ministers but backed by UK courts…
The committee is now conducting a much wider investigation to assess the UK’s progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People, as part of a periodic review all nations signed up to the convention must go through.
Stig Langvad, the CRPD’s rapporteur for the UK, said he was “deeply concerned” about the Government’s failure to act on the committee’s previous report.
“I could provide a long list of examples where the state party does not live up to the Convention,” he said.
Government cuts have caused ‘human catastrophe’ for disabled, UN committee says
Flying fish, strange as it sounds, have aerodynamic prowess comparable to hawks. The fish aren’t true fliers, but they do glide for hundreds of meters using their large pectoral and pelvic fins as wings. Wind tunnel research shows the fish have their maximum lift at an angle of attack around 30-35 degrees, matching their typical take-off angle (top). Their best gliding performance occurs when they’re roughly parallel to the water (middle). The researchers even found that the fish use ground effect to enhance their lift. Although their aerodynamics allow flying fish to get out of reach of their aquatic predators, the fish must be wary of flying too high, as this makes them a target for frigatebirds (bottom). These acrobatic seabirds can’t get wet, but they have some impressive aerodynamics of their own to help make up for it. (Image credit: BBC Earth, source; research credit: H. Park and H. Choi; see also SciAm)
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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