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Two Very Different Art Books
Apr. 2nd, 2016 11:45 pmThe mail was good today. I received two books I was waiting for, The Artwork of Martingale Canter Etcher and The Art of Drawer by Sun True.
M.C. Etcher's lithographs are delightful. She drew physically impossible scenes, optical illusions, warped perspectives, geometric figures and tiles of things and creatures that transform across the page but remain fitted together. It's like she took magic and made a drawing of it.
Sun True's book is a classic and perfect for Rarity. Her Canterlot boutique is doing well and she told me she would like to set up shop in Manehattan as well. If the time Rarity nearly lost in that Manehattan fashion competition (when Suri Polomare copied her designs) is any indication of how hard it can be to get ahead in Manehattan, this book could give her an edge. After Princess Cadence foals there will be a Crystal Empire ceremony we will be invited to and my friends are coming over to discuss that tomorrow. I'll give her the book then.
Today I spent time organizing Friendship concepts alphabetically by type. So much fun! Do you think I should have Starlight Glimmer go make some friends with griffons in Griffonstone? Advantage: they're not ponies. Disadvantage: they might not talk to her unless she pays them. Advantage: I think Starlight has an iron stomach and the food won't bother her. Disadvantage: she doesn't have a ready made mutually beneficial quest on which to build a common goal with griffons there, unless she's really good at spelunking through gale force winds. She will have to find common ground with griffons some other way.
M.C. Etcher's lithographs are delightful. She drew physically impossible scenes, optical illusions, warped perspectives, geometric figures and tiles of things and creatures that transform across the page but remain fitted together. It's like she took magic and made a drawing of it.
Sun True's book is a classic and perfect for Rarity. Her Canterlot boutique is doing well and she told me she would like to set up shop in Manehattan as well. If the time Rarity nearly lost in that Manehattan fashion competition (when Suri Polomare copied her designs) is any indication of how hard it can be to get ahead in Manehattan, this book could give her an edge. After Princess Cadence foals there will be a Crystal Empire ceremony we will be invited to and my friends are coming over to discuss that tomorrow. I'll give her the book then.
Today I spent time organizing Friendship concepts alphabetically by type. So much fun! Do you think I should have Starlight Glimmer go make some friends with griffons in Griffonstone? Advantage: they're not ponies. Disadvantage: they might not talk to her unless she pays them. Advantage: I think Starlight has an iron stomach and the food won't bother her. Disadvantage: she doesn't have a ready made mutually beneficial quest on which to build a common goal with griffons there, unless she's really good at spelunking through gale force winds. She will have to find common ground with griffons some other way.
