I was waiting to post this because I wanted to surprise the friend I made it for but I painted this last week. A little alchemical rooster on another wooden egg.
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These things are tricky to paint because it takes a lot of contact to keep it steady and turn it while you go, but the paint I use easily absorbs grease from even the cleanest hands (not like mine are the cleanest).
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I spent the whole time working on it trying to hold it steady without greasing it up and mostly succeeded except for the very top.
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I'm going to keep it short and sweet for once since I decided to dedicate today to lounging in the AC after a week of biking all over the damn place and going to every show in every hot basement. I just wanted to make something for a friend who's always been super generous with his talent and time. The symbolism is sort of intentionally vague.