Achievement Unlocked: Tapestry Class

Tapestries.  Classical art form, and also a method of earning Happiness points in the video game Game of Dwarves.  Now before I show you mine, we should first go over some examples of the art so you can truly appreciate my avante garde work:

Those are pretty good.  Obviously, given how artistic I am, my masterpiece is in a league of its own.  I decided to go with a basic retro neoclassical side-goth style, which obviously required adopting the more advanced 2-color pallete:

There you have it.  The very black diamonds my blog is half named for, and which I haven't even skiied for more than a year.

The class was fun and I did enjoy my time there, but it did take more time than the painting.  It was obvious that this, like the painting, was very much a girl thing, not just because I was the only male there but much more importantly because the girl in charge didn't even think to bring black yarn.  That black up there in my masterpiece is just a very dark blue.  I suppose its for the best...if there had been black yarn, I would have just tapestried up a large rectangle of black and been done with it.

Ironically, making a tapestry and making Lego mosaics have a lot in common.  Too bad there isnt a...wait...ok no.  I was right.  There is no fun art class for making mosaics out of legos.  Shit.  Maybe I should teach one.  Except the entrance fee would have to be like $200 just to cover the parts.  Hmm.....

Anyway.

Painting was more fun and less tedious.  And even though there were some cute girls I sensed some very wary vibes in the beginning, until they noticed that I had gotten wrapped up in my sad attempt to tapestrify a double black diamond sign.  Which, in itself, was kind of dumb.  I should have just fucked around with shapes like everyone else in the class, and flirted more with the cute teacher (she has cats) but I got too wrapped up in trying to make something that I will...never use.  I seriously don't know what to do with it.  Its uglier than the painting;  its sure as hell not going on the wall.

I talked to the instructor a bit concerning what it would take for a beginner like me to attempt to make the White Tree of Gondor.  I could take some intermediate classes, or just hire her for instruction.  I think though, that we're going to have a moratorium on hitting on--I mean working with--private instructors.  At least until I get enough pussy to wash off the "single guy" smell.

Meeting people is nice, and this was obviously a better use of my time, probably, than sitting at home playing minecraft in my underwear for 16 hours straight.  Still, a class like this comes and goes.  I think to actually make friends it has to be something like volleyball where you'll see the same people for a while.  Idk.  I kind of really want a White Tree of Gondor taptestry now...one that doesn't look like shit, and which I can claim to have made.  I have so many white walls.