Friday Feature: The Trouble with Tribbles

The trouble with tribbles is, apparently, that they aren't the right shape to be useful for Tony's purposes. No matter. Yesterday, while critiquing Deborah's drawing of Toby, Tony invented a "shaved mutant tribble", cylindrical in shape, to illustrate what happens to Toby's stubble as it turns under his jawline. This lead to much discussion of the principle of the "tribble horizon". Surely Deborah will not forget this example.

Following the discussion, it was decided that members of the Ryder Studio would found a band called "The Shaved Mutant Tribbles". There is a rumor that Tobias Hall (AKA "Cosmic Ray"), of the band "Photon Envelope" (lead singer and guitarist Tim Stotz, of Studio Escalier) may defect to the Tribbles.

If you have no idea what a Tribble is, please check this link.

Below: cylindrical tribble diagram.

Friday Feature: Belated Koala Story

While making a mixture of cobalt violet light and Old Holland ochre on John's palette, Tony described the resulting color as something one might feed to an "orphaned baby creature" with an eyedropper. The creature he had in mind was a koala, which, he explained, one would probably have to feed something really easy to stomach, like watered down grape jelly (think of cobalt violet light and you might see some connection here). And what about the ochre? "That's for fiber." Of course.

And so "Koala juice" has been added to the Ryder Studio color vocabulary.

Friday Feature

Our Favorite Tonyism of the week:

"This is what I like to call the cat's mustache form."

Tony attempts to describe an otherwise unnamed sub-form related to the lips, "node" and "muzzle". Some of the students needed additional clarification, on the grounds that they had never seen a cat sporting a mustache.