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Ok guess what I did today. I’m only going to give you one guess. DING! Yes, you’re right. The Frog!

Started out the day with some swamp additions, then sketched out a few creatures, got to painting…did some administrative type things, back to painting, then in for the evening to get the girls all bathed and ready to go to Grandma & Grandpa’s for the weekend! I will be painting ALL day tomorrow to finish this fella. I have a few more things to do, each side of him will have his own swampy animal, and the swamp will also have some lily pads, lotus flowers, highlights and things to make it really very fun.

He is scheduled to ship on Monday, leaving here in the afternoon!

Honey’s portrait arrived at her home today, yahoo Honey! And thanks to mom for letting me paint her, she is a SWEETIE PIE!

After Swampy takes off I’ll be getting Rocky, Simba and Dom ready to go home, too. (Pouty face, I like their company…sniff…sniff…)

I also added links to Toronto on my home page, and on the wildlife artwork pages. It was a quickie logo insert, but my client wanted to make sure that anyone he sends here could find the progress page easily. Also, he’ll be sending me photos of Toronto once he’s in place at the waterpark! I am so excited I can hardly stand it, the way he described it makes me want to change our vacation route to swing on up across the border! It is going to be so cool! If any of you are in or near Aurora, Ontario, stop and visit him for me until I can get there, k? 😀

Ok go look at the frog!

xoxoxo

Anyone else having troubles seeing the info and scroll columns to the right of the text here? Please let me know!

I wanted to share some of the pics from my new camera..these are amazing! Yes, I will be painting a few of them, and Erikie will be, too!

These are big files, if you want to see the detail of the shots you’ll need to let them load. 🙂

Double Delight
Pinkie
Double Delight II
Caitlin Closeup
Pinkie II
Sweet Sleeper
Sunset
Squirrely eating Breakfast

The squirrely shot is a smidge blurry viewed large. Still figuring out the zoom on this.

Going to be sketching on Toronto Swampy today, we’ll be heading down to a local swamp/marsh for photos, too!

Yep, the frog has arrived! I started working on him at around 11:00 AM and finished around 7 after a run for more paint. Over to your right, underneath that handsome fella I like to refer to as “my hubby”, you’ll see a blank frog. If you click that link, you will go to my “Toronto Swampy” Frog Log where you can see what I’ve accomplished today!

EDIT: I’ll also put the Frog Log Link RIGHT HEREe that last fixer-upper of the frog pic/link didn’t work again! 😀

xoxoxo!

Just completed Simba, Rocky’s roomie and pal.

The frog arrived, got him unpacked and set up to start, I need to go hang sheeting around him under the carport so he’s protected from the elements while I begin to spray the first coat of enamel (it’s an adhesion promoter). By the way, Mom helped me clean out the garage yesterday so I could park Mark’s truck in there. I think this is the first time we’ve ever parked a vehicle in the garage! LOL! Yahoo! Thanks Mom!!! xoxo!

My new digital camera arrived too, have the battery on the charger already so as soon as that’s charged I’ll take pics of the blank froggie and get a page up for him so you can see his progress!

Here’s Simba… also 10×10 in oils…

I’m going to be working on Simba this evening, will probably post him tomorrow. I sent Rocky off to Mama too so she can have a looksee (and just in case you’re wondering, all of the P’s said it’s cool for you all to see their babies portraits!)

Also wanted to say a quick THANK YOU! to all my “new” friends and commenters! You guys are all so sweet! I am going to save replying & e-mail stuff for morning, it seems to be the best time for me to dig in on that before treadmilling. 😉

So ok, here we go. He’s a 10×10 Oil Painting (caution: wet paint!)

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed your pit-stops here to see some pretty eye-candies!

xoxoxo

Here he is! He is SO beautiful!! This is 12×16 in Oils. (by the way Honey the Yorkie is an india ink painting)

Well Dom, how do you like your portrait? If you wouldn’t mind asking your mom what she thinks too, that’d be swell! 😉

I’m such an overachiever. 😉

I thought I could finish 4 paintings today?! What was I thinkin’? I spent all day on this sweetiepie. I’ll be painting all weekend, and then Toronto Frog arrives Monday and I have to have him finished by next Saturday. So, what I don’t get finished this weekend has to wait until after the 28th.

There’s still a possibility of some modifications on her, I will know after the weekend. Here she is!

Has anyone seen today? I missed it. 🙁

The morning flew by with my morning 2 mile walk, some urgent Toronto Frog business, talking to Mark, getting disconnected, reconnecting, getting disconnected (getting the picture?), then ordering Toronto Frog supplies, running errands, home, lunch, more Toronto Frog business, cleaning out the pool, letting the girls enjoy it for almost 2 hours, dinner, PAINTING, bedtime, more of the Mark DNR (I’m hoping you’ve figured out my acronym so I don’t have to retype all of that), and now here I am.

Phew! I tried to reply to all my email today but I don’t think I’m going to finish. So for everyone waiting on me, I will reply soon! Tomorrow I will be painting ALL DAY LONG. Until the last brushstroke on all of these loverlies has been applied.

For now, here are Honey’s sweet eyes. 🙂

Here’s the progress on Honey. I am scooting off to the studio now!!!