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Thoughtful
July
20
2005
I love elephants. I love their wrinkles, I love how gentle they can be for being such massive creatures.
To me, she’s not a caption candidate. She just looks so thoughtful, a little sad, but mostly beautiful and majestic. I love this photo because I feel like I captured a very personal moment for her. How does this photo effect you? Do you look at it as a moment, with meaning behind it, or simply as a picture? I’m curious.
Today’s another full day, I’ll update later with another progress on Lucy. Lastnight and this morning I’ve been illustrating a custom graphic for a blog design and I’m trying to get that finished up! I also ran down to my favorite store lastnight (Dick Blick) and picked up my matting, frames and three photographs, so I need to get those framed up. I was hoping they’d have some of the new Linen Panels (or even the boards) in store but they don’t, so I’ll have to order online – I’d really like to try a new surface and see how I like it. I also picked up 3 books, hoping to break out of my tendency toward realism with graphic illustrations. You’ll probably be seeing my practice doodles on my tablet here from time to time!
I have to say that Bruce should win the Dick Blick best employee ever award, if there is one. I’ve never met someone so genuinely wonderful and good to the soul of an artist. I’m sure that he has to be every local artist’s creative therapist. I think from now on when I’m feeling in need of a little artistic therapy, I’m just going to have to hop in the car and run down to the store when Bruce is working. That, and he always carries all of my bags (oy) to my car and loads them for me. Simply put, if he’s there while I’m shopping, I feel famous. Sweet.
Kay, better get to work, have a great day!
Lucy WIP #4 – Eyes
July
18
2005
Lucy’s eyes are pretty well finished now. I’ve started lining the upper and lower lids, but will move on to her paws and back now. The way that I paint is from the back forward. This makes the most sense if you think about it, because the fur on the tip of her nose will lay on top of the fur on her cheekbones, which lays on top of the fur on her paws and back.
I’ve cropped her eyes from the last work in progress pics so you can see the progress without scrolling, too…
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Chimps-R-Us
July
18
2005
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)
I seem to have a lot of primates who like to pose for me, huh?
I’ve got a lot of things going on today, I’ll be back later on and show you what I’m up to! 🙂
Sunday Morning Delights
July
17
2005
What a b e a u t i f u l morning! It’s HOT. That’s okay by me, the pool water is a balmy 84 degrees, so it’s allll good. We’ll have a dip in the pool in a little while.
I have some bad news. I tried to grow food. I know. That was my first mistake. Sugar snap peas though? I had to at least try! Well, I did it. And I had results, I swear! I had a itty bitty baby pod, and in the right light you could see the little peas inside. It was beautiful. I held it in my hand, it was barely the size of my pinkie. I was so proud. :sniff:
It’s gone. :sniff-sniff:
Someone ate my baby pea, and it wasn’t me! 😥
Oh well. Maybe next year.
I have some lovelies to show you!! All of these pics were taken in my very own yard. I am so excited, and I can’t decide which I like best, so I am just going to have to show you all three. You decide for me okay? I would wait, and just show you one a day, but honestly. I can’t wait. I’m bad that way, I could just unload my camera’s memory right here, right now, and let you sort it all out. It’s a tough job. (Okay, I’ll stop tooting my own horn now. Jeez. Not like I do that very often!)
I’m going to hide them though. So you have to close your eyes, and count to three, and then click, then count to three again, and open your eyes! Doesn’t that sound like fun? If anyone actually does it, I have to know. You better tell me. hehe!
(And if you’re still on dial-up, click, go get coffee, come back.. you know the drill!)
Okay, ready?
One…. Two…. THREE!
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Lucy WIP #3
July
16
2005
I finally got to a point where I wanted to stop and take a progress pic. This is pretty neat, if you look at it against the second work in progress here (the work in progress category), you can see the areas I’ve been working on.
Her ears have 3-4 more layers of hair, and I worked the hairline on the top of her head but won’t continue down her forehead until her ears are dry. I put a lot of time in on her left eye, you can see it’s much more glossy, and I’ll still enhance them just a smidge more after this layer is dry. I thought that having one eye at the first layer and one after the second was pretty neat and wanted to share. See? It’s really not so scary after all.
P.S. A while back, I posted a pic of my favorite paintbrushes. Just so you can see what I paint with!
Frog Pond
July
16
2005
Caption these Froggies!
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)
I photographed these two lastnight while we were out walking – we ended up at a pond that has hundreds of froggies!
Bugs
July
15
2005
Here are a couple of bugs, pests, insects, however you wish to classify them! I snapped these photos this morning out in my wildflower garden, also have a few more beautiful pics of my sunflowers as well.
The bees are loving this garden, that’s for sure. Thankfully they don’t mind me shoving my camera in their little faces. Oh believe me, I’d be outta there if they got annoyed with me!
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Beautiful Sunset
July
14
2005
We watched the sunset tonight over Arsenal island. It was magnificent, and I don’t want to detract from it with too many words. Enjoy.
