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  • Sammy Davis Jr. Squirrel

    May
    30
    2005

    Our squirrels were just hamming it up yesterday, this one looks like he’s doing a Sammy Davis Jr. imitation doesn’t he?

    We don’t have any plans for today, how about you? I’ve already toned the paper for my next portrait, which is going to be a chalk/pastel painting (they’re actually Yarka crayons, although I have no idea why they’ve called them crayons), I’ll post a work in progress on that when I have my subjects sketched.

    The Tater background isn’t dry enough for me to work on yet today, so I’ll be working on my custom blog artwork piece. That one has progressed from a pencil sketch to a clean line drawing and is now becoming a very cool and vivid graphic illustration. It’ll be neat to see it go live within the new blog design for this client! Once my main gallery layout is revised (again), I’ll add a gallery specifically for screen shots of where my E.Webscapes client work is located. That will be a fun addition to my portfolio I think!

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    Filed under: A Little Squirrely, Chit Chat, The Great Outdoors

  • It’s a Glob, It’s a Blob…

    May
    29
    2005

    It’s a TATER COUPLE!

    This is another commission I’ve begun. What? What is that you say? NOT a pet portrait? What is going on?! Well. It’s all about potatoes, don’t you know. Even my pet portraits start out as spuds. Really. No, not really.

    All I can say is that you know you have the funnest (I made that up) job in the planet when you get to paint Taterheads.

    I love my life, I love my paint, and I love my Wacom tablet. Amen. Oh, yea, and my husband and kids, too. Amen.

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    Filed under: Chit Chat, Still Life, Works in Progress

  • Baby Chirps!

    May
    29
    2005

    We’ve been hearing baby chirps coming from one of our sparrow nests, and they’re finally big enough to peek their heads up! Awww, aren’t they sweet lil babies?!

    The weather here is not being very nice this weekend, it’s chilly and windy, and today it’s going to rain. Bah. It’s supposed to get up into the 80’s by the end of the week, I am so looking forward to that! I’d much rather sweat than freeze. I’m like a puppy, my fingers, toes and nose all freeze when it’s chilly out. Woof.

    I’m gonna be busy today, working on my next painting, finishing up my custom-blog-artwork order, and prepping my next portrait. I hope you guys are having better weather than I am!

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    Filed under: Chit Chat, The Great Outdoors

  • Taba’s Mousie : Final Scan & Detail

    May
    28
    2005

    Custom Mouse Portrait
    8 x 10 Oil Painting
    Gallerywrap Canvas
    © 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
    All Rights Reserved

    Click “read more” for detail shot!

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    Filed under: Chit Chat, Completed Paintings, My Fondest Memories, Pet Portraits

  • Bling-Bling for Your Retina

    May
    28
    2005

    WAKE UP!!!!!!

    Okay finish rubbing and sqwishing your eyes together before you go on. That was a pretty punchy head-on view of our sunrise, huh? Since I’m working on something “top secret no works in progress allowed” right now, I’ll just show ya what’s going on in My Big Back Yard.

    We have one peony blooming. This is it. She’s beautiful, and this was how she looked when that morning sunrise hit her yesterday morning. (I’m still sqwishing my eyes from resizing these down from full size. I know how you feel.)

    Here’s Mr. Moon. My daughters both have fits that Mr. Moon doesn’t go to bed when the sun comes out, so I dedicate this one to them. Just because I like to confuse and bewilder my children.

    Here’s our Fat Bird. Kindof like Fat Albert, only it’s a Cowbird. He’s not quite matured, hangs out with the sparrows on the ground around the feeders, and all he does is – well – guess. Eat. I don’t know how he manages to get his butt off the ground, but he does. He even waddles, like a duck! What a funny little bird. It’s so sad that they grow up to be parasitic, egg-thieving, nest hoarding birds. Nature’s order I guess, but I don’t have to like it! 😛

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    Filed under: The Great Outdoors, The Photog in Me

  • Again with the IM’s?!

    May
    27
    2005

    He was doing okay at first, actually reading my profile, even clicking through to my blog to see my work. But then it went south. And oh, so fast. Why? Why do people have to be so mean to other people? Does it really matter that I’m conservative? Does that label mean everyone automatically knows where I stand on every issue? Do I even care what political leanings anyone else has? Uh. No. You can be whatever you want to be, it’s a free country. You be nice to me, I’ll be nice to you, and that’s how the world stays a happy place, in my humble opinion. Even respectful disagreements are better than “don’t choke on the kool-aid.” Bah.

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    Filed under: Schmucks!

  • Mousie Painting Completed

    May
    26
    2005

    I finished up Taba’s Mousie today, too! I’m feeling so productive, I even prevented a senseless murder tonight – grackle vs. sparrow. I won. Sparrow lives at least a little while longer. Man those grackles are aggressive. 🙁

    I’ll scan Mousie tomorrow sometime and show ya again. Cause I like to repeat myself. A lot.

    😆

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    Filed under: Chit Chat, Pet Portraits, Works in Progress

  • Sissy : Final Scan & Detail

    May
    26
    2005

    Custom Cat Portrait : Sissy
    12 x 16 Oil Painting
    Gallerywrap Canvas
    © 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
    All Rights Reserved

    Click “read more” for detail shot!

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    Filed under: Cat Portraits, Chit Chat, Completed Paintings, My Fondest Memories

  • Woodpecker Girl

    May
    26
    2005

    Here’s a shot of a lovely woodpecker who visited our yard yesterday. She’s a Downy Woodpecker, female, and seems to be trying to find a place to make a home.

    I thought this next pic was pretty interesting, too. I was out on my little morning stroll (this was a few days ago) and noticed smoke coming from my neighbors yard somewhere. I started looking around and realized the sun was hitting the moisture on the tree, and it was relatively warm out that morning, and the tree was all steamy! I’ve never seen that happen before!

    I’m off to the torture chamber this morning, I’ll be squealing to the sound of a high pitched drill once again. Argh. Someone please tell me it really is good to get your teeth repaired and not just yank them all out for dentures!!! ???

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    Filed under: The Great Outdoors
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