I like this better, teal and purple. 🙂
Touching Photo from the Iraqi Elections
January
30
2005
With tears rolling down her eyes, a veiled Iraqi woman shows off her finger stained with blue ink and a small card reading ‘Elect Iraq’ after she cast her vote in a polling station in Amman, January 30, 2005. Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a historic election on Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 25 people in bloody attacks aimed at wrecking the poll. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
To see more Iraqi Election photos, go to the “most popular slideshows” area here.
I have to add this. This is Ali’s account of his first vote in Iraq. Grab some kleenex, and thank God for the millions of Iraqis like him.
To Paint, or Not to Paint
January
30
2005
That’s not even the question! Painting. Definitely.
After a nice HOT HOT HOT shower, some Zicam homeopathic cold remedy nasal gel stuff, a dose of Advil allergy & sinus and a warm rice sock over my head, I fell asleep and slept through the night. The good news is, I only woke up a few times reaching for the kleenex. The bad news is, one of the guys I went to high school with made an appearance in my dream lastnight, and he’s now singing vaudeville in Portland, Oregon. Isn’t that wierd? I never thought of him as someone who would end up on stage. His mom was a paramedic with my mom through high school, and believe it or not he WAS in drama. Why he showed up I do not know, but he looked awfully funny in his red & white striped suit up there singing with some other unknown crack-up.
Crazy dreams.
In my pacing and picking-up frenzy this morning, I decided that I really do not like the background I’ve got going on for Callie, so I’ll be revising that this morning and putting her off to the side to dry while I work on Nicki. Nicki will get her underpainting today! I also need to sign The Supreme’s, so I’ll do that today too so I can scan them (maybe?) tomorrow.
Yep, lots of painting in store! I’ll update my webcam status so you can stop in if you’d like!
I’ll be back & forth, at some point we’re going to have to run out and get a fresh supply of kleenex.
Cat Portrait : Emily Completed!
January
29
2005
Here’s Emily, still wet of course… I will have another look at her in the morning and may do some tweaking. I’m getting “a bid ub a hed code” and my sinuses are getting ready to pop my eyeballs right out of my head!
‘Nite! (Cam’s going off, I’m going off…TV’s going off… we’re allllll goin’ to bed!)
Iraq: The Vote
January
29
2005
Election day in Iraq. The headlines on CNN’s website are just so biased, aren’t they? The headline, “Eight more Iraqis killed on election eve” begs the reader to believe that the election process is absolutely horrid. Then, a good halfway down the article, you get to see the positive side;
In voting elsewhere, in at least 14 countries around the world, thousands of exuberant Iraqi expatriates — many of them exiles who fled Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship –have already cast their ballots. (Full story)
“It’s the greatest day in my life, the greatest feeling ever in my life,” said Montador Almosawi, who voted Friday in Southgate, Michigan, near Detroit. “My feeling is that I’m doing something for my country.”
Expatriate voting that began Friday will continue through Sunday.
More than 280,000 Iraqis registered abroad, though that figure represents only about 25 percent of those eligible to vote. The biggest group was in Iran, where 60,000 registered.
How nice of them to mention that! I just read something over on Blackfive that sums up how I feel about the media – and this particular article – very well. You’re never going to know how many insurgents we beat to the punch. You’re only going to know how many innocent lives were taken by them.
Ug.
An even better source, Iraqi Blogger Central. Jeffrey, an American, quotes and links to many Iraqi bloggers and their thoughts on the election.
I ask that you please keep our guys and the Iraqi people, who are working toward bringing their country into the present, in your prayers these next few days.
In art related business, I’ll be painting today. I’ll update my webcam status so you can stop in and watch if you’d like.
Cat Portrait : Ten Completed!
January
28
2005
By the time I’m done with my schedule I’ll have completed ten portraits, but seriously, this is TEN’s portrait. LOL (heh! Moommmm why’d you name her a number!!)
So here’s my hurry-up-I-wanna-show-ya horrible digital pic, with glare and everything! Oh I can’t wait to scan her!
Actually, you can see a better image of her on my
webcam!
Scroll on down and have a look at her underpainting…big difference huh? It’s so fun to share that really wild looking “holy cow that’s AWFUL” stage.. I’m big into the whole “psyche!” thing. LOL
Cam’s back on
January
28
2005
Just turned it back on, I’ll be painting on and off the rest of the day!
Wowzers! Look at my schedule!
January
28
2005
I’m in a jaw-droppin’, how-the-hell-did-that-happen kind of state at the moment. I’m booked through Mark’s arrival now. Woah.
You guys are awesome.
(this is down in the left hand column under Current Schedule)
Now the pressure is on… I will paint until I can paint no more. You will look at me and see multitude of colors pouring out from my ears. When you stop by my studio you will find me underneath a sea of empty tubes of Winsor & Newton Oil Colours, feverishly applying hair to whatever sweet little creature I have on canvas.
::sqwee!::
My dream come true!
(Any other takers? c’monnn…. I want to BLEED pure pigment…bring it ON!)
Today I shall work on The Supreme’s. They will have nose jobs, eye-enhancements and ear-tucks. I will apply hair-plugs and give them chunky white streaks in pre-determined locations. They will each be their own “Swan”, and then later we can have a little pageant! Doesn’t that sound fun? (Am I losing it? You be the judge.)
I’ll flip the switch on the cam in a little while, the Mister is around somewhere and wanted to chat a bit this morning. Check back under “Studio Webcam – OFF” and if it says “Studio Webcam – ON“, c’mon in!
