I told you I was painting. See? Here’s Adriana’s head. Wierd lookin’, yes, she has no body. You’d look wierd too if your body was just a sketch. heh.
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Life, Love, and Critters – of course!
Happy Mother’s Day!
May
8
2005
For all the mom’s out there, I hope you have a nice warm sqwishy hug day today. 🙂
Yesterday was a busy day. I helped our neighbor with her yard for a while. She’s had a lot of construction going on over there for the last few months, the warm weather and huge mess made her pretty ambitious so I offered to help! We cut down one of her small trees (the dogs were working on digging it up for her), and she wanted to get rid of another one of her trees so she had someone dig it up and we moved it over into our yard. It’s a Red Bud tree, we think. Mark has wanted one since our trip home from Florida when we saw them blooming all the way back.
Today I am stiff and sore. I’d like to run down to the home improvement store for a water feature for all of this landscaping we’ve been doing, as well as some more mature plants so we don’t have to wait for everything to grow! We even built up an area for the girls to have their own garden to maintain. Jay planted carrots. I planted snow peas (eat ’em right out of the pod, yummmy!), and Cait planted big ol watermelons. We split the bed in half so there are veggies on one side and they picked out flowers for the other. Now they can water it and check them and watch them grow! Fun stuff.
I’ve got some painting to do, too! Dang I only have a couple of weeks left to finish everything I’ve got going. Then June is clear so far so I’m starting to think of other things I’d like to paint, non-commissioned. Hey, it’s been a while since I painted something non-commissioned huh? My last piece was the Viola, Antoinette. I finished that one back in Februrary.
So much to do, such warm weather to try to ignore….
I hope you’re having awesome summery weather and playing outside in it, too!!
Made it out ALIVE!
May
6
2005
I did it! I’m back from the dentist.
I’m getting a root canal, nah-nee-nah-nee-boo-boo. I know, you’re so jealous! Well I’m just lucky.
Referred pain sucks. When he finished I looked in my mouth and thought ‘huh?’ and asked him why he worked on the wrong tooth, or if he did them all. LOL Well apparently the one I thought was my owie was not my owie. It was just having sympathy pain. My teeth are so empathetic I tell you, even during the procedure my top left was screaming out in agony at the sound of the drill.
Even so, I’m back, I made it out alive, and I’m not in any pain (right now). HAH! So there!
I’ll paint today, I’m not sure when or what yet, but I will paint! (Check the webcam status.)
4X4’s WIP #1
May
5
2005
I’ve just completed making all of the 4×4 paintings patriotic! (That was part of the deal.) I’ll go back and add highlights and lowlights and stuff to give them dimension. Aren’t they fun??
Mouse WIP #1
May
5
2005
Here’s the mousey background, I’m doing a pretty drastic dropshadow on it cause it’s going to be a very 3-d comin-off-the-canvas kinda mouse!
Cat Portrait – Sissy WIP #1
May
5
2005
Here’s the background color scheme for Sissy’s portrait. The darkened right side will balance the shadow on that side of her portrait. I’m not sure I like the drop shadow on the ledge yet, I’ll wait until it dries and see how I like it, probably tweak it more.
Reasonable & Customary
May
5
2005
Guess what I get to do tomorrow morning? ::shudders:: I get to visit the dentist! EEEK!
I am guessing that I will be numb for up to 3 days since I require about 2 vials of novacaine before I can handle the sound of that high pitched drill so close to my brain. That’s a good thing. I will just have to take additional pain medication prior to my appointment so that the injections don’t make me squeal, either!
Yep I’m every dentists’ nightmare patient. Now you know something about me that you may not have known before!
I also have to be pre-medicated. For those of you who don’t know what that means, it means I have to take about a weeks worth of antibiotics an hour before and 2 hours after my appointment. Why? Cause I have some heart-valve problems, and apparently the bacteria that enters your bloodstream during dental work goes directly to your heart and advances the problems faster than they normally would. Yipee!
I hate going to the dentist. Bah. And the insurance coverage? Eh, so-so. It seems no health insurance on the face of the planet really wants anyone to get restorative work done, so they issue you a check for two-cents and send you to the bank to take out a second-mortgage on your home. By the time you’re done paying that loan off, you’re back at the dentist getting dentures anyway. 😛
Ok I’m going to go paint. On cam. I may or may not post work in progress pics, I’ll see how it goes!
Happy Thursday everybody!
A Few More Sketches
May
3
2005
I did get a few more sketches done today, the top two are from the 4×4 countdown (one upgraded to 5×7). The goobly gobbly one is CAKE. Yes I’m gonna paint a cake. MMM. And if you’re nice to me and post a whole bunch, I’ll share the recipe with you. heh.
This one is Sissy, she’s a white kitty and will be a nice dramatic portrait since she’s got really beautiful long white fur. Her left eye looks strange right now because I just outlined where it will appear to be. There is a beautiful drop shadow cast on her left side, she will actually have a similar (and reversed) shading effect of Into The Light.
