Jan13Art

I'm having serious blank page issues the last few days... so today a green olive. Why?  Because they were on my list to get at the grocery store today and I forgot them... I love them in my garden salads... so I'll be going back to the store for them probably Tuesday, since I have to go to Columbia for work tomorrow.
The Atlanta Falcons fabulous season continues... we enjoyed most of the game today at Wild Wings our favorite Sunday afternoon place to eat.  Then I went to Michaels and picked up a few art supplies I couldn't live without, some even on sale LOL

Jan12Art

Can't think of a single thing to draw... my choice was either my hand or my foot... hand didn't require taking a shoe off ... so the hand it was.
Got Dixie a new crate today, the old one was over 20 years old... and having issues...  hope this one last as long. My dog's have their dinner and sleep in their crates... with JRT's that don't get along with each other, this sleeping arrangement let's everyone get a good night's sleep.

Jan11Art

Most people know the opening words of this poem... but there's lots of good stuff in it about... getting fat and eating what you want... and hoarding pens and pencils... sounds like my kinda poem... wish I could meet Jenny Joseph I think I'd like her.

Jan10Art

I got this coffee cup and canister for Christmas with these blue flowers (along with some big yellow flowers). I had earlier made a card that I loaded with watercolor pencil color... to use as a super portable, super light weight palette.  I tried to use that card to paint the flowers, but didn't have enough color laid down even for these tiny flowers... so I went to my bijou box to finish this one.  I'm going to have to re-think my card or do a better job of loading it with color.

Jan09Art

You want to know the BEST thing about marrying an Italian man?  The smell of spaghetti sauce cooking... he's cooking right now and my mouth is watering from the smell.  Guess I'll finish this and go in the kitchen and make us a salad to got with it... and maybe get a taste of that sauce that smells so devine.

Jan08Art

This is me... trying to get out of a rut...  is it working?  I liked the pears... not sure the title word works... it may be too distracting. Spent the evening struggling with a newsletter I can't get to convert like I want it to...sometimes computers make me crazy.. and today is one of those days.

Jan07Art

Went to the Berkeley County Council meeting with my camera ready for the drama that we thought might unfold.  Instead the meeting started with the prayer above, a bit of whiney complaining from Jack Schurlknight... but everything went smoothly.
Been a long day, but I did manage to draw my vise grips, a small pair I use to open stuck paint tubes.  It isn't orange in real life, but in my book it is :-)

Jan06Art

Got this little water brush yesterday at the Hobby Lobby 'buycott'... it breaks into two parts and has a plug for the water half to keep the water in the barrel, unlike the other brush like this I got that leaks water when broken down.  I haven't tried it yet, but plan to soon.
Put a little more work into my painting, mostly masking.  Tomorrow I have to go to Columbia for work, and to the Berkeley County Council meeting tomorrow night.. so not much art will get done tomorrow.

Jan05Art

My transparent turquoise finally arrived along with a violet I thought I'd try... and a mop brush in a size I didn't have.  So I put a little paint on paper today, and shopped at Hobby Lobby after breakfast with my friends and our new Senator Tim Scott was a surprise guest this morning.  Everyone was thrilled to see him.

Senator Tim Scott vs NAACP

The NAACP has had some ugly things to say about our new Senator Tim Scott.  The people of SC who know and love Tim Scott, really don't care what they think about him.  This picture was taken this morning at a breakfast at the American Legion in Goose Creek SC, the new Senator said a few words, hugged a few of the ladies (me included), then served up the grits so that he made sure he said a few words to every person there.  Tim is not an elite DC politician... he is as solid a person, honorable, kind, thoughtful... an all around nice guy... it is only recently that someone pointed out to all of us that Tim is black... we had not noticed that before.

Jan04Art

This is a new color I got, the name attracted me 'Shell Pink' from Holbein.  It's a very soft pink, lots of white in it I think.  It might work for skin color on babies maybe.

Jan03Art

Only one rawhide bone remains from the dog's Christmas bones...  they had these cute little red and green rawhide bows on them.  For some reason the dogs would not have anything to do with the bows and first thing they all did was pull them off and ignore them, so I finally threw them away.

Jan02Art

Champagne is long gone, but I saved the cork to draw... along with the wire thingy that holds the cork down.  

Cloudy rainy gray day today, so I didn't get out and walk... we have the same forecast for tomorrow.

Paint didn't come today, but a coupon from Daniel Smith did... very tempting... so far I'm resisting LOL 

Got this darling little accordion sketch book (about 2" square pages)... it is too long for my scanner so I had the split the image in to two parts.

Jan01Art 2013

Well I've already done badly on the junk food deal... but how can you watch football without a few chips and dips and a beer to wash um down.  Tomorrow I'll cut back on the junk food.
Haven't added paint to paper yet but I have started a new painting... it takes me forever to do each step, but last weekend I enlarged my photos and printed them in black and white then found my tracing paper (which somebody spilled wine on... so I need a new tracing paper pad).  Decided the photo was too small, so back to photoshop.  Getting the image on the tracing paper took 2 days.  So today I got my light box out and discovered that the pencil lines on the tracing paper were too light so show up thru 300 lbs watercolor paper.  Got out some Microns and inked in the lines, and colored in the things I wanted to mask... nice and black.  That showed up so I transferred the image to the watercolor paper.  Got out the drawing gum mask and masked out all the places needed.  Next step is on hold because a color I need (this is a NEED not a want) is on order and has not arrived yet.  So this painting goes on the stack of started but not finished paintings...
A short term goal for this month, is to FINISH the other two paintings in the stack, even if I hate them... I need the boards they are taped to, and it's time to finish them or throw them out.
A good day for SC teams at bowl games, Clemson won as did SC... in spite of the officials and the announcers who were doing their best to help Michigan win it.