The office park near our house has all these bushes, trimmed like this. I have no idea what they are, or why they groom them this way.
We met for lunch with some of Ron's classmates had some laughs listening to everyone's stories.
Fifty four percent humidity and 97 degree heat just sucks the life out of you... it's too hot to even think about going outside.
Another Daily Zoo book animal, I found this giraffe irresistible..
We spent most of the day today, at political meetings and/or parties...it was too hot and humid to get much done in the yard.... or to tackle my current mound of dirty laundry.
Added the humidity to my weather notation... 42%... makes the air thick enough to cut with a knife... and Hot, did I mention it's Hot today :-)
This is Bill Conner, he is running for Lt. Governor of SC... I support Bill Conner, and if you're undecided or your candidate didn't make it to the run off, give Bill a look. I think he's the best man for the job.
voteconnor.com/
This caricature of Bill turned out pretty good until I tried to paint it... so don't judge Bill by my bad paint job.
Just trying some elephants from the Daily Zoo book... I liked the one reaching up... Looking forward to getting some sleep... stayed up way to late watching election returns...
Fourteen hours working at the polls today... this old lady is exhausted and disappointed in my fellow citizens... Called and talked to my Mom tonight... she works the polls in Georgia, their primary is in July. Off to bed for me....
I'll be working for 14 hours tomorrow as a poll manager for our SC primary election... hopefully I'll have a bit of time to do a sketch or two... but it'll be later before I get it posted. I voted today at headquarters, and sent an email out to all my friends letting them know they could stay home tomorrow since I'd taken care of making a selection for them... LOL
I've never been to Europe, I don't even have a passport. My father went there twice, 66 years ago he was on the beaches of France for D-Day. For the fifty year anniversary he and my mother went back to France. My Dad never talked about it much... he loved the movie 'Saving Private Ryan', he said that movie was the closest thing to what it was like that day.
It is HOT in Charleston today, Ron and I went to eat some grits and listen to politics this morning... grits and politics go together down here LOL... then work in the yard till the heat drove us inside.
I should have drawn a hockey player to commemorate my grand-daughter Ashton's first goal in a hockey game yesterday that her team won, and she was awarded the game puck to remember it by. I'm really proud of her, she is a great kid and a pretty good hockey player too.
I did this marsh runrise as my contribution to the Spirit of the Gulf Challenge... Find out about the Challenge here....
www.suzannemcdermott.com/2010/06/spirit-of-gulf-challenge...
Today is the three year anniversary of the removal of my right kidney and the clear cell carcinoma tumor inside. Every Day Really does Matter, I've had a great three years and I'm looking forward to being one of the 63% that survives to the 5 year mark... infinity and beyond...
I got two watercolor books today. 'Watercolor simplified' by Pat Weaver, I've checked this book out of the library 4 times... I finally decided to break down and buy a copy.. I love her color theory lessons and the demos in her book... Based on Lin Frye's recommendations after taking a workshop last year I also got "Watercolor without boundaries" by Karlyn Holman... this book I've only thumbed thru.. but I can already tell I'm going to really enjoy this one too.
I cooked up enough chicken for 4 meals... it tasted wonderful. This is our new charcoal grill, it works great for big stuff, not so good for small stuff (like 2 burgers)... for that we use our small grill that we take on Jeep trips.
This didn't work out as planned... I had wanted to paint my paint colors in the tubs on the left... but the ink pen I used proved not to be waterproof ink... oops... so I put the color samples elsewhere. You might wonder how I managed to use a pen with runny ink....
well ... it was a gift from a fellow sketcher... his favorite pen he said.
You see I was sitting at a political meeting with my tiny pocket sketch book, sketching the people ... the man sitting next to me noticed and told me he was an artist too, and he handed me his favorite pen... I made a few lines with it, and said 'ooo I like the smooth line this makes' and so he said 'keep it'... so of course I had to let him have my Pitt pen... which he tried and liked as well.
So today was the first time I tried to use the pen with a wash (that other book has no color just pen)... and discovered it runs... The pigment numbers for the two bottom colors for those keeping score are Pg 36 + Py110 for Hookers Green and PBk6 + Pg27 for Paynes Gray. I like to note the pigment of my paints, so that I know what I've got no matter what the manufacturer names the color. Most of my paints in this palette are Daniel Smith and Windsor Newton.
