Oct13Art

Slept late, breakfast in bed, played with Ron's new radio controlled truck (a birthday present).  I threw a little paint on some paper, and did a couple of loads of laundry. Ron cooked dinner and went grocery shopping with me.  That's it a slow Sunday in the sLow Country.

Oct12Art

We dressed appropriately but my feet still got cold tonight.  It was a good game and our goalie lasted in the shoot out thru 7 rounds, which was was better than I expected he'd do.  Our power play stinks, Greenville scored 2 short handed goals tonight.
Did a painting this morning, but when I removed the masking... discovered some blobs that I really don't like... so I'll try again.  This is another Birgit O'Connor DVD exercise.

Oct11Art

Preseason hockey started tonight, boy I forgot how COLD the ice rink is, so did Ron.  I wore a long sleeved t-shirt, wished I'd brought a sweat shirt and my gloves.  Ron actually had goose bumps on his arms, since he has to get up at 3am to go to work tomorrow we left at the end of the second period.   The Stingrays were winning 2 to 1, hope they hang on an win the game but a 1 point lead is no guarantee in hockey.

Oct10Art

Pre-season hockey game tomorrow... finally.. just in time for Ron's birthday tomorrow.  He's going to be sixty tomorrow... all birthday's with a zero in them are significant these days.  The leaves are starting to change, the dogwood tree leaves are a brownish red color, the maple tree has mottled leaves, mostly green with bits of yellow and orange.  The crepe myrtle is loosing it's leaves while one of my hibiscus bushes produced it's very first bloom today.  The other two hibiscus production of flowers has finally started to taper off, yet today the yellow one had 5 blooms, I don't expect them to keep it up much longer. To prune or not to prune are the discussions we are having these days.... I'm for pruning, Ron is for letting them be.  

Oct09Art

The cool weather continues, at least the rain cleared out and we had a sunny day today. May have to put my flip flops up, and wear real shoes :-(  I wear flip flops until my feet get cold, and today my feet were cold.

Oct08Art

Saw this Navajo proverb on Facebook... I really liked it on a lot of levels... so I had to include it in my journal.  Then I looked around for Navajo art I could use, found this bear which I almost got correct.

Oct07Art

Long day today... I hate driving in the rain, and it did nothing but rain today uggg.  Johnny Carson was one of my favorite late night show hosts,  haven't really gotten into watching anyone else since him.

Oct06Art

Can you see the ghost of the lizard from yesterday?  I can... I really do not like the paper in this sketchbook, don't think I'll be getting another one.  Lots of artists love these Stillman & Birn sketchbooks.  I have tried an Epsilon and this is a Beta... I was not particularly impressed with either one, nor am I impressed with the price... so I'm done with them.

Misty Still Water painting...

Finished this today.  It is based on a lesson in Birgit O'Connor's DVD on Artist Network TV.  I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out.

Oct05Art

Saw this interesting lizard on our gray garbage can this afternoon... Ron seemed to think it was the same as all our little green one, and just changed to gray in color because of where he was... but our green lizards don't have a stripe down their back like this one did.  We're seeing lots of lizards and frogs this Fall, they seem to love hanging out on our motorcycles... so much so that I now check for frogs before leaving the yard on the scooter.  We're off to a town hall meeting with Congressman Mark Sanford tonight.

Oct04Art

Haven't done a drawing of Beau in a while, as he's gotten older (he's 16 now) he spends most of the day sleeping beside me while I work on the computer.  It is pretty easy now to sketch him, but still he knows somehow that I'm looking at him... just a little too intently... I barely finished this drawing before he looked at me, got up and left to lay in the hall just out of my line of sight.  Smart little dog, doesn't want me drawing him LOL.

Oct03Art

Ron made pork ribs on the grill tonight, so good I ate way too much. While he was cooking I plucked a leaf off the crepe myrtle to paint.  I got it too dark, it is actually a bright yellow orange on one side.  

Oct02Art

Whoot whoot it's Hump Day! Sadly I didn't see that ad even once today... it is one of my favorites.  So now that I'm done with my trees, deciding what to draw is a struggle.  Today ice tea, a staple in the South.  I used to drink it loaded with sugar, but since I found out I'm diabetic, now I drink it un-sweetened.  I don't particularly like artificial sweeteners, so I've developed a taste for tea straight, a bit of lemon but otherwise, just tea and ice.  

Oct01Art

Went shopping tonight, pumpkins everywhere... and what did I spy... Christmas trees (artificial of course)... Just makes you shake your head.
The US government shutdown today, because the Democrat controlled Senate hasn't passed a budget in over 4 years.  The Republicans in the house, tried to take advantage of the temporary 'continuing resolution' but Harry Reid would have none of it, he'd rather put 800,000 government workers out of work than do his job and pass a budget.  Right now there is plenty of blame to pass around, but the real issue in my opinion is that the Senate Democrats need to pass a budget and be done with it.