March14Art

The Stingrays, beat the Gwinnett team 6 - 0 to break the ECHL league record of 17 wins in a row tonight.  It was an exciting game and to top it off Ron and I won the drawing for Season Ticket holder of the night.  Our prize was a $50 gift certificate to Dick's Sporting goods.
I got a box of art supplies from Dick Blick today, with this new Quin Pink, I like it a lot.  I also ordered some Montana Acrylic markers, tried to mix them as I only got the 3 primary colors… disappointed they do not mix, they run when you wet them, but the colors do not blend.  Got a softcover Strathmore journal… that soft cover is VERY soft, so I don't think it will work for an out and about journal.  Need to order another journal soon because this one is almost finished.

March13Art

Are you superstitious?  Friday the 13th reminds me of those silly horror movies of the same name, but that's about it.  I watched another Koosje Koene video on lettering and banners today so I tried my hand at a banner and lettering.
Ron and I are listening to the Swingrays hockey game in Gwinnett on the internet, at the end of the 2nd period we ahead 3 = 0.

Mar12Art

Spring took a break today and the cold winds from Canada blew in… brrr… and I was so close to getting my shorts out of storage.  Wore my flip flops even anyway.  This page has no basis in reality, mostly I was throwing paint or trying to.  Tip natural hair brushes HOLD the water and paint, making splatter difficult, synthetic brushes release the paint drops MUCH better.

Mar11Art

It was predicted this morning for 82 to be the high, but at our house it got up to 85 today.  The house thermostat kicked on the air conditioner today, and it got so warm in the computer room I turned on the window A/C in there too today.  Gracie and I took a nice walk to the park before lunch today.  I love Spring and Fall, too cold in the Winter and too HOT in the Summer for a lunchtime walk.

Mar10Art

Signs of Spring in our yard today, the resident Mockingbird was trying to drive the  cardinals away, and he did appear successful in distracting the male, but the female remained pecking about under the Sugar Maple tree unimpressed with the fight going on over her head in the tree.

Mar09Art

Always tough the Monday morning after we change to Daylight savings time, today was no different.  Sketchbook Skool assignment, draw a tree, I couldn't get it together to draw the whole tree, so a branch will have to do.  #art4all #sketchbookskool 

Mar08Art

Sometimes things go in a direction that you did not plan for or see coming at all.  I had every intention of drawing a girl's face and painting it with watercolor.  However, I drug my hand across the pupil of her eyes and it smeared a black streak across her cheek, well the only way to cover up black ink is with acrylic paint, I only have a few colors, and don't really know much about using it either…. but it did cover up the black streaks.  It was a gorgeous day in Charleston today.

Mar07Art

Spring forward, on the clocks tonight, and Spring was back in Charleston today.  Blue sky, warm weather, not as warm as last Wednesday, but nice enough for a short ride this morning. We went to the Blessing of the bikes this morning, Ron stayed for the Hog meeting, I had another meeting to go to.  We went to the Flea Market to get some patches sewed onto our leather vests.  Wings and beer at Hooters, and home in time to listen to the hockey game on the internet, another win for our boys, so now 15 wins in a row.

Mar06Art

Stingrays beat the Gwinett, Ga. team tonight 5 to 1, for their 14th win in a row.  These boys are on fire. Back in January, I would not have given them a chance of making the play offs, today, if they stay healthy and keep playing like this they have the potential to go all the way.
I broke out some stencils I bought a while back and some liquid acrylic paint, the pink, blue and yellow on this page is that paint and stencil.  I used a Kuratake felt tip pen to do the letters and gouache for the white.  I believe this is my very first mixed media page whoo hoo.  It was fun.

Mar05Art

Another great day today, raining started around 7pm, but up until then, it was a taste of Spring in Charleston today. Another lunch time outing for Gracie and I, I discovered my neighbors daffodils are in full bloom, wonder why mine aren't blooming yet?

Mar04Art

Gracie and I took a walk to the park during lunch break today, just gorgeous weather here today.  My day lilies are peeking out of the ground about 1/4 inch, my daffodils are up but no buds yet.  The tulip trees at the park are covered in buds, and I saw one flower open.  Spring is coming folks, if we can just hang on a little longer Winter will be over.

Mar03Art

When I was a little girl we called these fish Carp, more colorful than catfish, and not edible like my favorite catfish.  As an adult I discovered that some people call these Koi and keep them in ponds in their gardens.  They are fun to draw and paint.  My stitches are scheduled to come out next Tuesday, 7 days from now.  This is what my hand looks like on Day 5, the swelling in my fingers has gone down a lot, and except for my little finger most are back to normal.  I haven't tried to put my wedding ring back on yet, maybe tomorrow. I think it looks better but it's still pretty ugly, guess my career as a hand model is over now LOL.

Mar02Art

Just another thing I cannot do right now…so my knitting waits for two good hands, as does my flute.  I read somewhere that a fellow in the hospital, with broken arms and legs in traction requested a qwerty keyboard be displayed on the ceiling so that he could study typing as he lay there.  He imagined his hands on the keyboard and taught himself to type during the months he was in traction.  When his casts came off… he could indeed type over 90 words a minute just from imagining that he was typing.  Wonder if that would work on my flute practice?  Couldn't hurt, could it?

Mar01Art

Someone sent this 'Common Core Math' problem to me, I thought it was funny, and so… today just words, and math word problems. As long as I hold my hand very still and don't try to use it, it doesn't hurt.  I am discovering how hard it is to do anything with just one hand.  I'm feeling lucky that the hand I can use is my dominant right, but I still miss my left hand A LOT.  I can 'touch type' without looking at the keys, I've been able to do that for well over 50 years… but, when I have to type using just one hand, I must hunt and peck, it's like I don't know where the keys are if I can't use both hands.