Saturday morning and I have a horrible cold...Came down with it yesterday and went to bed last night at 8 in the evening. I don't get sick and have no patience for it either...so it had better begone by tomorrow...

I hope to finish up my mixed media of roses today so I can hang it up....and I want to start my crow painting tutorial with Tim Gagnon...he is an amazing artist....

My darling Miss Cali Cat and mind you I use "darling" lightly. She is her daddy's girl and terrorizes me constantly; only loving when she sleeps by me in bed at night and she wants her treats or meals...hehehehe

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. - John Dobbin

today I finished a journal page...drawn face and embellished with added stamps, papers etc...
I seem to have a plan in the back of my heard where my project is going to end up and then I start it; needless to say my hands or something takes over and many times I am off in a completely different direction.
I am not down today but this journal sounds like I am...maybe my inner muse is down today and I just don't know it...somedays we don't speak to each other...hehehehe


What am I paying attention to? ...my attention is focused on the space between what I see, and what the paint is doing on the end of my brush Eleanor Blair

I have spent yesterday and this morning working on completing my Suzi Blu workshop first portrait of the Goddess...I am proud of myself because I cannot draw and Suzi is such an excellent teacher and broke everything down in little parts that it became easy and not overwhelming....I love my Goddess even though there are lots of little things wrong but hey, none of us are perfect so there you go.... I hope you enjoy her and realize that all things are possible...

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher)

after scanning your art you can really see where you have goofed up!! lol....Suzi does the
features first and then the lines to make the head....in Face #1 I did that and it looks much better; in face 2 I did the outline of the head first and I can see it is out of sync...and I can see other things to to correct..hmmmm great way of looking at unfinished work scan and correct....

Saturday was a lovely relaxing day with hubby as it was his birthday. Our daughter cooked a turkey dinner for us to celebrate Lorne's birthday. It was a fantastic dinner and we had great fun...the grandkids spoiled him of course and Jacob (Lorne taught him to play chess) beat his grandpa...birthday or not!!

Today, Sunday we went out grocery shopping oh man was it cold out there today....
When we got home I went to my studio and worked on these faces I have put up. I am doing a Suzi Blu workshop and enjoying it so much...Suzi makes everything fall in to place and drawing becomes an easy task to do...mind you I have to practice practice and so on but when I am finished a face I can see where I went wrong but.......it is a face.....next will be the hair and the colouring etc....I am just loving this workshop....

today's Inspiration

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do Myrtle Auvil