My Latest Project

I'll start off by repeating what I've said before:  although house paint is easy and quick and goes on the wall oh-so smoothly.... the colors don't mix very well!  So you have to have your head screwed on straight, lest you make the mistake of mixing red and blue to get purple!  IT WON'T WORK!

Even so, with some careful thinking, and careful painting, the results can be quite pleasing!  Thank you, Adam and Angel, for letting me PLAY on your wall!!

I'd like to add a moment of thankfulness for this blog (that sounds funny for the AUTHOR of the blog to say, doesn't it?).  Not long ago the hard-drive on my computer died.  Dead.  Completely.   No reviving it.  And I hadn't backed up all my photos.  At least not recently.  So I took it to the local computer fix-it guys and asked them oh-so-nicely if they could PLEASE try to retrieve the photos off of the hard drive.  PRETTY PLEASE?!

Well, they only got some of them.  Deep breath.  The last year's worth of artwork was gone.

Until I remembered that I had posted most of it on this blog!!!  HOORAY!  I went and down-loaded the images off of here, and got them back on my computer... AND THEN BACKED UP THE WHOLE SHEBANG ON A REMOVABLE HARD-DRIVE.

And THEN, gave thanks to my God for His kindness!!!

COLOR!!!

This morning it was drippy, rainy, gray, cloudy, dismal....ech.  So I added COLOR, and it was a fabulous way to spend the morning!!

Today's Time Filler

Today I needed to get two propane tanks filled for our grill, and when I got there, there was a sign in the door indicating that the people were gone, and that they'd be back at 1:00.  Um.... it was 12:45.  So I drove over to a scenic hilltop nearby and sat and sketched.  First in pencil, then in ink.  I'll watercolor it sometime in the next week.

And where is this loveliness?  In the CEMETERY in Divide!!  It's up on the highest  point in Divide, and you can see forever in every direction.  So while the clouds built up higher and higher, I focused in on this delightful birdhouse in the middle of the aspen trees.  I call it "Summer Getaway". 

Playing

I went for a brief hike with a friend last week, and we sat down on the edge of this small... pond... lake... collection of water.  The sun couldn't figure out if it wanted to shine, and the wind couldn't figure out if it wanted to blow.  Despite the confusion in the weather, it was a delightful morning!!

This started off just pencil.  But a couple of days later I added the ink and watercolor from memory.  Which is why it says it's "my interpretation!"  Not going for accuracy here!