Here are three: Sammy, my hand, & Deimos.
Phobos is next…
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Archive for 2008
Drawings!
February 3rd, 2008 by trish
Filed under Drawings & Making Marks.
When it rains…
January 31st, 2008 by trish
Filed under Animal Advocacy, Drawings & Making Marks, Heart, Ramblings.
…need I complete this sentence?
Jon is in NY with his mom because his sister is ill with cancer. His mom’s husband is in the hospital recovering from a quadruple bypass. Our good friends down the road just returned from the hospital with their one-year old who is still trying to get over a bout of pneumonia. Jenny’s dog continues to wear the cone because her tummy is stapled with stitches. Our roof is still leaking from all the rain that has fallen these past few days (yes, it is also literally pouring).
And the storm for me came when I took Siwa to the vet for a routine dental. They discovered two large golf-ball sized masses in her mouth that was responsible for her drooling and recent foul breath (hence the impetus to get her teeth cleaned). The vet thinks it’s melanoma. She won’t know for certain ’til next week. I fear and am expecting that her diagnosis is right – what else can explain the sudden foul breath, especially since the vet saw Siwa in December for her routine checkup and shots, and she was given a clean bill of health?
Siwa will be 12 on Valentine’s Day. I fully expect her to live for a while longer. I hope I am not disappointed.
Expect to see more drawings of the sweetest creature I have ever known:
A drawing a day?
January 30th, 2008 by trish
Filed under Drawings & Making Marks, Heart, Play.
A design in progress & a ‘cupla drawrings
January 29th, 2008 by trish
Filed under Drawings & Making Marks, Play, Web Design.
The itchy fingers are scratched but once again (!) I’ve managed to make myself more busy than I really wanted to…
I’m working on a personal web project that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now. I’ve promised the Santa Fe Etching Club that I would make them a website all these years, and FINALLY, I’m getting to it. Here’s a sneak peek:
I have plenty to do still – like gathering images of etchings from the artists, and their bios, but heck, it’s a start! It’s also my first pure CSS liquid layout! (This means absolutely nothing to everyone but web designers.)
And, I started drawing again! Yay! Below are a couple (a quick gesture, and a more refined drawing of the same pose and model):
I’m getting itchy fingers…
January 17th, 2008 by trish
Filed under Drawings & Making Marks, Play.
So what do I do? I draw.
And even though I’m the least exciting person I know to model for me, I’m also the most accessible at ANY given moment. So, yes, I did another mirror image.
Besides, I really needed to update the image I had of me on the “About” page of this site. That drawing was done over a year ago, and my hair has grown quite a bit since then. Anyway, that’s the new drawing there, to the right.
It’s always an interesting exercise trying to get a likeness of a face that you think you know really well. I don’t know if I succeeded or not. Regardless, it’s what’s on my “About” page and my LinkedIn account.
The itchy fingers are still pretty itchy though. I’m hoping that attending the drawing groups at my local community college will soothe the fingers. They certainly can’t get all their satisfaction from these keyboards which seem to hog up most of their time. But I’ve already written about that in a previous post. I’ve signed up for portrait and figure drawing sessions. I will be posting those drawings on the site so, stay tuned.
In the meantime, I’m now just discovering the fascinating world of DeviantArt.com. Though I’ve known about this particular site for a couple of years now, my recent foray into Photoshop art led me here. I’ve spent too many countless hours this past week at that site, browsing the works of a number of Deviants.
Methinks I will be doing some art this year. (There’s a resolution if I’ve ever heard one!)