What a poser!
Lawyers of the sea.
Hi Myrtle.
A sea of trees?
I should have Photoshopped some bubbles in that one.
I’m too sexy for my rock… too sexy for my rock… too sexy…
Stop, you’re making me blush!
Look Ma, no hands!
It’s like flying, only wetter. Also, little cousins may have been present at this time.
First time he was quiet all day. HA!
Basking in glory.
That bird knows a good photo-op spot.
No human or animals were harmed in the making of this blog post.
I swam with a sea turtle once, off Maui. Best day ever.
I feel pretty… oh so pretty…
Lunch time!!!
I am sensing an aquatic theme?
Maybe?
My favorite Italian meal? Turtle-ini.
Well, I thought it was funny.
That guy isn’t smiling.
Tough crowd.
Completely unruffled.
In my defense, I never said all the photos were of live animals. Also, if you held a goldfish in a glass bowl over that, they would probably just die from fright.
See, more nonliving animals.
Well, the gorilla and rose watercolors are coming along.
As are the watercolors of me and and the one of my mother, napping in the sun.
The one of my wife and I is still problematic.
And I have made progress on the acrylic paintings of another rose and my daughter, Mollie.
I have been using that digital image projector to do the sketching part of these paintings. Turns out that drawing the image isn’t the only hard part. Painting is hard too. Above, you see two of the pictures I am working on. They are both roses. One is an acrylic painting, and one is a watercolor.
That one is from a photo I took of my mom, falling asleep in a chair in her backyard. Remember, she was 99-years-old when I took it.
A watercolor of my wife and I, from a photo I took on our anniversary. She does not like to appear on the blog… and, to bee honest, the painting of her isn’t that good… yet.
Using the digital images means that I can not only use it to trace an object or person, but then I can put the image up on my laptop, and use that as a reference. I know, the rose in the photo is blue, but I used real wine to get that reddish color!
See, real wine! It has been mentioned that maybe I should warm up my rusty art skillz by doing something easier than roses and faces of real people. When do I ever listen?
The acrylic-painted rose is not any easier. Roses have deceptively difficult curls.
But the watercolors of me and my soul-brother are coming along.
I swear, I used to be good at art. But my first attempt at painting a real person- my daughter, Mollie, is not going so well.
Oh yeah… lokks just like her…
I know I just started, but…
Well, that is a little better. I will just keep working on it.
So far, I have figured out the easiest way to use it is to tape my future masterpieces to the sliding door, and then sketch the image that I am projecting.
I started off with a couple of watercolors. A gorilla from a photo I took at the zoo…
And this image of myself. Because… ME!
Now comes the easy part???
I love watching art come to life.
I mean, sometimes I get confused as to which picture is of which of us…
More to follow…
I do like the fat that I se wild animals at my job.
Young raccoons are so cute!
Sorry, buddy, I don’t know where your mom went either.
Parking lot coyote!
Dear republicans. You can no longer call yourselves the party of ‘law and order’.
You don’t get to shout “lock her up” at tRump rallies, knowing absolutely no facts about what she did, and whether or not it was actually illegal, and then turn around and say that all of the crimes tRump is facing are either frame-ups or worse, just not care that he broke laws.
It is bad enough to not believe in science, or climate change or vaccines or freedom of choice for women, but to not believe in laws? Or worse, to think that laws do not apply to your side at all?
There are lots of places in the world where laws are what the leaders say they are. And most of those places are ruled by people that tRump admires. So move to Russia. Or North Korea.
I am sure that your first thought was: wait, don’t you already have a small, hand-held digital microscope? And yes, I do. But this is next level. It has it’s own monitor.
And lights. And a few different lenses. And it takes not only photos, but videos as well. For… uh…. some reason.
That is a leaf under the lowest magnification lens. But the other lenses, well, expect to see some weird stuff.
Like baby aphids. And that photo I just took from the monitor with my phone camera.
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