starting santa paws

Almost done with Sardine.  Have to fill in the background (green) under her belly before I finish her back leg and tail.  It makes a bubble if you skip around.  Tedious.  Been staring and staring at the pets haunches.  Trying to figure angle of fur for Sardine.  Finally took photos.

                                                  different angles: ummmmm

 back leg and tail:  then I'm done

More photos from this weekend.

Chimps would make a wonderful quilt.  I think I will send one of the cheetah's off to printer.  I use Sano Designs out of NY.

I can't believe these are my photos.

Spent the nite in Dallas. Dreaded coming home to my Lily. Neither Lily nor Maggie ate while I was gone. Liz ate so much she has diarrhea. The outsiders + blue jays went through a week of kibble. Lily brought out every toy from toy box. Moved couch away from wall (she's strong - looking for ball) and she brought out my underwear & sweaty t-shirt. I bet she was missing her mama. Went to butterfly museum and photo safari at zoo. Cathy our leader challenged us to have different photos than the person next to me.
more photos to follow.

I sit and stare

I sit and stare at my Guy.  Never done a human.  If I mess up on an animal I add more thread and its looks like "special" detail on fur.  Humans can't be done that way.  I have 2 black and whites and one color to practice on :  I still can't start.  Wait!!!!!! I can use color pencils.  Sometimes blogging is so cathartic.  Now I can begin...Have to go buy some colored pencils. Egads

                                                               posterized

I used to think artists did art from their head.  Now I know there is lots of prep time prior to the masterpiece

Cougar is done

And Lily wants to show you how to stay cool.  Remember to lay under the fan

photoshop 101. Saving to folders.

Took me all afternoon to find my Cajun.  So frustrated I even shampooed the carpet.  Haven't done much like dishes, dust, clean bathrooms, work on quilts because I'm so close to getting cougar done.  However I'm now getting ready for Santa Paws and Cajun.  Remember way back when when you made a photo copy of a photo copy and you lost clarity???  I felt the same way about digital photos.  So I broke up all my files and put flowers w. flowers, dogs w/ Max or Lily or Maggie etc. etc.  Then the technology caught up and I've gotten lazy.  I got files of birds, flowers and  cats together.  Vacation 1 with vacation 2 with quilts.  So now I leave original file in original file and make a copy of photo and put it into its proper file.  Darn it!!!!!  Only been doing that for a few months:  So, it took forever to find the Cajun:  Here is the photo for another  thread painted quilt:

                                        

Cajun oh Cajun: How do you do?

Getting ready to do my Cajun Guy from New Orleans.  Never did a guy before.  Never done a human before.  Never had a desire to do a human.....  I stare at him and stare at him.  Scared I won't get the angle of his face or arms right.  Whining to George last nite.  And, wined some more.   My dear husband:  (guys think so differently than us girls).  suggested I make a small version and practice.  But, his face is just a small part of photo.  So, I made an 8 x 10 of only his face to practice on.  What a great idea.  Looked at more face portraits.  Played in photo shop.  I have both a color and and black and white.  Maybe I need cheese w/ that whine!  Photos to follow.  Less than a quarter of the background left on  my cougar and she is done.