These are my two latest completed projects. The horse is Music with Chris...the drawing is a gift for Trudi. It was their 10 anniversary a while back. Congrats ofcourse. Trudi took the photo I used for reference and I felt so inspired by it. Now the kittenses were just too cute to pass up taking a stab at drawing. It was fun to work out their little faces and assign imaginary personalities to each one as I worked on them.

My dragon project seems to have gone into hibernation for the time being. I am beginning to rethink the largeness of it. I am seriously considering scaling it down ...quite a lot. It is very and I really do mean VERY boring to work on something big, big, big and disjointed. Perhaps 11" by14" total is more sensible and will keep me interested and focussed on the task. I need to think and decide...I hate incomplete projects.

Here kitty kitty kitty. Drew this tiger while watching that brain sapping TV that I can't seem to avoid. At least it only gets part of my attention at any time. I have a new project on the go ....well actually 2 new projects. One is a colour pencil of a little girl which I only struggle along with at my desk 'cause colour is HARD to do. The other is one I can do in front of the TV again. It's a photo a friend took of her husband and her horse...I want to do it to give to her. She is a gifted artist herself in pastels. Anyway that's that.

This arabian horse is drawn from a photo stock library on wc. It is so striking in color (a brilliant chestnut) so I may give it a go in color pencil as well as this graphite rendering of it. I'll do a few unrelated projects first though to get a fresh perspective 'in color'. Graphite is my pet medium while all others are unpracticed and require waaaay more effort and thought while I work.

Well today I have added a corrected version of this horse. It was pointed out to me that the nose was twisted. Soooo, I fixed that and enlarged the nostrils to look better as well. I attempted to fix the harsh dark shadow under the head but had limited success lifting the graphite. So it goes.

Life is good. Camping is good. Fishing is good. Dog grooming is good. Art,in all forms and for all reasons, is good. Here are the latest of my art efforts...kitten and dog 1 and 2. Sigh!

And so back to art...here is the lioness now complete. Alas, the new kitten is at an artistic stand still....something does not look quite right with it. I did refresh my brain with a lovely picnic on an island across the lake...rubadubdub 3 dogs in a tub...what fun!! And, at last I have returned to the dragon. I've gotten a start on one of the wings. I am determined to keep on track...maybe.

Zero effort on dragon....100% effort on enjoying life and all the natural beauty that surrounds me daily. The lake was like glass today! Otherwise, artistically, I have a lioness completed but not scanned as yet and have moved on to another kitten.

I haven't been doing anything on the dragon for sooo long. I have done a couple of projects while on camping trips though .... kitten and lion. Not enough hours in a day it seems. The weather has been excellant for the duration so we have to enjoy it while it's good. Our grandson visited for a week and much fun was had instead of art work.