So did you watch the Super Bowl? The final two minutes were incredible! Loved Katy Perry's "tiger"! What a SUPER Bowl!
We ate too much junk food!
Monday, February 2, 2015
February 1. 2015
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So did you watch the Super Bowl? The final two minutes were incredible! Loved Katy Perry's "tiger"! What a SUPER Bowl!
We ate too much junk food!
So did you watch the Super Bowl? The final two minutes were incredible! Loved Katy Perry's "tiger"! What a SUPER Bowl!
We ate too much junk food!
January 31, 2015
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My nephew is in love with his little girl, and why shouldn't he be? She is so cute! He posted a photo of her in a star costume that was so cute, with her eyes shut tight and her pompom boots, I had to draw her. I made her into the star that she is! Dream big, little star!
My nephew is in love with his little girl, and why shouldn't he be? She is so cute! He posted a photo of her in a star costume that was so cute, with her eyes shut tight and her pompom boots, I had to draw her. I made her into the star that she is! Dream big, little star!
January 30, 2015
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While reminiscing about our camping trips I thought about another bear encounter. We had often camped at Yosemite National Park, but avoided the valley where it was so packed with people. A favorite spot was White Wolf campgrounds situated within the park, but out of the valley off of the Tioga Road at about 8,000 feet elevation on the way to Tuolomne Meadows. The campground is next to and above the Hetch Hetchy Valley where problem bears from the valley were relocated to.
If you are not familiar with the history of Hetch Hetchy, but would like to know more, please click on the link. It was a twin of the Yosemite Valley, but to the heart break of naturalist, John Muir, it was dammed and flooded to provide water for San Francisco.
I've always wanted to see Hetch Hetchy, so my husband and I decided to take a day hike to see it. About half way on our hike, we saw a bear running toward us. My brave husband grabbed my shoulders and placed me in front of him. I really wasn't afraid as I could see that this was a young bear. It was probably a yearling, first time on his own and he was scared. He was running away from something. I explained this to my husband, but he just wanted to go back to camp. Before we could do anything, a young couple came running after the bear. They were chasing it, but stopped to talk to us. They thought that it was funny to chase a bear. I told them that it was mean of them to do that, the poor thing!
We never got to complete our hike. My husband instead drove to the Hetch Hetchy dam so that I could see the valley. The view was not as spectacular as the one that we would have had on our hike above the valley, but it was beautiful none the less.
While reminiscing about our camping trips I thought about another bear encounter. We had often camped at Yosemite National Park, but avoided the valley where it was so packed with people. A favorite spot was White Wolf campgrounds situated within the park, but out of the valley off of the Tioga Road at about 8,000 feet elevation on the way to Tuolomne Meadows. The campground is next to and above the Hetch Hetchy Valley where problem bears from the valley were relocated to.
If you are not familiar with the history of Hetch Hetchy, but would like to know more, please click on the link. It was a twin of the Yosemite Valley, but to the heart break of naturalist, John Muir, it was dammed and flooded to provide water for San Francisco.
I've always wanted to see Hetch Hetchy, so my husband and I decided to take a day hike to see it. About half way on our hike, we saw a bear running toward us. My brave husband grabbed my shoulders and placed me in front of him. I really wasn't afraid as I could see that this was a young bear. It was probably a yearling, first time on his own and he was scared. He was running away from something. I explained this to my husband, but he just wanted to go back to camp. Before we could do anything, a young couple came running after the bear. They were chasing it, but stopped to talk to us. They thought that it was funny to chase a bear. I told them that it was mean of them to do that, the poor thing!
We never got to complete our hike. My husband instead drove to the Hetch Hetchy dam so that I could see the valley. The view was not as spectacular as the one that we would have had on our hike above the valley, but it was beautiful none the less.
January 29, 2015
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After yesterday's ketch of a bear and reminiscences of my bear encounters, I was also thinking of all of the backpacking and camping trips that I've gone on.
One of our favorite destinations was Kings Canyon National Park, just below Sequoia National Park.
We liked to go camping there because it was not as crowded as Sequoia or Yosemite parks. Kings Canyon is in it's own canyon and has a road separate from the one to Sequoia to get to it. A beautiful river runs through the canyon. My husband, an avid fisherman, loved to stop and fish for rainbow trout while I explored the shoreline to identify plants and sketch them. On one of his fishing excursions, he had bent down to pick something up and his pipe slipped out of his shirt pocket and into the water. It was gone! With the current and depth of the water, it was quickly carried down stream. He was devastated. It was his favorite, a beautiful, ebony bowl and stem, covered in a sterling silver filigree. It was a gift from me for his birthday. I tried to find another one like it, but It was awhile ago that I had bought it and I never could find one like it again.
After yesterday's ketch of a bear and reminiscences of my bear encounters, I was also thinking of all of the backpacking and camping trips that I've gone on.
One of our favorite destinations was Kings Canyon National Park, just below Sequoia National Park.
We liked to go camping there because it was not as crowded as Sequoia or Yosemite parks. Kings Canyon is in it's own canyon and has a road separate from the one to Sequoia to get to it. A beautiful river runs through the canyon. My husband, an avid fisherman, loved to stop and fish for rainbow trout while I explored the shoreline to identify plants and sketch them. On one of his fishing excursions, he had bent down to pick something up and his pipe slipped out of his shirt pocket and into the water. It was gone! With the current and depth of the water, it was quickly carried down stream. He was devastated. It was his favorite, a beautiful, ebony bowl and stem, covered in a sterling silver filigree. It was a gift from me for his birthday. I tried to find another one like it, but It was awhile ago that I had bought it and I never could find one like it again.
Jauary 29, 2015
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Bears are classified with the caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. While bears are mostly carnivores, the polar bear is entirely carnivore, the panda lives on bamboo, the remainding bears are omnivorous with varied diets. Although all wind animals are unpredictable, bears are really smart, at least the ones that I've encountered.
Cheryl, one of my sisters, and I were backpacking with a large group out of Yosemite National Park, when a pile of trash was pointed out to us by the ranger that was walking with us. "That", he pointed to the pile, "are bear droppings." There was aluminum foil and other unidentified objects in the pile. Apparently bears will eat anything that smells good. Bears learn from their mothers and we were instructed to just surrender out backpacks if a bear came after it. No problem!
At our first stop for the night, we were instructed to hang all of our food, (including our tooth paste and gum) in the trees, ten feet from the trunk of the tree, ten feet off of the ground. Most of us hung our food bags on the tree limbs, but two of the hikers hung theirs over a chain that was strung between two trees, installed by the park service for hikers to hang their food. Because there was bear droppings sighted in the area, through the night we took turns watching for bears wanting to raid our camp.When they came near we made loud noises by clanging our pots and lids together to drive the bears away. At first it was funny, but it happened all night and it got old in the wee hours. Cheryl and I fell asleep eventually.
In the morning, all seemed well despite the long night. But we soon discovered that the two hikers that had hung their food bags over the chain got their food stolen by the bears. Apparently the mother bear had two cubs. She told her cubs to each climb up the trees that the chain was connected to. The mother bear stood under the bags and then she instructed her cubs to walk out onto the branches on each side of the chain to weigh the chain down low enough for the mother to grab the bags. This was a behavior that was passed on from one generation to the next. At some point a bear had figured out how that chain works, depress the limb that the chain is attached to and the bags that are attached to it would drop lower. Our bears grabbed the bags so fast that the two men who had their watch then could not stop them. We had to share out food with the unfortunate hikers.
Other people along the trail were pretty friendly too, sharing what they had with who every needed it.
Bears are not really mean, but they are wild and very smart!
Bears are classified with the caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. While bears are mostly carnivores, the polar bear is entirely carnivore, the panda lives on bamboo, the remainding bears are omnivorous with varied diets. Although all wind animals are unpredictable, bears are really smart, at least the ones that I've encountered.
Cheryl, one of my sisters, and I were backpacking with a large group out of Yosemite National Park, when a pile of trash was pointed out to us by the ranger that was walking with us. "That", he pointed to the pile, "are bear droppings." There was aluminum foil and other unidentified objects in the pile. Apparently bears will eat anything that smells good. Bears learn from their mothers and we were instructed to just surrender out backpacks if a bear came after it. No problem!
At our first stop for the night, we were instructed to hang all of our food, (including our tooth paste and gum) in the trees, ten feet from the trunk of the tree, ten feet off of the ground. Most of us hung our food bags on the tree limbs, but two of the hikers hung theirs over a chain that was strung between two trees, installed by the park service for hikers to hang their food. Because there was bear droppings sighted in the area, through the night we took turns watching for bears wanting to raid our camp.When they came near we made loud noises by clanging our pots and lids together to drive the bears away. At first it was funny, but it happened all night and it got old in the wee hours. Cheryl and I fell asleep eventually.
In the morning, all seemed well despite the long night. But we soon discovered that the two hikers that had hung their food bags over the chain got their food stolen by the bears. Apparently the mother bear had two cubs. She told her cubs to each climb up the trees that the chain was connected to. The mother bear stood under the bags and then she instructed her cubs to walk out onto the branches on each side of the chain to weigh the chain down low enough for the mother to grab the bags. This was a behavior that was passed on from one generation to the next. At some point a bear had figured out how that chain works, depress the limb that the chain is attached to and the bags that are attached to it would drop lower. Our bears grabbed the bags so fast that the two men who had their watch then could not stop them. We had to share out food with the unfortunate hikers.
Other people along the trail were pretty friendly too, sharing what they had with who every needed it.
Bears are not really mean, but they are wild and very smart!
January 27, 2015
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I had choir practice this evening, so I had a shower early and I washed my hair. When I got out, my sister had brought mom back from her doctor's appointment. She said that mom still had things in the trunk, so I went out with her to help bring some things in. I ended standing outside with very wet hair, talking to her.
This evening I had a head ache. Probably a sinus head ache, but it felt like a nail in my forehead! I gotta remember not to do that again.
I had choir practice this evening, so I had a shower early and I washed my hair. When I got out, my sister had brought mom back from her doctor's appointment. She said that mom still had things in the trunk, so I went out with her to help bring some things in. I ended standing outside with very wet hair, talking to her.
This evening I had a head ache. Probably a sinus head ache, but it felt like a nail in my forehead! I gotta remember not to do that again.
January 25, 2015
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I had started a version of this sketch the day before last but realized too late that I would not be able to finish it. I had found photos of this lake in India, Loktak Lake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loktak_Lake
It looked like an art earthwork sculpture, like the one by Robert Smithson on the Great Salt Lake in Utah, called, "Sprial Jetty." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Jetty
As you can see, it is unique, in that these are ring configurations in the lake and are natural, not man made. Those rings are actually called, "phumdi", organic mass of vegetation, soil and vegetative matter in various states of decomposition floating on top of the water. It is unique to this lake and vital to the endangered, "Bow antler deer" that feed on it. This biomass is large and dense enough for humans and animals to travel on.
Then there is Zhangjiajie National Forest Park the inspiration for the movie, Avatar's Floating Mountains. These mountainsin China are not floating, of course. but the interesting formations and the prevalent fog makes them look that way. I thought to combine the lake and the mountains and a bit of fog to create an otherworldly landscape. Painted in Photoshop.
I had started a version of this sketch the day before last but realized too late that I would not be able to finish it. I had found photos of this lake in India, Loktak Lake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loktak_Lake
It looked like an art earthwork sculpture, like the one by Robert Smithson on the Great Salt Lake in Utah, called, "Sprial Jetty." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Jetty
As you can see, it is unique, in that these are ring configurations in the lake and are natural, not man made. Those rings are actually called, "phumdi", organic mass of vegetation, soil and vegetative matter in various states of decomposition floating on top of the water. It is unique to this lake and vital to the endangered, "Bow antler deer" that feed on it. This biomass is large and dense enough for humans and animals to travel on.
Then there is Zhangjiajie National Forest Park the inspiration for the movie, Avatar's Floating Mountains. These mountainsin China are not floating, of course. but the interesting formations and the prevalent fog makes them look that way. I thought to combine the lake and the mountains and a bit of fog to create an otherworldly landscape. Painted in Photoshop.
January 24, 2015
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I didn't get a sketch out yesterday because I was trying to draw something larger, more complicated than I could finish in one day. After realizing this, when it was clear that there was no way that I was going to finish it, I started a simpler composition. But it was too late to finish it too, so I said, "Forget it," and went to bed!
What I started too late was this mountain lion. I had heard that the nearby town of Roseville had a mountain lion sighting.
Mountain lions, cougars, pumas, catamounts, like raccoon, coyotes and deer have often been sighted within urban areas. But mountain lions are actually solitary, nocturnal animals. They need about 30 square miles to live in. While there have been attacks on people, they usually avoid humans and we hardly ever see them. Like domestic cats, they will chase a moving object, like a mountain biker or a runner. The best thing to do when encountering a big cat is to stand your ground and make yourself look larger and make lots of noise.
They do avoid people. When I was staying with my sister in Colorado, we saw lots of mountain lion tracks around the house. My sister and her husband live on 40, hard to access acres. They get lots of wildlife out there. I used to take walks everyday around there and never saw a mountain lion. I did hear one however. I had two large dogs that went with me where ever I went. On one of my walks, we were walking under a grove of small trees I had the distinct feeling that we were being watched. As soon as we walked out of the grove, the cat screamed at us. While I have no illusion that one of these cats could take down and kill a large dog, I was confident that this cat was not going to come after us. It was just mad that we were trespassing in it's area.
Another year, this same sister said that she had a brief encounter with a mountain lion. It bounded off of her front deck at dusk when she flipped on the porch light to go to barbecue a plate of hamburgers.
While backpacking with a group, a ranger told us about how he loved to take long hikes in the evening in Yosemite. On one of those hikes, a mountain lion followed him all along the entire hike, from the Yosemite valley floor to the Tuolumne Meadows. I always thought that an evening hike like that would be fun!
http://www.nps.gov/yose/naturescience/tuolumne.htm
So the mountain lion is not really a scary animal, but one that we need to learn how to live with in an ever expanding human population. https://www.dfg.ca.gov/keepmewild/lion.html
http://www.defenders.org/mountain-lion/basic-facts
So I drew a mountain lion.
I didn't get a sketch out yesterday because I was trying to draw something larger, more complicated than I could finish in one day. After realizing this, when it was clear that there was no way that I was going to finish it, I started a simpler composition. But it was too late to finish it too, so I said, "Forget it," and went to bed!
What I started too late was this mountain lion. I had heard that the nearby town of Roseville had a mountain lion sighting.
Mountain lions, cougars, pumas, catamounts, like raccoon, coyotes and deer have often been sighted within urban areas. But mountain lions are actually solitary, nocturnal animals. They need about 30 square miles to live in. While there have been attacks on people, they usually avoid humans and we hardly ever see them. Like domestic cats, they will chase a moving object, like a mountain biker or a runner. The best thing to do when encountering a big cat is to stand your ground and make yourself look larger and make lots of noise.
They do avoid people. When I was staying with my sister in Colorado, we saw lots of mountain lion tracks around the house. My sister and her husband live on 40, hard to access acres. They get lots of wildlife out there. I used to take walks everyday around there and never saw a mountain lion. I did hear one however. I had two large dogs that went with me where ever I went. On one of my walks, we were walking under a grove of small trees I had the distinct feeling that we were being watched. As soon as we walked out of the grove, the cat screamed at us. While I have no illusion that one of these cats could take down and kill a large dog, I was confident that this cat was not going to come after us. It was just mad that we were trespassing in it's area.
Another year, this same sister said that she had a brief encounter with a mountain lion. It bounded off of her front deck at dusk when she flipped on the porch light to go to barbecue a plate of hamburgers.
While backpacking with a group, a ranger told us about how he loved to take long hikes in the evening in Yosemite. On one of those hikes, a mountain lion followed him all along the entire hike, from the Yosemite valley floor to the Tuolumne Meadows. I always thought that an evening hike like that would be fun!
http://www.nps.gov/yose/naturescience/tuolumne.htm
So the mountain lion is not really a scary animal, but one that we need to learn how to live with in an ever expanding human population. https://www.dfg.ca.gov/keepmewild/lion.html
http://www.defenders.org/mountain-lion/basic-facts
So I drew a mountain lion.
January 22, 2015
1-22-15
Raccoons are very intelligent, adaptable and are omnivores, they will eat anything. At one time, in the 1930's, they were considered to be used in the lab to study, but the raccoons figured out how to open their cages, stole things out of the technicians' lab coat pockets and got into the ventilation duct system. They paws are very sensitive. They can feel things and manipulate objects. They learn from experience and from demonstration. The kits, young raccoons, learn how to do things from their mothers. They remember how to do a task for up to three years. They prefer to live in deciduous woodland areas, but can live anywhere. It's no wonder that raccoons have invaded our urban areas.
A couple of weeks ago, Tulip got me up around 1:00 a.m. to go out. She bolted out and immediately ran into something that she was viciously barking at. I went out to see what was going on, worried that it was one of the feral cats. I heard something that was making unusual noises at her. It was bigger than a cat and it scurried off when I went out. I grabbed at the dog as it scrambled over the fence. After that I stopped leaving cat food over night.
This evening about 7:00 p.m., I heard a commotion out side the back, sliding glass door in a sheltered overhang where I have tender plants and the cat food during the day. As I looked out of the window, two masked faces turned toward me. There were two large raccoons looking for food in the empty cat food bowls .Apparently they knew that there was food here, but since I stopped leaving out at night, they thought to check if there was food out earlier in the evening. I had to tap on the glass before they would run away. So we have raccoons. I guessed that there were skunks and rats, the feral cats take care of them, but I never would think that we would have raccoons too!
Raccoons are very intelligent, adaptable and are omnivores, they will eat anything. At one time, in the 1930's, they were considered to be used in the lab to study, but the raccoons figured out how to open their cages, stole things out of the technicians' lab coat pockets and got into the ventilation duct system. They paws are very sensitive. They can feel things and manipulate objects. They learn from experience and from demonstration. The kits, young raccoons, learn how to do things from their mothers. They remember how to do a task for up to three years. They prefer to live in deciduous woodland areas, but can live anywhere. It's no wonder that raccoons have invaded our urban areas.
A couple of weeks ago, Tulip got me up around 1:00 a.m. to go out. She bolted out and immediately ran into something that she was viciously barking at. I went out to see what was going on, worried that it was one of the feral cats. I heard something that was making unusual noises at her. It was bigger than a cat and it scurried off when I went out. I grabbed at the dog as it scrambled over the fence. After that I stopped leaving cat food over night.
This evening about 7:00 p.m., I heard a commotion out side the back, sliding glass door in a sheltered overhang where I have tender plants and the cat food during the day. As I looked out of the window, two masked faces turned toward me. There were two large raccoons looking for food in the empty cat food bowls .Apparently they knew that there was food here, but since I stopped leaving out at night, they thought to check if there was food out earlier in the evening. I had to tap on the glass before they would run away. So we have raccoons. I guessed that there were skunks and rats, the feral cats take care of them, but I never would think that we would have raccoons too!
January 21, 2015
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One of my sisters, who lives in Colorado is selling her calligraphy with clip art illustrations to embellish her writing. The problem is that clip art is taken from old prints so they are also royalty free. That a good thing that you don't have to pay the artist for the work because it is so old and they were usually public images. They were used in broadsheets(large scale newspapers) as advertisements or printed informational pamphlets.
Before the printing press, everything was handwritten and often hand drawn.You had to be very rich to own a book. Sometime in the 1600's the printing press was invented and images were reproduced from wood cuts,slabs of wood carved with an image and inked to have paper applied to it to relieve a reverse image.
By the 1800's printing was booming and there emerged a wealthy, well educated middle class, eager for news of the world. Journalism and novels and books became popular and affordable.
The images were now etched onto metal plates to be reproduced for print. The metal plates lasted longer than the wood cuts, but which ever the media, repeated use made the images blurred as the edges of the carvings,or etchings became soft and the ink lines became less crisp.
It is these images, taken from old printed sources that my sister is using for her clip art. She wanted me to enhance then to make them have more depth because they looked so flat. I've attached the original image that she sent to me and if you look at it closely, you can see that the image is very mushy. (1AGREATER CROWN2)
The only way that I could make them better as to redraw them. I did the first one, a crown, sword and an olive branch. I tried to do a tracing in Illustrator, but the image had so many variation of color with in the shapes that it still looked terrible. I had to draw each shape in the image and color them. Because there are created in Illustrator, they are vectors and can be resized to any size without distortion or pixelation. I did two versions, one with lines (1AGREATER-CROWN2-web) and one without lines, but with gradients (1AGREATER-CROWN2-.no-line) These attached images that I had made are compressed so these may look a little textured. I hope that she can use them!
One of my sisters, who lives in Colorado is selling her calligraphy with clip art illustrations to embellish her writing. The problem is that clip art is taken from old prints so they are also royalty free. That a good thing that you don't have to pay the artist for the work because it is so old and they were usually public images. They were used in broadsheets(large scale newspapers) as advertisements or printed informational pamphlets.
Before the printing press, everything was handwritten and often hand drawn.You had to be very rich to own a book. Sometime in the 1600's the printing press was invented and images were reproduced from wood cuts,slabs of wood carved with an image and inked to have paper applied to it to relieve a reverse image.
By the 1800's printing was booming and there emerged a wealthy, well educated middle class, eager for news of the world. Journalism and novels and books became popular and affordable.
The images were now etched onto metal plates to be reproduced for print. The metal plates lasted longer than the wood cuts, but which ever the media, repeated use made the images blurred as the edges of the carvings,or etchings became soft and the ink lines became less crisp.
It is these images, taken from old printed sources that my sister is using for her clip art. She wanted me to enhance then to make them have more depth because they looked so flat. I've attached the original image that she sent to me and if you look at it closely, you can see that the image is very mushy. (1AGREATER CROWN2)
The only way that I could make them better as to redraw them. I did the first one, a crown, sword and an olive branch. I tried to do a tracing in Illustrator, but the image had so many variation of color with in the shapes that it still looked terrible. I had to draw each shape in the image and color them. Because there are created in Illustrator, they are vectors and can be resized to any size without distortion or pixelation. I did two versions, one with lines (1AGREATER-CROWN2-web) and one without lines, but with gradients (1AGREATER-CROWN2-.no-line) These attached images that I had made are compressed so these may look a little textured. I hope that she can use them!
January 20, 2015
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My apologies for not getting out a sketch yesterday. I spent all day trying to figure out what was wrong with my drawing programs. None of them would work, even though they would open. It turns out that I had to increase the cache in the open GL to ge able to render and it looks like there were some bugs that got implanted into the program temp files.
This is what I wanted to play with, one of the photos that I took with my sister as the sun was setting in Paso Robles. There were still some good looking clouds and we wanted to see what kind of images that we could get as the setting sun painted the sky.
In this sketch, I wanted to concentrate on rendering the clouds. I seem to have more success with painting them with oils on canvas. I can move and glaze the paint to get the effect that I want. With digital painting, I guess that I don't quite have the hang of the tools to get the effect that I want. I could have used pre-made brushes to help the effects, but I wanted to see what I could do with just drawing everything.
My apologies for not getting out a sketch yesterday. I spent all day trying to figure out what was wrong with my drawing programs. None of them would work, even though they would open. It turns out that I had to increase the cache in the open GL to ge able to render and it looks like there were some bugs that got implanted into the program temp files.
This is what I wanted to play with, one of the photos that I took with my sister as the sun was setting in Paso Robles. There were still some good looking clouds and we wanted to see what kind of images that we could get as the setting sun painted the sky.
In this sketch, I wanted to concentrate on rendering the clouds. I seem to have more success with painting them with oils on canvas. I can move and glaze the paint to get the effect that I want. With digital painting, I guess that I don't quite have the hang of the tools to get the effect that I want. I could have used pre-made brushes to help the effects, but I wanted to see what I could do with just drawing everything.
January 18, 2015
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Mom and I got to watch a couple of wonderful movies this weekend. One of them is a little movie that I had never heard about, except for a little mention at the Golden Globes. It is called "The Hundred Foot Journey", about an Indian family who had lost their family restaurant and matriarch to a riotous fire. They wander Europe in an old car to find a new place to reestablish their business, but their car breaks down near a little town in France. This is a wonderful story about love, passion and food. I was inspired to cook something Indian.
When my husband and I were in England, we stumbled onto a little Indian restaurant in, of all things, Sherwood Forest. It was, by far, the best food that we had eaten during our three month stay in all of England and we didn't even know what we were eating! We just asked them to make us their best dishes.
Besides curry, the only other food that I do know that I love is Nan flat bread and Matar Paneer, or peas and a type of fresh cheese, like a compact cottage cheese that doesn't melt.
Here is a recipe for it and a little drawing of matar paneer.
http://food.ndtv.com/recipe-matar-paneer-100464
And how to make paneer:
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-paneer-cheese-in-30-minutes-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-57008
January 17, 2015
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I've always thought that Morocco would be a great place to visit and shop! The area has a rich history and exotic culture. Although it is part of the northern Africa and Western Sahara, it has beautiful beaches and snow capped mountains.
I just think about the paintings of Eugène Delacroix.(one of my favorite artists) and movies likeCasablanca, Babel, Queen of the Desert, The Desert Song (1929), The Adventures of Tintin and of course, Ishtar.
I did this image in Photoshop again. I only had so much time to finish it, but there are so many things that I could have added to the scene!
January 16, 2015
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It was overcast and in some areas drizzly. I got outside, in the back yard and noticed all of the weeds beginning to sprout everywhere. I love the look of things growing early in the season, even the weeds. They opportunistically pop up where ever there is a bit of bare soil, carpeting along the fence and in between tones or in potted plants. I love their overall texture of various shapes and shades of green. Some of these weeds are edible and some medically beneficial.A couple of years ago I found some Prunella vulgaris (known as common self-heal or heal-all) and transplanted it into a pot. Within a short time, it had invaded most of it's neighboring pots. I had to pull most of it out, but used some of it in a tea.
This early in the season, self-heal does not bloom and is still a little dormant, but I did find this pretty little Carolina geranium. This plant doesn't have much benefit, that I know of. I spent some time pulling it and some grasses that were happily growing along the fence. They are all pretty now, but it is much easier to pull them out now while the roots haven't had a chance to get a good hold of the ground. Soon they will all grow tall and coarse and will refuse to be pulled out! Lots more to do now out there!
January 15, 2015
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I thought that I would try to draw Bryan again because my sister said that the last one really didn't look too much like him. This one was taken from a photo that he sent to me of him in an Assassin's Creed costume. In the background, I thought that a little sketch of Venetian buildings over the water might set the mood.
I thought that I would try to draw Bryan again because my sister said that the last one really didn't look too much like him. This one was taken from a photo that he sent to me of him in an Assassin's Creed costume. In the background, I thought that a little sketch of Venetian buildings over the water might set the mood.
January 14, 2015
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I felt good enough to go to Costo to get some things that we needed get mom a walk. I was a little cool out side, but that large space inside the building was the perfect venue for a little walk.
While looking at the fresh fish, I looked up to see an old friend! Cat is the instructor at the gym and I haven't been going there for quite awhile because I get sick every time that I do. It was so good to see her again! She was telling me of the cardio that they included in the "Body Pump" class, a weight lifting class that she teaches.
I would love to go back again if I could just keep from getting sick again! Got to call a new doctor again and find out why I keep getting sick!
The steamed cod with baked potato and squash was good!
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