Self Compassion

It's a crazy thing how much compassion we can have for others, yet we give ourselves so little of it. I really enjoyed pondering that and being intentional about giving myself a bit of compassion as well.

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This painting is part of a year-long online art class (instructor Shiloh Sophia McCloud).

To Infinity and Beyond

We love rockets! My little guy and his grandpa (my dad) have been building rockets for the past three years. They started with little ones no more than a foot tall and worked their way up to a big daddy rocket that is over ten feet tall. Since we love rockets so much, my dad likes to have some small rockets around so that the little kids can fly them, too. We print them out, cut on all sorts of dotted lines, glue them together, insert a motor and 3-2-1-BLASTOFF!

Recently he asked me to design the artwork for these special little rockets that are called qubits and I finally got around to doing it. You know how I love to use canvases as paint palettes, right? Well, this is an example of what I create using one of my palette canvases. My apologies for not taking any photos of my process...I spaced. (See what I did there?)

"To Infinity and Beyond"

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Jupiter on the Horizon - Part 2

A couple of our chickens have boo boos on the bottom of their feet. Thanks to the internet we were able to take care of them ourselves and the chickens seem fine and happy. Only thing is...they look like they're walking around with little ace bandages on. Seriously, they look like they've sprained their ankles. They're as adorable as a couple of chicken patients can be!

And I finished this painting. It's passed inspection by my brother and we'll just see what his little guy thinks. He's the expert, after all, and I just might have to do some corrections. Course I'd have to insist that I be able to do it on site...in California...right?!?! Maybe I need to put an error in there on purpose....

Hope he loves it!

Here's the finished painting and some steps leading up to it.

"Jupiter on the Horizon"

I started shadowing Jupiter and adding more details
to the foreground. I also added flame to a third volcano.

More darkening of the foreground and shadowing of Jupiter.

More shadowing of Jupiter and I made it more round.
I also added a lava river.

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Jupiter on the Horizon - Part 1

I happen to know a wonderful little guy who is crazy about space and volcanos. His lovely dad, who happens to be my brother, suggested a view of Jupiter from Io, one of its moons. And Io just so happens to be the most volcanic body in our universe. It's true...I looked it up! Win, win! And so, pushed once again out of my comfort zone, I started in on my first space picture since elementary school.

I started with Jupiter and the horizon of Io.

I added three volcanos.

I started layering color on the volcanos.

And more layering.

I decided that I wanted Jupiter to be bigger. I also worked on
the fire or whatever it is that shoots out of the top of volcanos and
began adding some texture to the surface of Io in the foreground.

I painted the surface of Jupiter and added lava.

I'm excited to keep working on and finish this painting for my favorite little astronomer! Fingers crossed that it passes inspection by his scientific eye!

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Up All Night

A couple of weeks ago a canvas was dropped off at my house. I'd been asked to create a piece of art to be part of a fundraiser for the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center. So here's what I came up with. I worked on it over about a week or so. I created the background first, and what always happens to me happened this time, too. I always, always manage to fall in love with the background. I can't even imagine painting over a single bit of it. So the background had to sit propped up on one of our chairs for about five days so I could enjoy it and fall just a bit out of love with it, enough so that I'd be willing to cover at least half of it up. But the wonderful thing is, as soon as I do cover up parts I end up loving the painting even more.

Oh, and the white polka dot stars wrap around the canvas on the edges!

This little guy and five stars and moon watching over him make me so, so happy. Hope it makes them a lot of money!

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A Lack of Space

I've been trying to teach an old dog a new trick.

The old dog being me, and the new trick being only using one space between sentences when I'm typing.

I have some friends who are editors and I keep hearing them griping about writers using the double space. I've kept my mouth shut as I, myself, am guilty of that double spacing. It's how I was taught thirty-two years ago when I took typing in high school. We practiced it, and practiced it, and practiced it. We were knocked down grade-wise if we didn't do a double space. So I was quite the good double spacer, of course.

But after a couple of months' effort, this old dog no longer double spaces. Yup, I'm rockin' the single space nearly 100% of the time.

I think I may go howl at the moon to celebrate.

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Space, the Final Frontier

Know how you know your sixteen-year-old kid has the most awesome friends possible in this universe of ours?

Well, you go outside and find a sock that their friend accidentally dropped in the driveway when he was leaving. And is it a tube sock with stripes? No. Is it a thick wool wintry sock? Nah, too practical. Is it an argyle sock? Nope, though that would be cool, too.

No, it's the most awesome Spock sock ever.  Yes, Spock sock. The sock...it looks like Spock, pointy ears and all. And that is awesome...and so is that kid.

Live long and prosper, people!

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