PROBABLY WON'T POST HERE ANYMORE

But fixed my problem by creating a new blog, a three column one.

Here is the "link" ....link.

It will be awhile before I get it just as I want it.

totally screwed things up

It's way too involved to explain how, but in essence, I had to revert to "classic" template because when I copied the code from another site which allowed you to use their template, it put code in back to this guys home page...weird...anyway, ...I'll figure out what to do in awhile.

FOUND A NEW TEMPLATE I LIKE

And now will have to rebuilt link list. I was able to let my widgets go because I want to re-do the links with only those I visit regularly for the most part. I saved off all my links so I still have a list of where I like to visit. When you import a new template from a site outside of blogger, you lose your widgets, that's the only downside to it. I need new inspiration so thought a new look would help. I'm going to sit with this one for a few days before I decide if I like it enough to put time in on the link list. I'm also considering a three column template, so don't want to do too much until I've made my final decision which will have to stick for awhile.

ATTENTION ARTISTS

A little contest if you are interested, and I believe you can win $2,000 for a doodle..

line is here

WELL NOTHING IS STRAIGHT

The buildings are crooked, and ...I was trying to draw in a moving car and M kept hitting every bump in the road he could find I'm sure. I would start out doodling and these two came about because I didn't have an idea in mind or anything to look at. We were driving for miles and miles down the interstate 5 which is nothing but farm land. But it did make the trip go faster. A 6 to 7 hour trip felt more like 4. Each one was started when we took off and ended about an hour before our destination. The top one was going and the bottom one was coming home.

LAST NIGHT AFTER GETTING HOME FROM OUR TRIP

I watched the tribute to Michael. I went searching for a photo that I felt I wanted to try and draw. This was the pose I chose because to me it represented the Michael I loved watching and listening to.

On the long drive up to the bay area, I did a pen drawing in the car and then on the way home I did another one, so will be posting them later. I was just going to do a quick sketch on Michael and had started it on lined noteboook paper, and you can see the lines running through his face. I added some light around h im. I saw my new grandson and it was wonderful. Now I will be home again and back in my routines with no trips planned in the near future...maybe in a month or so.

scribbles in the car on the long drive

I was so bored on the drive between San Francisco to the central coast, that I started scribbling while M was driving. I didn't have anything in mind so somehow it just ended up to be some kind of semblance of buildings near water. I probably wouldn't have posted it but I'm so tired of seeing this last post up for over a week. We are taking off soon for another trip but thought I'd throw it up.

EXPERIMENTING WITH COLORED INKS

Kind of fun, going for a tissue paper look. I drew this out in pencil and wanted to see what would happen if I splatted water and let it drip and then dropped liquid ink on it. I was more careful on the face and took a brush to it slightly...it was just black and white pencil originally. Anyway, had fun playing with it. Her face looks better actually if you enlarge it, I like her eyes.

EVERY THIRD NIGHT

Every third night, Seamus hits the bottle. He has since 1942. When he met Mary in 1946 they had a whirlwind romance, tying the knot just three months later. Seamus has always loved his Irish Whiskey. No matter how much he and Mary have fought, how much she has threatened to leave him, he can't stay away from the whiskey more than a few days.

Every third night Seamus meets his friends at a bar down on 15th and Vine in Kansas City. They talk about their lives, they complain about their women, and yet they all eventually go home and make amends to the wife. At some point they all agree that they better get on home before the locks are changed on their doors.

Seamus comes in and lies across Mary's bed as she is watching The Donna Reed show reruns. She has long since learned to quickly forgive him so he will leave her be to finish up her program in time for the late show.

There are perks to being married 60 plus years and the biggest one is that they understand each other and have accepted that it's just the way it is, nothing more nothing less, and yet they still play the game of him apologizing and she forgiving. Life rolls on.

OWL

On this one I started out taking my time but then got real bored, very quickly with the feathers, so it's kind of a sloppy drawing.

But..I'm back in the groove of drawing again I hope. Cloudy quiet day here so hoping I can sketch out some more drawings..

ICELANDIC FALCON AND EMU

About time to put something up.

I tired of drawing cats for awhile so went back to birds.

I have a couple more drawings to put up but that will have to wait until the next time
I get on my other computer.

I had a nice visit with my sis and her family, and since then just been kind of blah because of the weather.
We are on week four of low clouds and fog with barely little sun. The sun actually came out
this afternoon, just to remind us what it looks like, but the weather report is saying
about three to four more days of cloudy weather and maybe some rain.

At the end of the week we will be heading up to the central coast so I'm
hoping it will be sunny.

And that's all the news I can come up with. If anybody has exciting news to share I'd
love to hear it. I could live vicariously through you.

These two were done with watercolor and ink.

NEED SOME COLOR

My sister is coming into town today so don't know how much I'll be drawing. Felt the need for
some color on the blog since I've been doing so much pencil drawings.

I forgot I had drawn Allison sometime last year.

I think I see some sunshine peeking out. I've missed the sun so today will be a good day!