Wilson's First Christmas

Ok, so i made the dogs wear the silly antler ears...but they are slowly getting along and getting to know each other. ONe thing they have in common right away is MOOCHING!

off to NY and visiting the family...needless to say Christmas day was only partially relaxing, as i had to get ready for this trip as well as we had to figure out all the 'stuff' we need to take for two beasties...thanks for the invite Vick...just got too hard for us to get it all done and get out the door.

Hope everyone's Christmas was wonderful and peace came into your lives.

Newest memeber of the family - Wilson !!!!

Thrash caving...

the new littlest dude, Wilson, napping. He was abused and a stray, saved by the local Boston Terrier Rescue. We think he was burned, and is very scared in his new environment. But we hope love will bring him around, Lord knows we are showing him much TLC.

more pix to follow

Offically Winter

Yes, I broke down and put the hard top on the jeep. sad but true, i have succumbed to the cold weather and officially declared it winter

a quick thought at Christmas time

my gift to you all....in my heart forever.

Bill B's Jacket

Well over a year ago Bill, from Huntsville, wanted me to do some art on the jacket he wears when he does iron pours for his brother's sculpture class. It happens once every one or two years and they go a a foundry. This year I plan to go down there as well to participate. but i digress....I drew the art, incorporating things Bill wanted in there, and got the jacket. I was so afraid i would screw it up, i delayed starting it. Till finally, I just did it. !! I might add a few highlights but basically it is done and ready to go back to him. Now i just have to motivate myself to find a box to ship it back. Hmmmmmm, where did i put all those boxes now.

back to sketching my meeting models :-)

Once again strangeness , Strangeland , meetings and fighting to stay awake with tremendous headache has lead my pen to capture a subject and then drift off into the recessess of the scary part of my creative brain......i need time off !

New works of abstract folk art

I am still painting on anything that moves....so i guess that is folk art, since this wood came from the basement of my parents home. but i call it sielski art !

hangin' my own art...

I thought i would hang this on the way to the downstairs to complement the fish mural, which i didn't do, on the wall at the lake house. if no one buys my art, hell, i'll hang it in my own damn house. and at this rate, i might be looking for a 3rd house, or just a big old enpty warehouse...LOL

wonder no more where my art comes from...

i've framed and kept two piece of art my dad did and i took a long time ago, each of a horse - a head and a Pegasus. And i knew that back in the day, when they used to have silhouettes in the paper for folks to try and draw, you know the "do you have talent and want to go to art school " (showng my age, huh?) I drew few myself, but knew my parents had also. And i knew that I had seen these before, however this time home, Mom gave the stack to me. A present of the past to treasure and attempt to preseve.

Mom's Art
Dad's art and the certificate from a mail in art school. This is just one of the drawings he did.
I got the whole stack of drawings they both did, and it was quite interesting. A temptress, a dog, flowers, birds, shillotettes, old girl friends, cartoons...a lot, and yet not enough. I have many many sketch books filled with stuff from back when i was a child to the postings here on this blog. But none are so precious as the aged drawings in pencil and charcol that Mom and Dad had done. A look back into their lives, before me and yet, so very relavent.

and I wonder no more where the art drive and talent, yes talent, came from.

finished art...abstract plus

more wanderings into the abstract side

Thanksgiving...

More photos on facebook and on my flickr account..but this kind of sums some of it up...not all, but some.

art in progress...

as you can see this one ain't done, but working on it, adn taking a different turn for the experiments...abstract art meets folks art on yet another kitchen cabinet door salvaged from Habitat for Humanities, ReStore.

Death of a squirrel and new art...

One of the many squirrels around the house that has given up its stuffing for the amusment of the little bitty beastie..this was this mornings latest disembowelment, and I swear I am goint to round them all up and take a graveyard picture of them...



and on the newlife side, yesterday was a haif coiffing day , a stop at Michael's only to find a huge sale going on ['nuff said, you know i bought stuff], and then a stop at the Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, where i wonder the stuff looking for raw material for inspiration and repurposeful art materials...so, here is another work in progress

more art class nudes

the photo's sux because i used my cell camera instead of a real one. Experimenting with what is called Conte crayons..trying to get used to them and use my fingers as a blending stick. So now i have greys and blacks and browns all over my hands. Guess i should wash em before bed time, huh?

some of my work on display for sale

Calender toons 2008

more from the strange side

sketches from life

quick study sketches while sitting at the church crafts bazaar this past weekend. Biz was slow, so I had much time to think and draw...plus chat with some amazing artists as well.

Yoh, ready for the Greatful Dead tour

And this was from a meeting 2 weeks ago.......
If you wonder why I draw some strange stuff in meetings, YOU try and sit for hours on your butt in some hard ass chairs! It's like a bad acid trip

backwards order, but Morning coffee Time

Not only do engineers talk all the time....LOL...so does Ruby. some taking heads during meetings and some tired hallucinations as well.

Can one person talk at a time, Please?!

Every been to a meeting that is full of engineers and adult ADD , so that during a briefing and a comment is made, all of a sudden several conversations erupt, everyone is trying to make their point, cutting other people off and all you hear is blah blah blah blah ......

Cedric Jr is getting ready to go home!

Get back to work !!!! Checking email in the morning !
For those of you who think travel is exotic, this is a cleaned up room version of what Cedric has to deal with when he travels with me....Bah humbug...
last day in Melbourne Florida and off to Orlando tonite then HOME

Don't go Mommy...

My little boz jumped in the office chair, where my work computer is right now, after he saw me bring down my suitcase, getting ready to blast off for travel yet again. I lost track of him and when i walked in the office here at home, this is the sad face that greeted me.

He misses his mommy as much as mommy misses him....travel sux.

Seton Crafters Fall Bazaaar this coming weekend

I finished some of my re purposed art just in time for the St Elizabeth Ann Seton church Fall Bazaar and Crafts fair, that i have done for a few years now with my neighbor Kelly. Its in Lake Ridge on Valleywood Drive, if you are so inclined to come and check it and me out. :-)

hours are Sat 0900AM - 2:00 PM and 6:00- 8:00 PM
and Sunday is 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Not a huge fair, but each year they have had interesting things for sale by local and some NC vendors.

Strangeland Revisited...

What if Disco weren't really dead, would you go out and dance to it?

Fly the Friendly Skies

This is what you get when you can't finish the crossword puzzle you have and your books and sketch books are in your backpack up in the bin and you have a window seat.....

The questions are simple, the answers are not

What if you knew you wouldn't get caught, would you?

What if you loved someone who couldn't love you back, would you still love them?

What if the love of your life was happier without you, would you be happy for them? would you have the strength to move on as well?

What if you had a chance to make a a difference in a strangers life, would you? could you?

What if you only had a year to live, would you live your life differently? and if you would, why aren't you living that life now?

What if you had just one chance to go back and do a 'do over', would you? What would it be?

What if the thing(s) that you loved the most, were gone from your life, what would you do?

What if you had something serious on your mind, and walked into a field of beautiful flowers, could you stop and enjoy the moment of beauty?

Cedric, Senior

Introducing Cedric , Sr.....I want one of these!

A t ypical English dinner

My friends here in Huntsville, Bill and Joyce B, invited me to the house for a 'typical' English dinner...and what an experience ! Meat, roasted potatoes, mashed turnips and carrots and in the back there, mushed peas! and oh yes, Yorkshire pudding, everything served with gravy.

And I must say, i enjoyed every morsel of it , plus the fact that I know Joyce busted butt to fix it for me and to showcase her native country's cuisine.


My plate...just before I was about to dig in...bon Appetite!

PS - the one thing i forgot to capture was desert, and I can't pronounce it much less know how to spell it.

back to VA tomorrow and hopefully able to post some of the drawings I did while on travel

Food from the road

It's true that when you travel you always end up eating too much or eating fast food crap. Wake up, dress, hotel breakfast, meetings, lunch usually at fast food or sit down place, meetings, big meal or fast food...urg...

so last night in the big meal category, me and my colleagues went to a great little place called Paulis....steak and game and wonderful wine and escargot ! I forgot to take pix of the escargot but you get the idea of the steak, scallops and tuna we all had.

My Cowboy steak...yum yum
Ted Z's Tuna, what a presentation of food
Ryan , shown here and my govie Thadd , had the scallops....needless to say the plates were all pretty clean when we were all done

Art class nude

this is just a 20 min pose. the 1 hr pose is too big for my ity bity scanner

well for the second time, i attended my open life drawing class. this time, with a wee bit of experience under my belt i started drawing like a pro, warming up with the one minute poses, concentrating on parts that i have trouble with, etc. I wanted to scan the 1 hour pose, which is the same from week to week to give the painters in the group a continuous pose to keep working on. but i started from scratch again, and had a plan to rough out the whole body, working on all the proportions, so i didn;t draw a mis shapened dwarf again, and then work on the detail. HA - the parts I got right fixed the previous drawing errors, but I made new ones.....so i went and bought some new pencils and charcols. that should make me sketch better, don't ya think?

What if....musings while sketching -art class

1 min pose sketch....enhanced a bit with a little Photoshop.


"Musings while living"

What if you had a cell phone and it never rang?
What if you landed at a familiar airport, but nobody was there to greet you?
What if you had something important to say, would anyone listen?
What if your friends can't confide their fears and joys to you, would you still confide yours?
What if the hole in your heart never healed, could you try love again?
What if you let hurt overcome emotion, would you still hang on to hurt?
What if you are ready to face your demons, but they left town?
What if hurts never healed?
What if living in the past means your present has not significance?
What if you gave a party , and no one came?
What if you went to a party and you were the only one who came?
What if the parent now has now to become the child?
What if all the conversations you had with people from now on were doomed to be only superficial?
What if you tried to have a heavy conversation, but found you knowledge superficial?
What if you never 'got' poetry, would you still read it?
What if good is not good enough?
What if you did the right thing all your life, but found out it really wasn't right?
What if you realized you took a wrong turn in life, would you fix it?


"my love where ever I go, I take you with me..." Melissa Etheridge

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