Oh Buoy !

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 It's been awhile since I posted on this site as I'm enjoying

 classes and post mostly on my flick site which you

 can go to up on the left...

A Red Touch

I stopped after three additional

red add ons....Natually, Papa Hoodoo

liked his name there best....he said the Voodoo

blood drops might be too scary

and the heart wasn't edgy

enough... I forgot to say I tried my

new Noodlers fountain type

pen on this assignment and liked

the feel of it...used Noodler's

Lexington Gray ink. I read where

you can add water to make it lighter gray...

The Poet's View

This is in Ireland when the bus broke down---our little class

had time to do some quick sketching and I added

color to mine back at the hotel. Probably the first scenic

I have ever done that I can recall..but those

patchwork fields demanded it of me and

the poem also begged me to write

it all down--what is happening each

day I am way over there in Ireland.

Before I return home I plan to show

you the poem which I can not think of nor read

without it getting to me...

and so I sat on the ancient stone bench

and started to feel the words..

"IRISH JUMPING HAIR'

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"Sitting Boat"

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this is the inside front cover of a new sketchbook

which will contain mostly Ireland memories of

a trip I took and now I am taking an Imaginary one in

an on-class with Laure Ferlita....

I am doing the work on watercolor paper

and gluing it into this blank journal

bought years ago..

this particular sketch was started with

watercolor pencils but completed with

my acrylics I am more comfortable

using..

It's funny what will stay in your

memory forever---but this old boat

suddenly there... close to the road instead of

being far away across the

sweeping field to my left in

the sea.....

well that was awesome to me, being

in Ireland at the time...

Red Moon Over Second Empire

The altered photo I thought

would give the players a hard time....

I mught as well have used this one

One of my favorite old Victorian houses in town

which I just used in my facebook "guess where" photos

for local people to enjoy..I did disguise it to make

it a challenge and they got it right

off anyway. I love Second Empire

architecture..

crepes and crikey

Above is my breakfast today---some wonderful crepes made with whole wheat

flour (from Cooks .com) filled with flavored lite cream cheese and chopped

walnuts....topped with lite syrup, more nuts and bit of parsley for color
seems heavenly to find a way to enjoy such a treat that I can

make myself...looked better not sliced for a photo

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then below I get a chance to use the English (Cockney?) term

"Crikey ! "---for not moving myself a bit when

taking this horse photo---to eliminate the

tall grass thing in front of his nozzle... my brother in law

was elected for 10 terms I believe

and found a new use for the political signs