Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Kai Kalama.
For me, it's the hair!Jazzin' it up with PhotoChopt.

Just for Fun

These were created for a friend from a scanned photo... click for larger. Had to find another kid's foot at the right angle, as his was cut off...

Adan in Giraffe Jail wasn't going well, so I put him outdoors...thank you to whomever took such a cute baby giraffe pic...I will try to find it again to give proper credit!

Old Ratty

Over a decade ago, I'd quickly made example tesselations & found several of them today. It appears that I was into Kimonos at the time. Perhaps funky shapes were easy to transform into bunched material or something... Yikes. This scanner blurs terribly and the color is off...

Brushes.

I finally decided to download several interesting brushes for Adobe; its been a slow process as I haven't installed the new hard drive yet...so nothing is working quite right. After several restarts, I finally managed to use some of them (grunge of course) for a card I am making....
Plus I found a tutorial on creating my own, though I could figure it out myself.

Jelly Progression

To demonstrate how freakin' long it takes to darken a pic with my favorite pens...here is several hours work just scratchin away...building up layers of black inkiness... a few inches at a time...ahhh. I see I must flatten the tops more like below...

Jellies, Giant. Waterworld 2.

Played with the Jellies from the Art Blog to see what a dark drawing would look like...this is quickly PhotoChopped. I also tried it with a large Sharpie and liked that outcome better...perhaps it was the fumes!

End of the road...

Driving is a time when the drone and monotony of the engine can give way to tears. Maybe it’s just ‘alone time’ when I have my thoughts to myself, or private time when I think too much. I remember my dad and think ‘life isn’t fair’; I think of my mom’s sadness which makes me sadder. If someone passing would see this river of tears, they’d probably call the Sheriff on the crazy lady sniveling down the road. I usually suck it up by the time I get where I’m going and force myself to think of the ‘here and now’.
So, on my way home from Manhattan, drudgerdly-low feelings began to converge…I recalled a year ago this Christmas week…reflecting on the excitement of a certain ‘crush’ and the thrilling feelings when he’d said, “I’ll call you before New Years!” Those simple words made me want to skip about like an enchanted teenager and despite that teeny taunting subconscious (“Yeah, right!”), I cradled that phone day and night. Yes, a delighted daze, you know, when your eyes shine nonstop in a bedazzled smile and joyous butterflies dance on your collarbones! A few days pass, then two more…. and the pleased smile is soon replaced by glitter tears while the butterflies trudge in your gut and low shoulders hunch in that downhill spiral…
Suck it up again…Oh such is life! You’d think one would know better by now!