Archive > November 2008

gobble gobble

tomorrow is turkey day and i am off from school for 4 days…mike and i are celebrating not with a turkey but with a ham…
the shasta college faculty art show went up this week…it’s the 59th so far…i must say, with exception of Susan Schimke’s beautiful paintings, i was to say the least disappointed in [...]

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new specs

i got my new glasses this afternoon!  I can’t believe how much clearer everything is…it had gotten to the point where it was clearer to read without my glasses on…yay!  i can see again!
i am posting a work in progress…i have to work on Lilly, and Debbie and the tree in the background…overall i am [...]

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a gift to myself…merry xmas

as a well earned gift to myself i am ordering the complete set of 132 prismacolor pencils in december…it started out as the 72 set, and then i thought why not get the 120 set as it’s only 84$…and then i said oh heckeroo go for it…so i will order 132 prismacolor pencils and a [...]

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better write it down

we had another watercolor critique the other day…it went pretty good…the instructor (susan) said she felt like a dentist because she had to pull stuff out of everyone!  people gave some good constructive comments about what i could do to pull the partridge family even more together…john h., the other watercolor instructor, really likes this [...]

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checking in…

we have been off school for a three day weekend because of veteran’s day, which is really tomorrow…we, however, go to school tomorrow…i don’t get it either…
i am working on an oil painting of debbie and the munsters…after that i will begin the dick and jane series…haven’t worked everything out, but susan says when i [...]

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