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That's what I'm going to practice doing. I love drawing the female figure, naturally. I have some trouble drawing male figures so I suppose I should draw those too. After my morning workout it's off to the art store to get more pencils. I can't beleive how fast I've blasted through my last batch.

I'm pretty happy with my Playing Horse pic. I'm not so happy with the rest but I posted them anyway so I can show my progression as I improve. Up until a month ago, it had been 11 years since I hadn't picked up a pencil to draw. Super long time. Fun times, traveling and boys got in the way of that. My husband and two boys keep me focused now a days.

I've drawn a few TF pics which I'm not so happy with but I think it's because I'm rushing...and well I'm just not that great at drawing them. I'll slow down and focus more on the details. I colored some things in photoshop which I love doing. I actually crashed my computer because of it. I hadn't realized what a resource hog PS was. I was hoping for a new PC but, lucky for me (I say that sarcastically) my husband is an IT guy and he brought back a new hard drive from work. Waaaaa. I'm trying to convince him to get me one of those PCs you can draw on. Lots of schmoozing going on right now.

And still no monsoon rains. Arrrggg. What we get are brush fires. Oh joy. I feel bad for California...they have 800+ fires burning. We just got our first one yesterday. It's burned a 1000 acres so far. Yikes.

Ok Off I go for the day.

They are arriv'in! Starting this weekend and I can't wait to see what they will bring. I love storms but that's because I've never lived in the midwest. I feel bad for those people. I'd hate storms if I lived there.

As for here, we get darkening skies, lightening, down pours, wind and blowing dust. My husband hates them. Not me. I run from window to window watching the chaos with giddy delight! We have super strong dust devils too and a few months back I was caught up in one. Now, in that case I did get a little freaked out but once it passed I was like "wow cool!"

So on to my art. I'm still doing what I know best and that's drawing. I've figured out how to color in Photoshop which turned out to be a lot easier than I thought. Also, a fellow artist directed me towards something called a Wacom Tablet. Some of you are reading this and asking what rock where you living under. All I have to say is I was busy. What I love about it is you can do the same thing on Photoshop but use a pen instead of a mouse. Not to mention have an endless array of colors to choose from. It's like having an endless supply of paint. I think I've spent a small fortune in paint. Now I won't have too. I definitely plan on hitting Santa up for one of those come Christmas time.

So I plug away at my art, learning new things. I love it! It makes me feel happy and alive, as all of you out there can relate.

Off I go. Check out the storm pics below...and these are the mild ones. In the last pic that's a branch blowing by.

And so it continues. Learning about photoshop. I still draw. That I can't stop. And I've started drawing Transformers...the G1 kind. Although I enjoy some of the other generations, G1 is what I started out with and continue to hold dear to my heart. Of course, I still draw more horses than anything. It's not that I don't enjoy drawing them, I just want to learn to draw other things. I do, however, have to continue to draw them otherwise my head will explode from all the horsey images running around in my brain. Luckily, it only takes me fifteen minutes to create a few...wow that actually sounds nasty. Ok, head out of gutter. So I have one that I plan on scanning into photoshop and coloring. I'll post the uncolored version tomorrow; the colored version will be posted when I figure out how to actually color it.

Right now it's late and I'm tired. I just wrote a little FF to get that out of my head too. But that's a never ending battle. So many stories to tell and so little time in the day to tell them.

I've often been told I think to much. I do, constantly. Enough of my rambling.

Ok. So I've updated three FF stories. Now I'm going to dedicated my time to drawing something other than horses....Transformers.

Today, I'm going to tactle photoshop. I know nothing about it. I've had it for several years now but after attempting to use it, I'd get frustrated and stop. Well, a few weeks ago I actually managed to make a collage of photos. I have no idea how I did that. I just found out through reading comments of some of my favorite TF art and googling it, that you can color things in Photoshop. My interest was peaked. Some of you photoshop experts out there are probably laughing at me right now. That's ok, though. I'm laughing with you.

My project for today is to take a pic of a Ford Shelby and color in the likeness of Jazz. Can I do it? I have no idea. Especially since I'm not good with directions. I figure things out by trying every button there is and then trying to remember what each one did after I went through them all.


Wish me luck.

And drink it down in rememberance of my father, who 4 years ago today at 10:34pm, passed away. This is a yearly ritual for family and friends who take a moment to remember the good times and the bad. Who pay tribute to an amazing artist, who crafted homes from paper to reality, to the muscian who kept the beat for many of the greats, to the loyal friend to many, and to the dedicated father and husband who loved his wife till the end. And in the end couldn't live without her.

Sorry Dad, it's not Patron. But it's still Tequila. Cheers.