Call me Beet Red

If you had any idea how hard I have been working to upload a decent sized image, then you'd probably either say, good job, Faye, or, you're totally nuts to keep at something that long. What purpose does it serve? None, but if you're like me and you've started something, you just want to finish it. In some kind of order that works. More or less.

This little sketch was a lot of fun for me because it is very much like what I have been doing with paper, paint, and watercolor pencils. In this piece, I used a different program for watercolors, and another for the pencil work. The surprising part to me, is how alike the finished pieces are. Very much alike. So I am happy to put up something that is large enough to see, even though I am not sure the technique I used is 'correct'. Blogger has its' own ideas about jpgs, and so forth. Anyway, working back and forth between the watercolor and the pencils was very time consuming, but much easier than using 'regular' materials for me. No clean up when I am done, and no start up either, for that matter. The hardest part is learning what I am doing!

This all started because I wanted to draw some funny pictures for Baya and ZZ, and they are so very easy to please. They love my fish with Maxxes' face, my ZZ drawn with a green face and a butterfly body, their imaginations fill in the pieces easily. No wonder we play so nicely together...

And oh, there is no such thing as 'the Apple Command Key'. Just don't ask. Poor me, poor Lucky, her wonderful lessons, and I blew it after all... well tonight I have been given off from learning anything else, and that is that. But thanks anyway, I still feel like I should have stayed back in 5th grade after all...