Going to the birds

Well, not literally … I haven’t drawn much in the past two weeks. I’m on a migraine medication that has given me fuzzy vision when it comes to close up work.  Ah side effects, you have to love them. On the plus side, it has meant very few migraines!!!  But I haven’t been able to [...]

Cheek by beak

I have a terrible time with perspective. It often takes a couple of tries to get a particular aspect correct. A good example is the sketch of my little House Finch. The first one was coming along fine, until I hit his beak. Take a look: From Catpaw’s Art work – birds Beaks are a [...]

Puffin stuff

I am so excited about this news! I LOVE puffins. Since grade 3, when I made my first plasticine puffin I’ve been in love with them. You can keep your penguins, puffins are seriously cool birds – they swim AND fly so take that penguins. Plus the name is just plain fun to say – [...]

I’m depressed…

Yes… I am… totally depressed. My jam didn’t jam. We are canning fruit and veggies for winter along with some jam. Everything has been going along toodly fine. Well everything except my lovely peach jam. Sigh … guess I can use it as pie filling during the long cold months. It’s ever so depressing when [...]

A couple of new birds for you and running for cover

Wow did we get a storm yesterday!! Looks like a couple of funnel clouds touched down outside of Toronto and the high winds here in the Toronto area did tremendous amount of damage. About 22,000 people in the area are without hydro and hundreds have been evacuated because of damage done to natural gas lines. [...]

I’ll bet you wondered where I was

But building up to the entire bird is a different matter – a shredding matter. It’s nice to be able to hide the evidence of my first attempts. My wings are anembarrassment to the bird world.

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