Wood Horse

Happy Chinese New Year, and welcome to the Year of the Wood Horse!

The textures I used for tonight's drawing are from these sites:

http://homemadewebsite.com/seamless-wood-texture-images-crazy-gallery-montanaesgr-home-3.html

http://homemadewebsite.com/seamless-wood-texture-images-crazy-gallery-montanaesgr-home.html

http://www.todevahouse.com/showcase-of-high-resolution-dark-wood-texture-designs-tutorialchip.html

Face Study

If you've been watching this blog for a while, you might have noticed I don't draw a lot of people. Why? Because I'm not very good at it! Tonight I was completely uninspired, so I did a Google image search for "face" and drew one of the random people who popped up.

 Drawn in Sketchbook Pro on a Samsung Note 8 using only the airbrush tool.

Little Known Monsters

Tonight I found out about four little known monsters that live all around us. I felt it was my duty to share this information so you could be watching out for them. If I see any of them, I'll be sure to post pictures of them on this blog.

There’s a creature they call the Bufar

That is found in the trunk of your car

And his bad attitude

Means that when you buy food

He will lick every bottle and jar

And then there’s the wee Pallaroo

Who’s so small she will hide in a shoe

And her turning and twitching

Makes your foot begin itching

When there’s nothing at all you can do

The elusive, enormous Ezonne

Is a critter the size of a lawn

It’s so skinny and flat

That it’s hard to look at

Cause it turns so it’s always edge on

In your home the Flatoulli is found

Who will wait till your friends are around

And when there’s a pause

In the quiet, he’ll cause

You to make an embarrassing sound

Paper Shuttle

I would still go in a second, given the chance. In the meantime, I'm content to let my imagination do the flying. We'll just have to see where it takes us.

Poppies

In memoriam:
Apollo 1 - January 27, 1967 - Grissom, White, Chaffee
STS-51L - Challenger - January 28, 1986 - Scobee, Smith, Onizuka, Resnik, McNair, Jarvis, McAuliffe
STS-107 - Columbia - February 1, 2003 - Husband, McCool, Brown, Chawla, Anderson, Clark, Ramon

Snowy Praise

Today we had a snow day from church! I don't remember ever having church cancelled due to bad weather, but I'm not complaining. I went right back to sleep under my nice, warm electric blanket. As I was drifting off, this popped into my half-asleep brain...

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

Praise Him agove for all this snow

I get to stay here warm as toast
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost

Chilly Penguin

I was outside today, shoveling the snow (again!) with more coming down and the wind blowing it all back in my face. It was so unpleasant, I even saw this guy bundled up against the weather...

In My Shell

My oldest daughter is super excited about having a friend spend the night, which of course makes my younger daughter feel left out and fussy about having to go to bed at her normal time. I figure if I just keep my head down, all the drama will blow over soon.

Polar Vortex

This Polar Vortex has to go

I’m getting sick of all this snow

And shoveling! It wears me out

I turn around and want to shout

Cause all the snow has blown right back

I want to curl up in the sack

And sleep until June rolls around

And grass is covering the ground

But then, of course, I’ll have to mow

Around and round, and row by row

While sweat is pouring off of me

Because that darn humidity

Is 95 percent, or more

While temperatures can’t help but soar

And at that time I might reflect

And even hope to resurrect

A day from winter, long since past

To feel again that icy blast

I’d love it then, but now - no way!

With frostbite dangers every day

And icicles as tall as me

While weathermen on the TV

Proclaim the temp’s relentless fall

Throughout the night, and worst of all

The wind chill’s 25 below

This Polar Vortex has to go!

Snowy Owls

Tonight at church we had a family "Cookies and Canvas" night where we were led through the creation of our own acrylic paintings. This was my first attempt at painting with acrylics, and while the finished picture isn't wildly original (in other words, almost everyone reading this probably has their own version of it!), it was fun to learn something new.