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I started a new painting (on canvas with brushes and oil paint) over the weekend and spent most of Sunday painting on it. Good fun. It's of our backyard in the new house. I find I paint best when I turn on good music and play it very loud. It's like it short-circuits the left-side of my brain.


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Rosie seems have caught the puke germs from Gareth who was sick a week ago. He seems to have caught them from Colleen who was sick two weeks ago. We had thought about driving down to the Cherry Blossom Festival so at least now we'll have a good excuse to stay in from the cold weather.

I hope the cycle will end here and that Avery and I will be ( Read more... )

Gareth is continually making up new bad guys (or good guys... it depends on how much he likes them after they are done) for his comics.

This is based on one of his latest ideas called Powercord. This poor guy was involved with some radiation accident (there tend to be a lot of radiation accidents in Gareth's stories. You'd think there would be ( Read more... )

Here are a couple of Rosie's paintings. I bought the top one for 10 cents. Maybe she'll have to make a website to sell her paintings. She needs money for candy.


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Finally dedicated some more time to my painting. I worked on the sky since it bothered me most of all the faults so far. Can't wait to paint in some of the orange sunny spots in the tree. Not sure how much of the bark texture to show with the orange. I spent too much time with the details of the leaves at first; it took me much effort to realize ( Read more... )

I've been working on a new landscape painting. I started on it on Father's Day--the entire day off to paint was part of a package of valuable gifts and prizes. This is the view from where my mom grew up. I played around the giant oak tree with Hotwheels when I was three. The tree was recently hit by some high winds, maybe a tornado and lost the ( Read more... )

Next segment of mitochondria movie, approaching the dramatic finale.


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Gareth and I spent the weekend camping with some of his cub scout den. The weather was perfect, warm during the day and cold at night. We hiked, cooked hot dogs/marshmallows over a fire and Gareth decided he loved whittling. I sketched while he and his friends whittled sharp sticks.
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