95 degrees F and Spoonflowering
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feng_shui_houseSo far, I am STILL keeping my New Year's Resolution of no procrastination. Either I work on something that's needed doing for a while, or I notice a small job and do it immediately. *fingers crossed*
I have to work on designs more- I have a custom request & I need to fill up a 30 design sampler to order that. Here's a few designs from the past 2 days.
A bat biologist wants to make bat curtains for her kitchen.
Pussycats, drawn in Sketchpad.
https://sketch.io/sketchpad/
Butterfly I drew in colored pencil from a photo I took. Of course, it took a lot of 'shopping to make it good for a design. I am quite pleased with it.
Fingers are cramped. Time for a change of pace, will go out back and fight the Asp. Fern some more. It's the never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Yard.
EDIT: In the few minutes it took me to write this post, temp went to 98 F... *whew*
Dug up some more, mostly I'm digging up the 5 ft tall 'sword' plants which are guarding the Asp. Fern against the house. Eventually I'll get to the Asp.
Came in and made another design from a colored pencil drawing I did yesterday. Maybe I'll make a little series of matching designs. I have a few more good butterfly photos I can maybe draw from. Put them all on the same background and they should look nice.
Great Southern White Butterfly
Temperature is now 85 F! Better take advantage of the 'cool'. Can you Dig it, Baby?
The drawing took forever- very detailed markings on this butterfly, and I got to the point erasing wasn't possible before I noticed the head and body were disproportionally large! ARG. It looks like a Dragonfly with butterfly wings. Not unattractive, but not real. SOoo, after I scanned I did a lot of tweaking with Photoshop Elements. So many tweaks, so many. The final result doesn't look that much like the drawing! But I like it, these butterflies are winding up with a nice, old-fashioned feeling.
Zebra Longwing butterfly
I had to stop digging when it grew dark, so didn't get to finish the area, but I did dig up a patch more than 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and about a foot deep (maybe 4 feet long to go). Much of the stuff I dug up went on the secondary compost heap. It's a mountain. ;^)
One day I shall dig under that compost heap and see how much soil has formed.
I have to work on designs more- I have a custom request & I need to fill up a 30 design sampler to order that. Here's a few designs from the past 2 days.
A bat biologist wants to make bat curtains for her kitchen.
Pussycats, drawn in Sketchpad.
https://sketch.io/sketchpad/
Butterfly I drew in colored pencil from a photo I took. Of course, it took a lot of 'shopping to make it good for a design. I am quite pleased with it.
Fingers are cramped. Time for a change of pace, will go out back and fight the Asp. Fern some more. It's the never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Yard.
EDIT: In the few minutes it took me to write this post, temp went to 98 F... *whew*
Dug up some more, mostly I'm digging up the 5 ft tall 'sword' plants which are guarding the Asp. Fern against the house. Eventually I'll get to the Asp.
Came in and made another design from a colored pencil drawing I did yesterday. Maybe I'll make a little series of matching designs. I have a few more good butterfly photos I can maybe draw from. Put them all on the same background and they should look nice.
Great Southern White Butterfly
Temperature is now 85 F! Better take advantage of the 'cool'. Can you Dig it, Baby?
The drawing took forever- very detailed markings on this butterfly, and I got to the point erasing wasn't possible before I noticed the head and body were disproportionally large! ARG. It looks like a Dragonfly with butterfly wings. Not unattractive, but not real. SOoo, after I scanned I did a lot of tweaking with Photoshop Elements. So many tweaks, so many. The final result doesn't look that much like the drawing! But I like it, these butterflies are winding up with a nice, old-fashioned feeling.
Zebra Longwing butterfly
I had to stop digging when it grew dark, so didn't get to finish the area, but I did dig up a patch more than 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and about a foot deep (maybe 4 feet long to go). Much of the stuff I dug up went on the secondary compost heap. It's a mountain. ;^)
One day I shall dig under that compost heap and see how much soil has formed.
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Date: 2017-02-07 03:27 pm (UTC)http://www.theblackdentrust.org.uk/supporters_benefactors.php
Chris Lynch has donated three items of the owl service pottery. They are an exquisite gilded sepia version of the design, which is much more delicate than the gilded green version that provoked the writing of The Owl Service in 1960. Alan Garner has been trying to discover who created the design for over forty years, but it took Chris Lynch's determined sleuthing to tie it down to Christopher Dresser. Between 1862 and 1904, Dresser worked for Minton, Wedgwood, Watcombe, Linthorpe, Old Hall and Ault potteries.