I spent last weekend at a wonderful watercolor class taught by Molly Hashimoto at the North Cascades Institute. The class focused on plein air (outdoor) painting of the surrounding mountains. We had great weather and a great time.
North Cascades
Jun 18th, 2009 by admin
New watercolor
Jun 5th, 2009 by admin
Here’s a new watercolor from my flower class.
I find flowers a whole lot harder than animals or people. It seems like it’s the opposite of photography!
Lounging jaguar, hidden dragon
May 18th, 2009 by admin
Well, lounging jaguar, at least.
This was from my trip to the zoo on Friday. The baby ocelots were cute, too, but a lot harder to photograph.
And the bears are reliably photogenic…
Okay, Futurama fans, I think you’ll like this. I modified the Cthulhu pattern (well, changed the color and left off the wings) and made a Zoidberg amigurumi. (If any copyright lawyers are reading, this is purely for my entertainment only and will not be sold.)
More crochet
Apr 12th, 2009 by admin
Adding to the little group of fiends…
Crochet madness
Apr 1st, 2009 by admin
Here’s the latest one – a crochet Nosferatu from the same book as the Ninja.
Enjoy!
Crochet Ninja
Mar 30th, 2009 by admin
This bit of fabulous silliness is from the book “Creepy Cute Crochet” by Christen Haden. They work up really quickly and are a ton of fun to make. The only problem I had was with the metal embroidery floss throwing star – a real pain – but it looks great!
March Madness, indeed
Mar 9th, 2009 by admin
It’s looking a lot like Christmas, here.
And an update at 3pm:
Xaos photo portrait
Mar 3rd, 2009 by admin
Pictures from the drive
Feb 25th, 2009 by admin
Here is a selection of pics from the drive. I don’t know why my titles aren’t sticking, so this will have to do for now. I’ll try and get more detailed later.
Most of these are from Nevada, a couple are from Oregon. California was mostly rainy so there weren’t many from there (at least not coming down).
A lot of the odd rock formations are from near Pyramid Lake, Nevada. The last picture is a canyon taken just south of Nixon, Nevada.
The wild horses (one of which is shown here – we saw eight — more pics to come) were in the high desert of Nevada before we got to Gerlach. I love the one where he is surrounded by sagebrush. The zoom in is the same image. I’ll have to put some more of them up – they were really interesting. They were all staring at me – I don’t think they see many cars, let alone people taking pictures.
The desert is amazingly beautiful and also amazingly desolate. We were in single-digits for the number of cars spotted until we started getting closer to Hwy 80. The colors of the desert and the surrounding mountains were fantastic.