… out of a sound sleep. But then, a 4.3 jolt tends to do that. Good night again!
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Woke Me Right Up…
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Bunny Bunny Bunny
As I’ve mentioned a few times in the past, we have a lot of wild rabbits that live all around our house. Most of them have learned that we’ve trained the dogs not to catch them, so they don’t run very far away anymore when we go outside. Sometimes the dogs kind of run after them for a little bit, but it’s only for fun – I think it’s the equivalent of a person running through a flock of pidgeons and watching them scatter. Anyway, the other day I had my camera with me, so… wallah! Bunny photos!
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Birthday Box Watercolor
The idea for this watercolor painting actually came to me as part of a dream. In the dream, I was in art class and I noticed this large square box on the table, and the light/energy inside was starting to burst out of the box (which was wrapped in this colorful foil wrapping paper that we actually have.) So my teacher and I grabbed the box and took it outside so that it wouldn’t explode inside the school – not that it was going to be destructive, but it would just be better outside where there was more space. It was a really cool dream that stuck with me through most of the day.
Click the painting to see this design on the many products in my shop (like generic birthday cards – heh), and click here to get various sizes of unframed archival prints.
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Illustration Friday – Monster
The challenge this week was ‘monster’, so I illustrated a shadow person with red eyes coming out of the closet. Stories of the red-eyed shadow people often seem to involve an open closet door and pulling the covers over your head. (Probably the most sensible of moves at a time like that.)
Actually, I have some vague dreamish memories of when I was a kid and seeing white light coming out of my closet in the middle of the night. I don’t have any shadow people memories/dreams from my childhood, but I remember a ‘witch’ flying outside my window and tense memories of wanting the ‘little people’ (about a foot high) to go away. In my head, I created my own personal versions of the Super Friends, that were also a foot tall, to protect me – I think it worked, too – heh.
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Photo Friday – Smooth
I flip back and forth between thinking this is a really lovely swooping shot of this calla lily, and thinking it’s the most mundane shot in the world. It’s probably both. So rather than limit it to one singular definition, I’ll just let each person decide for themselves.
Also, in an interesting synchronicity, I just found the Photo Friday site, and this week’s theme challenge just happens to be ‘smooth’. Whether it’s lovely or mundane I don’t know, but smooth? Yes. Smooth! Smooth? Yes. [Click for Prints of this Photo]
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