AEDM-Day 5

I am exhausted! We have had the girls the last couple of days and we have them again today. I love them dearly, but I can no longer keep up with them. I woke up with a huge charley horse in my left calf and it still hurts. The left arm is still giving me much pain also. Enough complaining!! Let it go.....

I did find time yesterday morning to sketch a bird (what a surprise that is, eh?). You know I love birds and I am hoping to get much better at drawing them. I am hoping to get some time to attempt a more colorful one in Art Rage; maybe tomorrow.

I also played a bit with Photoshop (big surprise here, too, NOT) and have the following to show you:

 

I don't think the girls are coming until after noon today, so I am going to drive over to Charlotte to pick up my sister and take her out to lunch and maybe to browse a couple of second hand shops. Then it is home in time for my Photoshop webinar at two and then I have two high school juniors coming at three for Algebra tutoring. I think tonight it is my turn to take the girls home after dinner and get them ready for bed and stay until their mother (my dear daughter) gets home around 10:30. It is going to be another long day. But I think tomorrow is my own - except for the dear son coming over for help with his Algebra homework.

Gotta run - I need to take a shower and pick up a bit before I head out.

See you tomorrow!

Waxing (Poetic?)

I bit the bullet and pushed my fears aside and got out the Melting Pot and Project Pan that I found for a great price at the USArtQuest warehouse sale and began the process of melting some wax that my dear friend, Nancy, gave me to play with (I just can't write "with which to play" so I am ending this sentence with with, ha! :-o )

I began by using a brush to put a coat of wax over the wood and then took each piece that I wanted to add and put it in the wax to coat it and then used metal tweezers to place it on the wood. It went well except I think it is too waxy. Some of the wax seemed to drip onto the wood in clumps, so when it was cooled I took a part of an old credit card and scraped some of it off. I think it looks okay, but both my friend, Tina, and an online friend, Rob, told me that I could heat the wax with a heat gun and rearrange things. Also Rob told me that when he uses wax he likes to put a layer on the substrate (in this case, the block of wood) and then arrange his collage and use his heat gun to get the collage to sink into the wax. I think I like that idea and it seems like it wouldn't get quite so waxy as mine did.



I am posting my collage as it looks now, but once the hubster arises, I am going to get out the heat gun and melt some of the wax on the collage so that I can remove the large "Dream" from the upper left hand corner and play a bit. I think I will also remove the large pink sparkly from the bottom left. I will post the revision tomorrow.

I am excited about my day today. I have a class at USArtQuest from 10 to 1 and then have my third Photography webinar at 2. In my morning class, I am making a checkbook cover using Studio Cloth and paper napkins. I will write about it tomorrow and show what I've done.

Time to get started on this day......