New Life

Easter time is a day of reflection. For many, it is a time of celebration and the promise of a resurrection day for all. It is a very joyous morning.

This gif was made using vectors and some kaleidoscope items. It is 21 frames long. The original gif is larger, but resized to fit my blog.

The vectors are the egg, the stem of the flower and it's leaves. Also the center of the smaller flower and the crack in the egg.

The kaleidoscopes are the flowers, and the emerging spot before the cracking of the egg.

The chick was painted in behind everything in layers using the paintbrush, airbrush, shading and texturing.

The frames were prepared as an optimized gif which helps keep the gif free of dark spots that become over-emphasized when finishing it up.

This gif was a lot of fun to create!

Happy Easter, everyone. See you tomorrow.

Easter Morning 2007

to all. Whether you are off to church or off to spend time gathering Easter eggs with the children, I hope today is one of great blessings for you all.

And in honor of today, I am posting a second gif.

Have a wonderful day, and I'll see you in a moment!

Preparing for Easter Sunday!

Good morning.

We had snow yesterday. The huge snowflakes, and lots of them. It started to cover the yard, and then diminished to tiny flakes.

Until spring returns here, I keep making flowers.

This flower was an experiment.

With today, comes shopping. Off to the grocery early this morning, so I thought this little purse would be a good post for today.



Easter is just around the corner.

Lots to get done today. I'll still take the early morning hours to draw, draw, draw.

I'm sure a lot of you are having family in this weekend for Easter. Easter egg hunts, meals to share, and games for the kids. So have a great time!

Until tomorrow, make it a wonderful Saturday.

It's Good Friday!

It's Good Friday, and many people are taking the day off.

It's not a holiday where I work, although we may take it as a religious holiday. So the halls of my office will be "bare" today, I'm sure.

My little butterfly sweetheart to the left is a little creation I came up with yesterday. He's colorful, and sweet. And he's ready for spring!

In Ohio, we've gone, overnight, back to winter. On Tuesday, we had 80 degrees, and had snow flurries by Wednesday with strong gusts of bitterly cold wind. Our wind chill factor had us drop back into the teens -- and it's cold.

All the better for this bright little creature I've made to share today. He adds a little touch of spring to my life!

Here's my "June" character in a new creation also.

While it's not Mother's Day yet, she would look great on the front of any card.

In my case, I am the "mother" of my family. With no parents of my own left to celebrate, I re-live memories on special days for parents, and I hope to be the best mom I can be for my own grown children.

My husband is still fortunate though, to have his mother still living, and in fairly good health. While she lives far awhile with many other family members, they keep in touch by phone.

Have a really great Friday.

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See you tomorrow.

Pixel Tubes

My drawing adventures led me into the world of pixels.

Pixels are very small, and while the outline is created one pixel at a time, I learned as I had with making patterns that once the outline is drawn, you can select the shapes and fill instantly. After filling, you simple use your special effects to shade by choosing the cutout function.

Because they are so small, you have to work "zoomed in", but they do come out so adorable.

Pixels are great for putting in emails.


After making the first little pink mouse, it was easy to add a cookie to him. I just drew the arms around front instead of at this side. Because I made a pattern for him, I could easily change his coloring this time.

I've done several pixels, and over time, I will display more. I am constantly trying new ways of creating my art.

Graph paper would be one way to design a pixel. But using PSP, you can simply snap on the grid which gives you kind of a computerized graph paper.

Have a great day.

See you tomorrow!

Ah! More Tubes

Hump day! That's Wednesday.

Here's a little rambling snail. I was experiment-ing with making textures, and found his shell to be interesting.

I started playing with it first, and then thought it could be used for a "shell creature".

Below, you'll see a girl set for her prom. She took much more time to create than the snail.

I once had a dress in black in white like this, but in a short style. It didn't have the red trim on it, but because I like red, and thought it would define the dress more, I added it.

When she was finished, I decided she needed a wrist corsage. And there it is.

Drawing is so much fun.

You can do anything with it!

And that it's for today!

Make it a great "HUMP" day!

Back Yard

This picture started out with just making ONE fence post.

Of course, once I had one, I decided to make a group of three.

Then I thought it would be nice to curve the top.

Then it needed something in front of it.

I made some unusual-looking bushes, and added some flower tubes I'd already made and had stashed away.

ThenI needed dirt and grass which I made. Actually, I had made grass, so could just add that.

Then I thought I'd put a house behind it. I once had a patio like this in an apartment.

Then the curtain came. An experiment. And then I had this girl tube I'd made.

Next, the wall looked a little empty. Viola! A light! With a glow.

Tubes can also be made from photographs. I often find pictures to use that say, "Tubed by ...."

You can take your trusty camera with you and take some wonderful pictures.

At this time of year, with the flowers just beginning to bloom, you can do some beautiful flower tubes.

You can do your children, grandchildren, pets, and attractive items you find around your house.

A tube is usually ONE item, although you'll find tubes that may have "a couple" in them, such as two lovers embracing.

It is amazing what is out there!

I started out "collecting" tubes. From there, I wanted to make tubes, and that's when I discovered that it could be done using vectors.

I've made tubes as well as just patterns, which can then be filled with any color you decide.

Right now, I am playing with textures, shading, and composition. It is all great fun!

That's it! See you tomorrow!