Well, the new week is here.

Here are some tubes I made and then put together to create an ad for my blog.

Now that's a clean, shiny floor there.

The woman, I call June. The paint brush tip was made from a kaleidoscope, and of course, the creation on the back wall is also a kaleidoscope.

Kaleidoscopes remind me a lot of scribble drawings that I talked about in another post. I see pictures and figures in my kalei's, as I call them, and often use them for a new creation.

Sometimes the idea I see is very small. The details are hidden, but the nice thing about drawing in psp is that you can just keep working with what you see until you get something. Some drawings turn into a creature that doesn't exist, but that's the fun of it.

Below you can see one of my examples that I'm talking about. This was an alien bug made from a kalei. I used it in a creation called, "I can't come to work today. I caught some kind of new bug!" Oh yeah.


June was made several months ago. She was made with vectors, turned into rasters. Layer upon layer until she was finished.

I added her to my computer desktop at work as my screen saver with a popular question I hear at work all day. I also used her to make stationary in Outlook Express called "The House Wife".


And that's it for today. See you tomorrow!

It's Spring --

It's Spring! And life and love is all around.

I love spring.

The birds have been singing their welcoming song for about 2 weeks now. I've heard them as I take the long walk in from my car in the parking lot to my building each morning.

I hear them this morning outside my window in my tiny home office.

And the early spring flowers are just blooming.

Colors come alive in spring. The new shoes for spring all sport bright new springy colors. I just love it!

Above is another creation I made this morning. With spring comes renewed energy and a feeling of love. A love for life and for those we have around us.

Easter is next weekend. Again. An example of love from our Creator to the creation He gave life to.

Ah! What a beautiful time of year!

See you tomorrow!

I created this "Royalty" icon yesterday.

It's funny how they come into creation sometimes.

I am a big fan of "kaleidoscopes". It's a tool inside PSP, for those of you that aren't familiar with it.

Royalty's hat is made from a design that popped up. I saw something in it I liked, cleaned it up, and when I was done, it looked like a hat. So I began working with it.

After the hat was done, the next logical step, to me, was to have a head under it. Viola! Her dress was also taken from a different kaleidoscope.

One of the methods I use when drawing sometimes is one I've used since I was a kid.

Have you ever laid on your back on a blanket and just looked at the clouds? I like to sit in the car on trips and look at them, too. You find pictures in them, and as they move, the pictures change.

Well. I use scribbing on a sheet of paper. Arm held loose and just scribble away. Then I study the picture as I would the clouds. Sometimes something pops out right away. Other times, I may turn it around, one side at a time. Something always pops out.

And then I know what I'm drawing. Once I have an idea, I just run with it.

As usual, since I love cartoons, it is usually "cartoon-style". Cartooning gives you so much room, and exaggeration is more than acceptable.

This fish below was done on my computer, freehand using my vectors in my program.

I signed up for a 3d art draw "2-year school" for kids. Mark Kistler said it's okay to be a kid at 108. I'm NOT 108, but I am a rather OLDER kid. I'm a grandma. You can find his school at www.draw3d.com.

This fish is one of the things he teaches in his school. He has a PBS program series as well as 4 wonderful sketching books. I signed up for his classes to learn more about 3d drawing, shading, and perspective.

The fish was probably one of the first three or four lessons he taught. I'd already gone through about 15 items or so, and drew this one from memory. I had put my pages aways, and just went back to look at it. I was surprised how similar it still is to the original he taught.


Here it is in color, and one in shades of black and white.

Drawing is great fun! It's relaxing. A day without drawing is not much of a day for me.

I work hard every week. I work overtime when it's allowed. Working 100-105 hours every two weeks takes a lot out of you. So precious "early morning" hours give me time to get some creating in. That's why you see such early hours for my postings.

I happen to be lucky enough to work a "flexible" schedule. I start at 6 a.m. on the job, so find the "wee hours" of morning for MY TIME. I come home late. Often I don't leave work till 6 p.m., and am just too exhausted to get on my computer at night. When overtime ends, I will leave at 3 p.m. Then, I will probably find some late afternoon time, too!

That's it for today.

See you tomorrow!

I love Saturdays

Saturday's are a great time to play in my psp. I absolutely love it.

This gif here was easy and thrown together quickly.

With PSP and Animation Shop, it's very easy to turn any creation you make into an animation.

This gif is only 3 frames.

I've made gifs that have many, many more frames.

Sometimes they are very complicated.

When I really want a challenge, I will place 2 or 3 animations within one. The timing has to be just right to get it to do what I want, but it's a great learning process when I get the exact results I want.

These creations below were all made from the first pink creation. The first one is 2 layers. The flower is on the background. The one to the right was changed slightly and swirled.

The third, lower left was made from the one above it, while the 4th, lower right was made from the one just above it. I just love how flexible the program is.

If you're mind's eye can see what you want, I think you can create it. Sometimes, it just happens by chance!


Now what can you do with these? They make great accents for other creations you're making. They make great accents for stationary, cards, or envelopes. There's just no end to their uses.

That's it for today. See you tomorrow!

Partial try at Animae

This started out to be animae. Big dark eyes are one of the features of it, usually making the eyes almost black.

You often also see two eye hi-lights, one larger, one smaller.

I used shading to create the nose, and followed it up with 2 black dots that I blurred slightly.

I put a hi-light on the tip of her nose.

I decided not to add shine to her hair, but left it totally flat black.

This could be a young girl in high school.

Being Saturday, I thought I'd do another post.

I just have so much fun doing different creations, so I'll do a double post today.

See you in a moment.

Peasant Girl

This peasant girl is a creation using vectors.

When I start a project, I don't always know exactly what I'm going to come up with. But any project helps you learn new things.

Creating is just fun.

Have a happy Friday, wherever you may be, and ... I'll see you tomorrow.

Wild Experimentation

This was a wild experiment with hair.

I find hair to be the most challenging part of my people creations.

Noses probably are second.

Some of more more recent tubes/drawings using an art program show improvement.

I've learned it's easier to just use shading for the nose, and hair is broken down more into individual layers while working.

I will do the face first. Then the hair behind the head, working my way to the hair in front and on the sides.

Everything we take up is about practice.

See you tomorrow.