A LITTLE MORE ART AND SOME MZ. WEE ANTICS

The new header is a mural I did awhile ago on my guest bedroom wall. Botticelli's La Primavera. MY version! You don't sleep alone here! :)

OK, some of you know this Diva. This little monster. This demanding little brat! But she's sickie. She has some kind of infection in her nares and her throat...same thing she had a year ago...so I took her to the avian vet last week. I had to hover around the waiting room. I was more upset than she was. Even that far away, I could hear her honking and crying while she got a couple of shots (one medicine and one hormone) and got her blood taken and her wings clipped. It seemed to take forever and I was sweating like a rail worker! The girls in the office were laughing and cackling because they said she sounded like a duck! Well, she does, but she's MY little ducky and it really distresses me when she is stressed. Anyhow....I have to give her medicine three times a day via a syringe. She KNOWS when I shake the bottle what's coming. She KNOWS when she sees that syringe full of pink stuff what's coming. She KNOWS when I grab the towel it's going around her and she HATES all this. So...as soon as she catches on, and believe me she WATCHES all the time...doesn't miss a thing, she slides like a fireman down her ladder, tightens up her feathers, and streaks across the floor like a blue torpedo. You think you can catch her? Think again! She heads straight for the dining room table. It's bamboo and has a low place underneath, and she KNOWS I can't get her if she's under there! Then, when I finally do capture her and give her the meds (it takes two of us to do it) she holds it in her beak and when I let go she spits it out, like a little kid. Grrrrrrrrrr! So, tomorrow I'm going to try to soak some bread and peanut butter with her meds since she loves that, and see if it works. I don't have much faith. As soon as she realizes her bread is pink, it will get flung - and it will stick to the walls and stick to the floor and stick to my cheek..... Sigh...........

Photo of Mz. Wee

A little reality check here. These are a couple of the 2 minute poses I did in Life Drawing class Saturday. We had a male model. I did have more frontal pics but I just didn't post them. This model was an older gentleman who must work out because he had a six-pak. He also had a....um....uh.....a ring on his.... well, you know. I didn't draw the ring.

If you'd like to visit my drawing instructor's website, it's http://www.douglaslandartist.com/ He also does court drawings, and was the court artist for that trial of the two guys that got picked up in SC for having bomb makings in their car. I believe they are USF students and the trial was in Tampa.








THIS, is a treasure I found in my mailbox a couple of days ago. It's soooooooooo very beautiful. I love it. It's glass and it's made to hang in a window to catch the light. It's from Nature Girl (sidebar link). Isn't she just the sweetest? It's far more beautiful in reality than this picture shows. Thank you again, NG!


Long day today at work and I'm tired, but I'm off tomorrow so I'll be doing some blog visiting. Missing everybody!

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