Nobody chose my favorite rhinosnowman

Hi, hola, bonjour, etc etc. Obviously it has been awhile since my last blog post. In addition to not having a scanner, I was working on some paintings for gifts, so I couldn't post them here. I painted rhinocerpears and rhinosnowmen. Even though the rhinocerpears were much more difficult and time consuming, people seemed to like the rhinosnowmen the best. That's o.k.. While some people may think the rhinocerpears are just plain weird, I think they have a certain whimsy and quirkiness that I like. There was one rhinocerpear painting that I grew attached to and decided that it would be mine and I will post it here. I am also going to post my favorite rhinosnowman that nobody picked. I was almost relieved when nobody did as I wanted him for myself as well. I like the simplicity and the feel of the painting. It was maybe not as colorful as some of the others, but I think it captured a mood that I like. I specifically did not add anything that would be construed as a Christmas theme to these paintings as I didn't want to limit them to that two week or one month time frame. I almost painted a candy cane in one of their hands, but stopped myself.

Hope everyone is recovering from the Holidays. My vacation was cut a day or two short due to possible bad weather, so I am home today. It would normally be a work day. I actually have two more rhinosnowmen sketched out that I am going to paint as soon as I finish this blog post and then, since the precipitation seems to be just rain at this point, I am going out.

Elephants

I have two elephants works that I did this morning before work. I like the quick sketch better than the painting. Sometimes it works that way. You can spend 5 minutes on something and you like it better than something you spent an hour or more on.

More pears...

I decided to try another oil painting tonight. I want to play around more with the oils as I think they are more fun than acrylics. I like their creaminess. I don't think I can handle the regular oil paints because they are too messy and smelly, but the water soluble ones are good. I feel like I have blog rustiness. I usually just go "type type type" and I'm done. Tonight the typing isn't easy. I guess the only typing I'm used to these days is typing dialog for animated bears. As for the pears, it's a night time photograph with a flash and the colors are way off. In person they'r'e not so blue.

One of these days I'll post more drawings, but for now, here is another movie.

Another movie

Two sketches and some movies

Just as the title says, tonight I will provide you with two sketches and some movies. The first movie is my movie and the second is Joan's reply to my movie. One can go crazy with this these little movies. Every little mundane thing that happens now can be transferred into the bears lives and they make it seem not quite so mundane because talking bears with computer voices and English accents are just automatically funny. Thanks Joan for getting me into these bears.

Obviously I haven't been around much lately. Part of that is because I don't have a scanner at home and part is that my left click on my laptop mouse has been acting up and it has made computer stuff not as fun as it should be. This morning I fixed the problem by switching the "left click" to the right, so now I right click on the left and left click on the right. It's not even all that difficult with the laptop mouse. I think it might be more confusing with a regular mouse.





Edited to add thanks for giving me the rights to your movie, Joan.

A post without bears

I won't be using a British bear to deliver my blog entry tonight. I will just type it myself. I had done two cute little sketches this morning that I was going to scan while I was at work, but I forgot to scan them, so we will have to settle for this not so cute drawing that I did a week or so ago. This was a "copy" of a painting that was in one of my many books. I don't remember who the artist was but do know that he/she has been dead long enough that I won't get in trouble for not giving him/her credit. I do, however, remember the name of the painting as I found it quite amusing. You can also maybe see it, if you squint real hard, at the top of the scan. It is called "Woman with the Gambling Mania." Can't you just see that gambling mania in her eyes? I am going to be doing quite a few master copies in the months ahead as I signed up for an ATC (some of you may remember that ATCs are little 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" drawings or paintings) trade that will be focusing on copies of or works inspired by the old masters. I'm very much looking forward to this. I like creating ATCs and it's very fun to receive them in the mail from others as well.

Other than all of that, I don't have much to say, so I will stop before I just start typing for typing's sake.