I hadn’t meant to let the blog drop again. Another one of my resolutions this year was to maintain this blog a little more regularly. First failure of the year! I’m a little bit behind on the daily doodles as well, but I refuse to acknowledge it; the month isn’t over yet, so I’ve plenty of time to increase my daily average. But I’ve dropped the ball only because I’ve been busy helping H.E. keep his own resolutions. He wanted…
…are about nil. It doesn’t change how people often expect me to read their minds anyway. I don’t know what that’s about—though if I could read minds, I’m sure I would know. In my line of work, I’m forced to try to develop some mind reading skills, and when I’m on my game, I need only a word, an image, a look, or a gesture, and I know exactly what people want from me. I am, however, very rarely on…
One of my resolutions this year is to sketch an average of at least one still-life a day. By “still-life” I mean an actual physical model in the real world sense … because I don’t do enough realistic sketches, too often drawing from my own imagination instead. So far, I’m keeping up with my resolution. I skipped a few days but made up for it yesterday and today. Unfortunately for me, however, I don’t have a whole lot of interesting…
I have more than one pet peeve about writing. The misuse of the words peaked, peeked, and piqued is one of them. Other than the fact that they are homophones, I don’t understand why perfectly capable writers and editors miss these every now and then. Peaked …is the past tense of the verb to peak. The noun version of the word looks like this: or like this: The use of the verb version of the word, which means to reach…
I don’t really have a Best of 2006 shot, since no single shot of mine last year seriously caught my attention. But this is one of my many, many favorites of 2006. Taken in Australia, specifically at the Ayers Rock Resort, near the Lost Camel hotel. I can’t believe he let me shoot so many pictures of him. The detail in his feathers look better in the larger sized version. Share this post: