Just finished sculpting my little polar bear. He was still warm from the oven when I took the photos. did not even stop to clean him up. Thinking about using a wash yet but I really like him the way he is.
left side
back side
right side
looking over
The morning started early for Roberta and I, as she had to be into work by five am. The one car thing if she gets up I get up. So we stumble out of bed at three forty five in the a. m. with two happy dogs who get to go out early. I gather my clothes and she does all the many mysterious things that a woman must do before facing the public. I with my eyes still closed feed the fish and dress. Then gather my stuff for work and we head off.
Now we have this thing where if one of us has enough cash on hand and the time we stop off on the way and pick up a doughnut or two at the Harlan doughnut shop. This morning was one of those mornings.
I pulled in across the street from the shop and we disembarked from the little yellow Aveo. As I waited for Roberta to come around the car so we could walk over together a car glides to a stop in front of the doughnut shop. No lights or sign of life. Wow he must just have gotten up and needs his coffee bad.
Now this may be from my mind deciding that the pillow was a better place to stay then to get up with the rest of me. But until the door opened I did not realize that it was a police car. The officer got out with hand on his gun belt and asks, “Did they call you?” My reply is, “no we are here for the donuts.” and with happy smiles we continue to the store. Inside my mind, I am wondering if I should say something to him about forgetting to turn on his headlights. I decide not to mention it as I don’t want to piss the man off. He is obviously having a early morning much like ourselves. The very kind and understanding officer steps in front of us and asks, “Mind if I go in first?” I reply, ” sure you got the gun.” in my slowly waking mind I am thinking cops take their donuts seriously here. Roberta and I stop at the window and are peering inside as the officer inters the shop with gun drawn. Okay now I got it! the doughnut shop was,…. wait is having a break in. Roberta and I both stand on the sidewalk looking in through the window. When a second police car pulls up behind us. We are still standing there with a ten dollar bill in hand waiting to get our doughnuts.
As it turns out the call is for the other Harlan Doughnut shop! Wow another one did not know that. Don’t feel too bad about it though, nether did the police.
It really does not dawn on us till we are on the road with doughnuts in hand how stupid we were standing there. What if the robber was still there with us standing outside the window waiting for gun fire.
Oh well
Good morning All
I am not real pleased with his photos but here is my sculpture of a deer mouse.
32 through 40
Oh my stars
drop tangle
Various tangled tangles
Butterfly kisses
True tangle
Inter leaf
Where's Alice
Just below the surface
Time lock
Zentangle is a method or way of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. So what I do I don’t conceder Zentangle, because I don’t strictly fallow the Zentangle method and I even have a idea of what I want to create sometimes before I start. Not to say I don’t have a zen like experience while doing my doodles or tangles.
Mental Polar bear
This tangle if you will, is was done with a small bit of forethought. I wanted a bear shape so I created a bear outline and from there I started thinking about what I wanted in the bear. I did not want to fill the bear with one pattern but I did want shapes that some how linked or were related to the bear.
Circus Circles
What more can I say “I like Circles” and Celtic knots
The God partical
I was in a well known book store dirnking a Cafe mocha double shot (Thanks Bruce I am Hooked on these things) and drawing. Great way to relax and just enjoy for a while. The cafe was all but empty which was odd for a Friday night when a group of very loud women came in and sat down at table near by. Okay its a public place you can not expect a library quiet but a bible study. Really people!
I did mention the loud part right. Okay I know I got this whole thing about religion is so contaminated by man (that is both sexes by the way) that it all needs a rewrite by the owner. We got ten perfect laws to fallow and it does not seem that allot of us can even do that.
STOP! Rant curtailed here!
So anyway I in my Zen place and The Bible thumpers start and that takes me to Angles and Demons and that takes me to CERN and the god particle. In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle not known to have substructure; that is, it is not known to be made up of smaller particles. If an elementary particle truly has no substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the universe from which all other particles are made. So……. this is so not it but I like the name.
30-tangle
Well I kind of did it again but not. My mind must still be holding onto the same space for a while. Maybe longer if …….
Snail # 2
Got together with my sister and niece this weekend and did a bit of group tangling. It was fun and once I got into the zen of the moment it was kind of cool. I mean just doing this together with people (in my case people I love) and then noticing the quiet and the deep concentration that it brings. Its like the form that you are working on is at a point of guided repetition so that your mind can wonder and focus on the strangest thoughts and ideas.
The snail itself I had seen that morning in my fish tank just having a good ol’ snail time. Its’ shell is what got my attention and I knew I wanted to do another Snail tangle. Carla did not seen overly impressed with my first snail so I created the second.
Carla is great she would not hurt my feelings for anything in the world. So it’s sometimes hard for her to give anything but a positive opinion. but her reactions are normally very open.
Till next time
Docwort
I created this for Steve in the maintenance department. Thought he might get a kick out of it.
HGI Nuts 1920 x 180
HGI Nuts 1024 X 768
I was working on this in the Barns and Noble coffee shop, when a man approched me and started to rave over the work. I was very happy he liked it but when he kept going on and then calling his wife over (who did not seem to share his enthusiasm) it got to the point of embarrassing.
My dear Roberta always the defender and proud wife led him on. The other people in the cafe were all quite thoroughly annoyed by the time they were through I am sure. It’s kind of hard to take admiration like that and yet it was very nice of the man to say something.
Tangled again
While working on The Wort Zone tangle below I was again approached by a man. I was passing time at the Grabill country sales store after having lunch at their buffet and before heading back to work. This time I think it was just the curiosity of watching some drawing something so intently. He asked if I was a full time artiste and when I replied no. He told me how good his wife was at drawing and cooking.
The Wort Zone
Inspired by our two Golden mystery snails I created this little bugger.
Snail
tangled campus .
Pointing
I not sure what I see in this on some times it looks like a very wicked machine complete with blades and grinding wheels. At other times it seems like a large set of gates.
The Machine
Thursday came and so did March. Here it is Monday and we are five days in with bills due. Damn I hate starting off a month behind.
Anyone want to put a roof on my house for me?
March todo
Well it took me awhile to get the photo for this little guy but he is here. You know it had to happen. Mr peanut has been walking around for years. So I just had to create one from a real peanut.
Mr. peanut
I like the lighting on this one better than most I have done so far. It was shot with two lights one to the left and the other to the right and both slightly in front of Mr. peanut here.
I don’t normaly add eyes or a face to the peanut people. Their pose and posture tell most of the story and a few props help as well. But for Marty Peanut here I just had to. It is the distinguishing feature of the man I made this peanut to portray.
Marty Feldman
Martin Alan “Marty” Feldman (July 8,1934 – December 2, 1982) I always loved his stuff as a kid and adult. If you don’t know who Marty Feldman is maybe this will help. The photo below is of his character EYE-GORE form Young Frankenstein.
Marty Feldman
I got another tangle or two complete that I will post soon but thats about it for tonight.
Take care you all!
Docwert
I just got my N2A (NOOK TO ANDROID) Card for my Nook E book reader. I installed the card powered up the nook and there was the Android desktop with all its glory. The only problem so far was getting Google Android Market to allow me to down load, but there was help on the N2A web sight that stepped me through the process. It is so cool. I have the Nook app running on my Nook Android that allows me to read any of my Books that I have in my Barns and Noble book shelf. And now I have the Kindle app and a few others as well. Now I have to see if I can connect to my old sony account that was with borders.
I just installed Autocad WS on my Nook Android. I can view edit and mark up drawings from my Nook! I can Even print it is wild. Can’t wait to get a key board working.
Finished up my last tangle for February. Thinking about creating a Tangle page for the web sight. Featuring each tangle that I have done and a guide to each of the patterns within each. Sounds like a lot of work but it might be worth it.
The first tangle here I call Eleiman as it reminds me of an Elephant. But if you turn it around it looks like a swan. What do you see?
Eleiman
This next one I think I have stared at way to long. Some times I see a face, other times I see some kind of bizarre animal. Roberta sees a bird in a nest with a worm.
birdsnest
TTFN
Docwert
I really felt sorry for the little dead peanut in the back there. Even though I was the the one who ate him. It was so sad to look at his drooping leg and arm and broken shell laying there as I took the various photos of the scene.
Thinking about the Peanights of the round table or full metal jousting with the peanights.
Peanight
On another note I re-shot my Peanut butter maker and like the lighting and focus much better on this one.
How It's Made Peanut butter
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