Hello!

Just a quick update to let you know what has been going on.   I was able to finish the portrait called "In Love"  while I was on my mini vacation.  It turned out to be a lot harder than I had hoped.  I usually take a picture and "blow it up" on my computer so I can go into to it section by section to see detail.  But the original picture just would not let me get it any bigger than it was without digitizing.  So I just was not able to see a lot of details when it came to the facial features.   I still have a lot to learn and rely so heavily on the photos to get the details I need. The original photo was just as cute it could be and I wanted to so badly make the owner very proud of it.   I hope she is.  I still get very nervous when doing portraits.  My comfort level is still animals and small children.  But even then, I know I am no where near done learning what I need to learn.  But I hope with time and practice my art work will become as life like as a photograph.  That is my goal :o)

I have started another portrait, rather its a two in one.  Its a little boy and girl, separate pictures that I am doing an 11 x 14 on.   They are absolutely adorable but both pictures will be 5x7.   I love the pictures, but to be honest they scare me death.  Not only are the portraits smaller than I am used to working on.   Its harder to get the detail than I am used too.  I am still at the stage where more room to blend and create detail works so much better for me.   But the other scary bit is one little "oops" not only messes up one picture, its messes up 2 and that is a lot of work to start over.   So it is taking me longer to accomplish this, but the owner is a good friend and I want her to be very proud of it and I don't want to disappoint her.  

We are currently working quite a bit of overtime at work so my free time is just not as abundant as I would like.   But at least its only temporary.   I will be back on night shift at the end of this month so I should be able to work on pictures a lot more.   Its so much easier to do them at night when the whole world is sleeping and you have to find a reason to stay awake til 6am ;o) 

Well I hope everyone is having a fantastic February!!

Thank you for your support!

Kelli