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Being the brat that I am I decided to take the day off and spend it with my art and my hubby.  Warm enough to have lunch on the porch.  So got my 2 mile run in, been playing on my tiger, but not sure what the afternoon will bring, so before I go get cleaned up thought I would post what I have done this week.  this is pretty much the non-fun, tedious part for me, getting the hair in on the body.  I still have lots of finishing work to do on it to get the musculature in, but I am pretty happy, will get the rest of the base on on the bottom and then get to go back to the fun part on the face and finish that off.  Needed to get the rest of the body in so that I can put the coarse hairs over the top.  Am hopeful that I will get him complete this weekend.  I am ready for him to be done.  Then I am not sure if I am going to do another dog or a person, but am ready for a change up that is for sure. Hope to have some more to show you tomorrow and Sunday....

Well back at it again, trying to work on my tiger who I haven't looked at and been ignoring for over a month.  So got to get back into the groove on fur and the color combination - hence the reason they say you should write it down when you are in the moment.  Am going to run to sit out on the porch, below freezing this morning and now it's 64 on the porch, so for the end of November, just got to get a glass of wine and sit out and enjoy it, but unfortunately got to clean it up first. Good to be back working on this guy, he is growling at me again so that means I'll have to try to steal lots of crazy mintues to work on him a little bit at a time as I really would like to get him done before I start on my friend's dog.  Got her drawn up and want to do her in pastel, probably will work them both together, but no more today, once it is too cold on the porch I'll be setting up my tree, Christmas is only 30 days away - ooh, then it's the new year 2013, boy where ...

Well am in cleaning frenzy now that winter is coming and we have to live back inside; so just stopped to take a few minutes to complete my Zambian Lady.  I still don't know what to do about a background, right now since it is a small space maybe nothing.  I will put her in the GIMP and see if I add different background color what happens, (said that like I think I know I could really do that eh?  we'll see)  I really want her face and hat to be the focus, but am not going to do anything more as I fear I'll ruin it.  So for now I call her done and see if I have a frame for her, found a small mat, and will look at her for a while but want to get her under glass or she will be smeared and I am not ready to put her in my paper file as I want her as a reminder you don't have to labor long but go with the flow.    Also found this pastel of a lady I did years ago, this came off of a travel magazine cover and hope I don't have an issue posting ...