Month: February 2009

  • armadillo drawing

           

        Here's my newest masterpiece(lol), a pen & ink drawing of an armadillo done on calligraphy paper. It's 11x14 inches & has 4 or 5 different color ink. I started it in Dec. 2007 for an online show about cactus, but obviously didn't get it done in time, since I finished it late last month(Jan. 2009). All the lines-- especially on the armor-- got tedious, so I'd work on it for awhile & put it aside, then get it out a month or so later and do some more. That's why it took even longer than usual.

       The 2nd pic is a close-up so you can see some of the details.

        

  • Happy Valentine's Day!

       

  • 25 Random Things


         This is my list for the latest fad sweeping the internet, though it's waning now. I'm always unfashionably late, this time because I've lived such a boring life that it took forever to come up with enough items. I posted this on my Facebook page, too, but some xanga pals are not on there, so I'm cross pollinating.


    1) When I was younger, I wanted to marry the painter Vincent van Gogh.

    2) I once sang with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at a concert when I was a toddler. My mother tried to shush me as we sat in the audience, but Ms. Jackson saw her, stopped the show & told my mother “Let her sing!” and was pleased when I joined in as she continued the song.

    3) In my late teens & early twenties, I was so lonely I often considered suicide.

    4) Though I love to play chess, I’m absolutely awful at it.

    5) If time travel was a possibility, I’d want to go back to an epoch and see live dinosaurs, preferably brontosaurus & triceratops. One of the carnivores would probably make me a snack, but it might be worth it as long as I’d see some of the other species.

    6) I like animals better than humans. Animals are not judgmental or looks conscious & reciprocate kindness. If I was as popular with men as I am with animals, I’d never sit home another Friday night.

    7) My name is Jackie & I’m a bookaholic. Not only do I read about 200 books a year, I also buy as many as I can afford, which means lots of used books stores, outlets & library sales. I really need more bookshelves.

    8) When I was 9, I was a finalist in a city wide art contest depicting home improvement. I won tickets to a community theatre's production of Snow White, where I was frightened of the Wicked Witch.

    9) An article about me & my art was in Animal Fair magazine in their Fall 2004 issue. My moment of celebrity.

    10) I was in the audience when Peter Gabriel’s video for “Biko” was filmed.

    11) Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted a German Shepherd/Alsatian, but something has always thwarted me.

    12) I cry easily and at everything, not only sad books & movies, but news stories, acts of kindness & even dog food commercials.

    13) Vivid nightmares have plagued me my entire life.

    14) I’m against most wars, but like many soldier-ish items such as knights, nutcrackers & swords. Don’t know what that’s about.

    15) I once stroked a live tiger.

    16) I’ve never been drunk or done any drugs, yet believe pot ought to be legalized & treated like liquor.

    17) When I was a teenager, I ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum like in the Rocky movies. I could never do that now!

    18) I long to live in a little house surrounded by trees & flowers, with a skylit studio to paint in.

    19) I’m really, really bad at math. Worse than you think.

    20) Doing mazes is one of my hobbies, though it’s hard to find books of them.

    21) I like quiet; no Tv or radio as background noise, it’s irritating & disrupts concentration.

    22) I like snow. I enjoy being out in it, especially when it’s falling.

    23) Though I’m not very feminine, I am when it comes to movies, with costume dramas & chick flicks being what I like to watch.

    24) Some things I’d like to do before I die is: ride on a dog sled, have a hawk land on my fist and see the ocean.

    25) I’m a life long liberal Democrat tree hugger.