Living Treasures pt. 2

Next were the tigers, dingos, and alpacas...oh my!

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Living Treasures Animal Park

Last month I got to go to a small animal park in Donegal. I took lots of pictures and will be breaking up my little trip in a few posts so as not to bombard all at once. :) Starting off there were some monkeys, then a lot of goats. The place was set up so that you could feed and pet the animals unless they were dangerous.

I absolutely loved the goats and there were a lot of them too!

Down and Up

I know I have been pretty quiet lately, but that doesn't mean nothing is going on for the most part. I started up on an old past time activity that has been eating up some of my time but in a good way. I have done some recolors on images, but they weren't mine so I wasn't comfortable with posting them on here, besides they weren't anything grand.
I have two projects on the table right now, both free commissions I'm doing for people who are lucky I like them. :P One is a map and the other is a character for someones story. It's slow going but it's going. :)

I'm excited spring is here! I can't wait for the flowers to all come out so I can go get some pictures snapped. That and it needs to stop raining! I don't like going out in the rain :(

Wordless Wednesday

Finding A Peaceful Resolve In Mandalas

Sometimes I have the urge to do one half of something and not the other. Usually this means I want to color but not draw. This urge always hits me when I haven't drawn anything, thus have nothing to color.
Thankfully I have this relaxing book full of mandalas that I can satisfy my craving in.



The possibilities seem endless with different patterns and any color at my disposal.



Pencil, marker, doesn't matter..





Even if the results aren't as great as the ones before...



the feeling of peace of mind at the end is all that matters for the itch has been cured :)

Wordless Wednesday

Colored Pencil Colors

Lately I have been musing about color, more narrowly about my colored pencil colors. Then I found this extremely helpful guide by Gayle Mason on her Blog: Fur In The Paint. It felt like the discovery of a lifetime when I saw it.

I couldn't find a nice catalog list like hers for Prismacolor pencils but when I went on the site I found something that I thought was a little better. Pencil Chart

I took the time to make pages in Photoshop so that I could read what they said and have a little more room.



I don't have all the colors they have listed, but I thought it was odd they didn't have all the ones I do have listed. That was just a simple fix in Photoshop as well :) I absolutely love this as now I can see -all- the colors I have at once and decide more effectively which I'm going to use. I plan on laminating them when I get some new lamination sheets so that they will last much, much long.