Archive | August 2020

Fruit Bowl

Aug31

I love doing these! They’re a lot of work, but I love the end result. On this and the grapes in a sack I got: Nailed It! I need to have 3-5 personal works done. This is the 5th one I’ve done, though I have 3 others partially done. I’m just trying to get into some extra practice before I move on to the review phase and then see if I pass to go on to the next group of lessons–people. The picture is from Pixabay. I can’t wait to learn from the fur course to do dogs and wolves and cats.

Little one is here today. It’s going to be REALLY hot for another week, and then we have a cool down. As in 90 instead of 99, and 70 instead of 80 in the mornings. Tack on 10 degrees heat factor, and that’s our hot weather. But I’m really looking forward to the cool down. I can get more yard work done then.

So I wrote another 2,000 on Wolff Bros yesterday–up to 92K and still need to write about 3 more scenes.

Off to get ready for little one. Dogs need to go out, come in, get fed, go out, trash out, little one here….

Have a great day!

Terry

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Grapes in a Sack

Aug28
Painting in Photoshop

I’m still working on Wolff Bros 2, and I’m still touching up this painting for when I need to turn in 3 paintings we’ve done for review, in addition to 2 that we’ve had critiqued as part of the course before I can move on to people. Ack!

It might look easy and it’s anything but. But I still love doing it, though sometimes while I’m working on it, I think, what made me think I could do this?????

Okay, little one is on her way and I’m still working on my story.

Have a great day!!

Terry

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Hurricane Missed Us!

Aug27

We sure dodged the bullet on that one! My thoughts and prayers go out to those living in Louisiana and other areas where the brunt of the storm is hitting.

I’m working on Wolff Bros 2 edits still. At 88K. I wanted to get this done before Sept 1. But not sure I will. I have little one tomorrow and Saturday.

Okay, I’m off to work!

Have a great day!

Terry

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Hurricane Laura Advancing

Aug26

No sun this morning–dark and cloudy and hot, hot, hot. 85 heat index at 6 am. I went for my walk ahead of the storm. I had hoped things would cool down a bit. I long for the days when it was 72 in the morning.

It’s not supposed to really start raining until around 1 pm, I think. They keep changing their minds. I got Joy to the Wolf books in and I need to send a couple out, but not sure if I should do it this morning, or just work on the book and do it next week. If I could go right now, I would, but the post office isn’t open until 8 and by then, I might be deep into edits or writing.

Hoping for the best with the hurricane bearing down on us. Oh, and got Wolf Wears Plaid edits in. *sigh* Still trying to finish up Wolff Bros.

Have a great day and stay safe!

Terry

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Egg Practice

Aug25

Well, weathermen are still unsure whether we’ll get some of the storm. I saw where we might get 1-2″ of rain. It’s showing rain from Wednesday through Friday.

It’s only going to be a high of 89 on Wednesday, wow! 97 today.

I’m taking little one overnight on Friday night and dropping her off on Saturday. I now have the one little room set up for her to sleep in, so we’ll see if she’ll sleep there, or end up in my bed. The problem is when she ends up in my bed is that I don’t sleep. lol I told her if she stays with me, that’s her bed and Grandma has her own bed. So we’ll see. lol

So I have 3 days of writing–today is cooler, if I could do some yard work! I’m still trying to finish the book. I’m at 87K. Goal is 89K. I will make that. I’m still just trying to finish writing the extra scenes I need. I realized, not only do I need to finish this, and write the novella, I need to write some promo blogs for the Sept release. I don’t know how Sept got here so quickly!

Have a great day!!!

Terry

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Hurricane Coming?

Aug24
Still Life of Vegetables

So I was coming home from a trip into town and my GPS warned that the route I was taking could be closed because of Hurricane Marco. I had to look at my weather map again! I didn’t think we were having any rain today. lol

Okay, so I think they’re preparing everyone who travels those routes in a few days.

I just got home, had to pick up little one, and we have a ton of fun things to do!

Have a great day!!

Terry

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Aug23
We’re watching the development of storms headed our way, so hoping it isn’t as bad as it could be. So far, our rain is supposed to come on Wed and Thurs.

Okay, I’m off to get my walk in before long, still dark out, and get going on the book. I wrote the epilogue and was trying to figure out my timeline for the story. My characters do a lot in a day. So do I!

My editor always get after me about it. lol But I do have Christmas coming up and I needed to figure out how much time I had before that happened.

I’m up to 84500 and still need several scenes to write. Trying to figure out how to end the bad guy scenario. In the middle of the night I had an idea. Now if I can only remember it.

Off to get to work. Have a great day!!!

Terry

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Egg in a Blanket

Aug22

I did it! It looked so daunting. Now I have a WHOLE bunch of eggs to paint. I was working on the background first.

Well, we have two tropical storms heading our way, but hopefully we’ll just get rain from them. It’s cooler this morning again, but the heat is picking up the rest of the week in the morning, unless the storms hit, probably.

Have a great day!! I’m off to get my writing going. Up to 83,000, past word count, shooting for 89k.

Enjoy your weekend, and stay safe!

Terry

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Daylily in Photoshop Oil

Aug21

So with this photo I took of daylilies in my garden, I had tons of water drops on the flowers, and I limited it to some of the bigger ones. It was fun painting water drops! I created the background, but there should be some more instruction on creating other kinds from the actual photo. I’m hoping.

I’m off to the store–have to get medicine–so I might as well get groceries while I’m at it, even though I don’t need too much. I like to keep an extra supply of dog food, just in case. We have hurricane season right now, and it’s a good idea to be prepared.

I was reading an article about a man who had used all kinds of precautions against COVID-19, until he went out for dinner, eating in two nights in a row with friends and nobody wore masks. It would be hard to do while eating anyway. So after months of being careful, he threw caution to the wind and ended up with COVID-19. The take away? Don’t let down your guard!

I feel that some think that since they aren’t getting it–because they’re being careful–it really doesn’t exist or that they won’t get it–they’re immune. But, as his case shows, and others do too, it doesn’t work like that. The problem is it’s highly contagious!

I remember when we had gas mask training in the army and to make us believers that the masks were really protecting us, after we were wearing them for several minutes, we had to take them off. That makes nonbelievers into believers, believe me!

Okay, so on that note, I’ve got to don my mask, hope for the best, and get my medicine and some groceries. Still working on the story. Hope to get further today. I actually ended up with 1500 words yesterday, despite having little one here.

Have a great and safe day!

Terry

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Three Red Pears

Aug20

There should be a children’s story in that, I think. This is the third practice after the bell pepper of the art projects I had to do. Next is an egg on a blanket. You’re supposed to do the background on these subjects first, table, or in this case, tree, and then the subject(s). So I’ve worked on the blanket and table for the egg. I need to work on the blanket some more, then I need to create the background to match the color scheme. Those are fun for me. Then I need to paint the egg. That’s going to be hard.

I’m new at the Wacom and I’m just now getting to where I can draw more of a straight line, but curves and getting sharp edges are still hard. I’m getting better at sharp edges though. You should have seen my fuzzy first attempts when I first started.

Okay, little one will be here in a little bit, so got up super early to get some edits done on the book in the meantime. I reached word count, yay! Need to finish the story!

Have a super great day!

Terry

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