Loghead: June 2012

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

QS 347

THREE BARNS

Will try to get a better photo, but this is three barns located near St. Paul Mo.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Way back in May of 2009 I started my 'tree a day' project with plans of trying to draw a tree a day in pen and ink to improve my tree drawing skills. (The one on this page is from Feb. 2010)
The project was going great till Thanksgiving of the same year when my dad had his stroke.
Needless to say the project changed a bit. I did however try to do a sketch, or what became known as QS's when ever I could.
So today to see what I ended up with, I decided to count them. I was a quick count so the count could be off a couple either way. So, drum roll please. . . . The count came in at 346 sketches or paintings. Not to bad. Not the 365 I'd have liked to make, but close.
I learned a lot, and want to keep them up, no matter how erratically they come.
Just though you may like to know.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Not satisfied with lazy weekends after our vacation. . .

That's right, get back on Tuesday and go camping on Sat. morning.

Wife with a bug book out checking on new bugs.
Great weekend. Warm days, cool nights.

Camp craft practice. "Um, let's see, will this hold me while I swing off of the picnic table?"

Geared out for the expedition. Expedition bag on shoulder.

Wife teaching daughter about what the butterfly's like.

Camp craft practice. 'How to walk across a log above a raging creek.'

The reason we saw hundreds of butterfly's.

Lots of great wild flowers in bloom.

This one was really cool.

Eggs found on a leaf.

Guide and guidette.

More bugs to look up.

And of course, nothing better than a hot-dog you cooked yourself and added all the fixings.

Oh, did I mention we had to wear our much to small Pooh outfit to the store to buy our camping meals?

High water pooh.

'Think, think, think. . .'

Twins.

This past Friday night we went and watched one of our local Celtic bands, Keltic Reign play in the park.

Saturday I got daughter to help in Grandma's garden.

Here she is watering the tomatoes.

And here she is eating the peas as grandma picks them.
'Garden Candy'.

Well at least she helped water.

Sunday I got up early to finish inking a sketch I did for our kayak directory.

While I was working on it, daughter came down.
Usually Sunday mornings she wants to watch a little TV before church.

But this morning she walked in and asked; "Can I have some paper and your 'How to draw' Brave book."

I went all misty. Maybe she will be a cartoonist some day!

She worked really hard on trying to follow the steps for a couple of the characters, especially Merida.