Just when you think "K9 Apollo" is completed, more is found to do.

This was K9 Apollo, a true hero.  

I'm working on his portrait using my normal methods of drawing, blocking in color, smearing, adding more color, working it and working it until I think it's done.  I also use an iPad to help me see things better.  I love that discovery, that I can zoom in to reveal more detail in my work.  It's drastically helped me!  

But, another way I've learned to improve my work is by using the program picmonkey.com

I like to use the collage feature where I can place my work next to the original, and for some reason, all the mistakes pop up, things I thought were okay, need more work, obvious things I should be seeing, come to light for me.  Again, it's helping me improve my work.  

Tools of the trade years ago meant using a magnifier glass, or enlarging a copy, then making the copy in color, even taking photographs or instant photos, but nowadays with the digital age, all you need is an iPad or a laptop to see your work so much easier.  Also, using programs like picmonkey which allows you to line your (what you think is finished) work, next to the original to see even more things that need changing, thus making your work better.  

Try it.  

Use your iPad.  Try Picmonkey, it's FREE!  

Click here to discover Picmonkey.  Play around with a photo that doesn't mean anything to you, you will suddenly get so hooked on that program!  

www.picmonkey.com

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You know you're busy when...

You know you're busy when you fail to have time to blog.  Since my last post in two months, I've created so many portraits I can't recall them all!  But I do know I did one cat because it's the second cat I've ever done, so that sticks out.

The K9 portraits roll in continuously, and I keep pushing them out, and the officers say the sweetest things after I put their precious partner down on paper.  (Love to make a cop cry.)  But it's a good cry.

I'm looking at more ways to get people to my website.  I believe that will be a quest for a long time!

I am going to approach the new lady at the Visual Arts Center about a possible radio show.  I can't do it at the house because I don't have a land line phone.  This is a dream of mine, and I want to make it come true.

Other than my artwork, applying myself to get a job teaching one day a week at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda, Florida, there's not much I've done besides my artwork.  But that's okay, I'm focusing on my artwork.  That's the most important thing.

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