IrelandBrady - Musings To Ponder

The Celebrate Oz Blog Party is now just around three weeks away!  If you would like to join in on the fun, fly away to Oma Linda's ...

If you would like to join in on the fun of the Celebrate Oz Party at Oma Linda's blog ... here is a link where you can sign up:  http:/...

Well, my little pretties, JULY 19TH,  is the "Return to Celebrate Oz Blog Party!" being hosted by the ever so talented and whimsi...

The other day I was searching for an unusual subject as the basis of my next illustration.  While I was looking through various images on t...

I have been looking at the "finished" pencil sketch of Mom and Dad for the past few weeks and something about Mom just looked ...

After studying yesterday's completed drawing I saw areas that needed a bit more work ... hopefully I won't find more areas or this...

I was visiting my Mom the other day and as I was leaving she handed me a part of a page from "The Hayden Island Yacht Club Roster...

This time out I attempted a water splash on black card stock ... only thing is, the colored paper had a bit of texture which kept complicat...

I am now working my way around the structure of water splashes ... this first one is of a stone being tossed in a pond, you can vaguely see...

I'm just posting the faces of the cards .... they speak from themselves!  We heard from our granddaughter on Sunday, she was r...

I finished two more original ACEO's featuring water drops .... I think I now have the concept of water drops down.  Plus, I'm getti...

I spent a long time on the internet this morning watching and reading tutorials on how to draw water drops.  I figure a couple more days an...

Uncle Pat and Darien's "Peepresentative" Danny Boy (our min pin) and Darien's "Peepresentative" I...

I had time to work on two more little ACEO Water Droplets ACEO's today .... "Water Droplets In Black" "...

I have decided I need to learn how to illustrate water droplets and here is my first attempt.  This was done on a blue colored piece of car...

Our eldest granddaughter recently left for the Navy Recruit Training Center ... Yep!  She is a "New Recruit"!  She likes her deci...

Well, she is finally complete .... I did bits of detail work here and there, especially on lightening some of the driftwood pieces behind t...

Today we needed to drop off Danny Boy at the vets for his semi-annual wellness checkup and needed vaccines ... plus major nail clipping.  S...

I began today by finishing the hands, complete with sand!  The shoe was next followed by the feather in the sand castle.  Moving along nice...

Today was glorious outside!  In the low 80's .... I was so distracted I put very little time into the illustration ... I did mange to f...