Different Strokes from different folks drawing

I came across this fun Blog. You can see the link on my page here under links. Click it and check it out. 

She posts a new photo every other Wed. of something she photographs and anyone who wants to can paint or draw it. She then posts them on her blog. I love to see all the different interpretations of the one subject.

Here is my pencil/pastel drawing of the subject this week.  

NOSE DRAWINGS

Here are my NOSE drawings.  

It is amazing how different everyones nose is! As I draw I am concentrating on "SEEING" the shapes and shadows, not thinking how it is a nose.

Tomorrow on to mouths and then 2 self portraits.

I was sitting here with my leg propped up drawing noses. I Googled " Pig noses " thinking it would be fun to draw a pig nose and came across a journal about how a guy had to put down his Guinea pig. He had a picture of his pig and he was so cute. His name was Louis. ( The Pigs name ) It started me thinking of my pigs that i had in the past.  Spunky, Sherburt and Chewy. They were sweet little guys.  I used to call out their names when I would come into the house and they would squeal a greeting to me.  And when I would bring them my extra cuttings from the salad they would go nuts!

ANYWAY.... I was inspired to draw the handsome Louis as a memorial to him and to all handsome Guinea Pigs everywhere!

Thanks for the memories Louis!

                                                            My head in the clouds!
                                                           Me posing as an Alice in Wonderland caricature.

                                            And another silly photo of my very large brain!

                                            Does this photo make me look smart?

I missed my drawing class last week because it was the day after my surgery. 

I need to draw 10 mouths and two self portraits by Friday.  

That shouldn't be hard.  I have 3 people here that I live with, my 2 dogs and the rest I will get from photos. 

The self portraits should be interesting! I have never done one.

Here are some fun photos I took while playing on my Apple computer in the photo booth.  Not being able to walk really puts a stop to lots of important things and has enabled me to just do silly fun stupid things like these photos!

I started my blog and now I have been DOWN for about a week. Literally down! I had to have a minor surgery done on my right foot. 

Last Feb. I stepped onto a fountain pen.  You ask how the H-ll I could do that? Well, I was wearing sandals and when I drug my foot out of the car and stepped onto the driveway, I guess the fountain pen became lodged between my foot and sandal. The pen went straight into the foots arch.  

The next day I went to my Doc. showed her the shattered pen and told her how much it hurt.  I think she thought I was being silly because she put a band aid on it an sent me home. 

 Well, by July my ankle was hurting and the Doc. sent me for an Xray to check for Arthritis.  After the Xray Tech. took the first photo she asked me in a funny voice if I had any recent accidents.  I told her the only thing I had done recently was step on a pen that went up my foot.  She said, "Well, that explains it then"! She shows me the photo and there is my foot with the little metal writing end of the pen sitting in between some bones in my foot. 

I was kinda glad to see that because I was having pains in the foot and assumed it was Arthritis.  That being said I was annoyed that my Doc had not dug around in the wound to make sure nothing was stuck in it. 

I had surgery last week to remove it.  When the Doc got into the foot, he could not get the metal pen piece but he did repair the tear in the large ligament that the little pesky pen went through! He told me that if I am ever putting my socks on and feel an area in my foot that is protruding, let him know. It will most likely be that pen piece and he can easily remove it. He said it was just way up in the foot and he was concerned about hitting nerves and ligaments.

I can't walk for 3 weeks! My art studio is upstairs too so... I just have to be patient and before I know it, I will be up and runnign again! ( No, I do not run, I walk but you know what I mean!)

This morning I had my son sit down while he ate a hot pocket and I drew his nose.  

His nose is a thing of sheer beauty, don't you think? 

When you focus on parts of the face to draw and not try to think about the whole area you see much more in the subject.  I saw things in this nose I have never noticed before,  that sounds silly and a little gross but it is true.