I’m happy you decided to join me today. Today art is inspired by Rain’s Thursday Art Date prompt, “Fine Art: Pop Art”. Rain offered a brief description of what Pop Art but being a self-taught artist with little understand of the various artistic style and how they developed I feel ignorant even after reading what it’s suppose to be. I’m like the light is on but no one is home. When I think of Pop Art, comic book style images come to mind and so that’s the approach I took with my sketch this week.
In Procreate, I drew my gal then I added color by using the brush from the Texture library called Decimals to give it a newspaper print vibe.
I’m not sure why I wanted to illustrate a woman crying over a looser of a boyfriend other than it’s an easy emotion to capture visually. The next image is the same as the first, except I used my photo-editing program, Pixelmator. With the software, I liked how the Photographic 1 filter which primarily adjusted the background colors the most.
This week’s Thankful Thursday …
I’m thankful I have an appointment today to get my quarterly bio-identical hormone replacement therapy that was suppose to happen last month but the doctor was out of the office and it took this long to get a good time slot.
I’m thankful despite my low hormones the symptoms haven’t been so horrible. Usually, I get real bad brain fog where it’s kinda difficult to grasp things and I’m more forgettable which brings me to the conclusion that MAYBE the new brain supplements are working. Yep, we’re taking some with the hopes to improving our memory. Not that it’s bad but aging plays bad tricks on the mind and why wait until it’s obvious you’re in trouble?
I’m also thankful for my appointment tomorrow for my bi-annual eye exam. My prescription has changed so now insurance pays some on my new glasses. YAY!
Finally, I’m thankful for living in God’s beautiful country. A couple of weeks we were on the Blue Ridge Parkway, just south of Boone, NC. One of our favorite spots on the parkway is Price Lake. On that visit, I was stunned to see the lake emptied. This was the first time ever in the history of 40+ years of visits to the area to see this mystifying sight. I missed the opportunity to take a picture but we learned that hurricane Henry damaged the flood gate. Last Friday, we were back up there. I was happy to see the water level beginning to rise. We parked at the boat ramp to have a picnic. I thought it was interesting to see the stones stacked on the exposed shore line which will soon disappear and decided to immortalize the moment. DH said, “No human would stack rocks like this.” his spin of the Ghostbusters line, “No human would stack books like this.”
What you thankful for today?
Borrowing from Kat’s prompts, I will share with you, 5 Things I Miss About Going to School.
- Getting a new lunch box
- A brand new box of crayons
- New clothes
- Seeing friends
- fall weather
Wha do you miss about going to school? Anything? Everything? Or, you could less about those days?
I’m heading over to Rain’s Garden to browse the gallery of artistry. Drawing (pun-intended) music inspiration I’m pulling off the shelf a Smokey Robinson (1965) cover recorded by Linda Ronstadt 10-years later, Tracks of My Tears.
Join me tomorrow for a double punch with Friday Fun Stuff and Friday Funnies editions. That’s right editions with a ‘s’ as in more than one! Have a doodletastic day! X💋X💋, Cathy
