Blog Award!

I just received a blog award from Who is Arthur Simo the Outsider Artist http://simoartcorner.blogspot.com/! This is a wonderful blog, please check it out.

I am supposed to name seven things I love and pass it on to seven other bloggers. I named 7 things for another award I received so I'll try to name some different ones. In no particular order:

1. My family, 2. Spring, 3. Fall, 4.The Ocean, 5. My pets, 6. Sunrise or Sunset, 7. Creating my art

Now to the blogs I would like to pass this on to:

Teresa at Tresses Art Blog http://tressesartblog.blogspot.com/
Robin at Art and Animals http://artandanimals.blogspot.com/
Jenna at Color Conscious http://color-conscious.blogspot.com/
Rose at ACEOS by Rosehttp://aceosbyrose2.blogspot.com/
Teri at Teri's Painted Daisies http://painteddaisies.blogspot.com/
Laure at Painted Thoughts Blog http://paintedthoughtsblog.blogspot.com/
Teresa at Blueberries, Art and Life http://blueberriesartlife.blogspot.com/

Please check these blogs out if you are not familiar with them. They are worth a look. Congrats everyone!

Sunflower

Sunflower

By: Lori Talbert

3/21/09

I've had some other things going on lately that maybe I'll talk about later if it works out, so I haven't had a lot of time for artwork.

However, I did manage to produce this. It is from a drawing challenge on a forum I belong to from a couple of months ago. I just had not gotten around to working on it. Flowers are not my strong suit but that is what a drawing challenge is about, getting out of your comfort zone and stretching your abilities.

I think it came out pretty good considering I don't usually do flowers. I wanted to do something colorful as I am longing for warmer weather and spring. Even though yesterday was officially the first day of spring it does not feel like it here.

It is an OSWOA, 4x6 colored pencil on bristol board.

A Little More Snow For Us

We had rain last night that changed over to snow and made a mess. There was a dusting of snow on the ground (less than 1/2 inch) and what we call "black ice" on the roads. Schools were first delayed and then closed.

My work place was delayed 2 hours but we have a back-up location that we can go to on time and I decided to go there today so I would not have to use any more vacation hours. The weather forecasters were not calling for travel problems with this system so the road crews had not treated any of the highways. There was a wreck below my house with red and blue lights flashing so I decided to drive with extreme caution.

I took an exit ramp off of the freeway and felt one of my tires lose traction with the road surface. As I stopped at the top of the ramp and looked in the direction I was going to turn, all I saw was icy road! There was a bridge over one side of the freeway, a short distance and then another bridge over the other side of the freeway, and then a steep hill that looked straight up . I wasn't sure I wanted to try it but I took a deep breath and started out. I was driving very slowly and of course someone had to tailgate me and try to push me faster. I hate it when people do that! I didn't let it rattle me though and made it to work OK, only three minutes late.

As I said in an earlier post we get bad weather so rarely that southerners do not drive well in it. We just don't get enough practice. The children were all excited to be out of school today (I know my son was) but they will have to make the day up from their spring break. The weather forecasters say another system will be moving through tonight and may bring us another dusting of snow. Personally, I have seen enough ice/snow for this winter! I am ready for spring!