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With frustrating hand tremors, I have turned my focus to photography. Here is a breathtaking sunset I got this past Spring, as we waited for a major thunderstorm headed our way. This is looking West, toward Dallas. It seems it was a freak combination of the sun setting behind thunder clouds, reflecting off the raindrops.

I happened to walk into our office, that evening, and it looked like the sky was on fire! It reminded me of a smoke filled sky, when there is a massive forest fire.

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ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!
 

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Here are a couple of my peices from this past week. The herding one is still being worked on but the other two are finished and delivered. That is my handsome Nephew ;) :love
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I have actually just been asked to donate some of my peices / gift certificate for a personalized portrait to a rescue group so I am super excited. It is not the first time I have been asked to donate, nor the first or only time I will donate but every time for me is super exciting hehe. :celebrate
 

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Here are a couple of my peices from this past week. The herding one is still being worked on but the other two are finished and delivered. That is my handsome Nephew ;) :love
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I have actually just been asked to donate some of my peices / gift certificate for a personalized portrait to a rescue group so I am super excited. It is not the first time I have been asked to donate, nor the first or only time I will donate but every time for me is super exciting hehe. :celebrate
Very nice! Your portraits remind me of a pencil drawing I did of my son when he was 8 months old. I made the mistake of doing it on newsprint, because that was all I had at the time. DS is now 38 and the drawing is long gone, since it turned so brown, that the drawing was hard to see. :hit

Good for you, donating portraits for charity. That's awesome! :hugs
 
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Very nice! Your portraits remind me of a pencil drawing I did of my son when he was 8 months old. I made the mistake of doing it on newsprint, because that was all I had at the time. DS is now 38 and the drawing is long gone, since it turned so brown, that the drawing was hard to see. :hit

Good for you, donating portraits for charity. That's awesome! :hugs
Awe I am so sorry! That is heartbreaking!

Thank you.
 

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If you're willing to risk it you might spray it with a workable fixative and trace the darkened image then work a new piece. I sometimes trace my own work to transfer an image or to archive it.
 

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For Samantha drawz, such nice work! I'd like to start an animal portrait biz but I'm going to have to make major changes to do it. Paraphrasing a farm wife's blog- if you don't do your chores something wilts, suffers or dies. Not that you need it but I've found The Big Book of Realistic Drawing Secrets by Carrie Stuart Parks a very good study. Uh oh:yaagain.
 
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