da storm, da storm day 10....

my my this is just zipping by-- actually i am getting a lot done on it but there is a LOT left to do because of the size of the image area, although i am more then halfway home on this.... i'll work more of course today...

i have to start laying out the next one however and i also have to revise the storyboard.

i am thinking i really like this though. and i am also thinking that i am going to put a color overlay on it. thin washes of saturated earth tones.

i know it can also be printed that way...the black and white plate and an overlay plate of color washes......i've seen books that way

i think it would work well that way

i still really like the original drawings i did to illustrate the duck stories i keep here on the blog.....when they thought they saw polar bears and killer whales out back in the snow

now they see the monsters in the swirling leaves

in snow news.... THIS is my yard, it doesn't look like that right now....it's much worse.

bernie is of course in jersey with the fleet..... and i am not a happy camper here. he came home briefly at 4 pm and got a lot of wood in, moved the Aframe pen by the back door....and then left for work again.

his sister called me last night.... thank goodness as i was feeling really really sorry for me. Feb is a bad month for me to begin with, i think it has something to do with lack of daylight.

and for him to be gone so much is very hard on me.

now however it would appear that this storm may be over by friday, which means he will be home over the weekend. meanwhile it's just us chickens, and ducks and cats and budgies here.

i know i won't be able to dig us out though so if there is any accumulation he won't be able to get in the driveway...

i won a skein of yarn in the contest for spirit trail fiberworks, jen had dyed some extra for the yarn and fiber clubs as a contest thing and i won one of the extras!!! it's her new sunna yarn.... merino, cashmere, and silk.... i think something beaded no? it's blues and greens.... now i am not much of a green person, but i think if i put yellow silver lined beads on this i may like it a lot.....and of course since it's jen's you KNOW that the colors are dazzling.... (and they are...and truly even the green isn't bad but i just don't like green much)

i have enough to do a scarf and maybe even a hat.........(it's a fingering weight but that's ok for a hat if i do color work)

ok it's 8:28 am..... i know i'm late posting

i am most likely going to add to this later

i should get the ducks out now....... as i don't think they are going to be staying out too long....depends on the depth of the snow

and if the electric goes out.....i can't get through the basement easily....