Bitsa week for WOYWW

It's been a bitsa this and

bitsa that week.

I'm doing a sketchbook course

and that's what is on my desk.
No boring paperwork anymore

I've finished it and I even

filed it away.

Now that's a first for me!

No it's not on the floor

I actually filed it in the filing cabinet!

See, the desk is still quite tidy :)

For my sketchbook course we had to draw

 something with lots of detail.

So I decided to do my iron,

 (hey it's far better than actually ironing with it).

You can see 6 ink pens,

would you believe all but one were

dried up, talk about pain in the bum.

The sweets are for my sugar fix.

I got them free with some printer ink,

that alone keeps me going back them :)

 How cute are my new drawers.

I bought them to hide all the rubbish that sits on

top of the printer and they go perfectly with

my Tardis and Darlek.

I had a finish bits week with my painting.

I finished off my beautiful pelican.

"Mr P Makes Waves"

 Just look at all that delicious texture.

I love him so much I'm going to keep him.

Then I put on the hanger and sealed

 my other painting.

"Sailing at Sunset"

This has heaps of mica paint but 

it doesn't show up in the photo

and then I started a new canvas

 Yep, back on birds again.

In class I'm doing this monstrosity

Mess

 

Super messy,

It's seagulls fighting over 

some food in the water.

I have to tell you that cos

there's no way you would see that

at this stage.

The ink's just gone down and 

it will be totally different when I 

get to class next week.

It's been a turbulent week with

Charlie parrot and trying to get

his medicine into him.

If you can imagine one little parrot

and three adults holding him down 

you might get the picture.

I always get the pointy end

but I still have most of my fingers left.

That's my desk for this week,

now why not hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on the other desks

around the world this wednesday.

Blah, paperwork for WOYWW

My desk is no fun this week.

I've left my tax until the last minute

and now all I have on my 

"art" desk is paperwork.

Blah, just like the old days

when I was a boring old bookkeeper.

(sigh).

Such a sad sight

and to make it worse,

the number one man in my life

is ill.

No, not my hubby

 he's way down the list.

It's my beautiful boy, Charlie the parrot.

He started picking at his feet and it wasn't mites.

Turns out he has extremely high

cholesterol, yes you heard right,

birds get high cholesterol

and no it wasn't all my fault,

well mostly, oh alright,

it was my fault.

I have had him for 24 years and fed him on 

the finest quality parrot seed and

what ever veggies we are having, 

in fact all the foods we eat

(he loves a good curry)

including his penchant for

Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

 But it was the seed that caused

most of the problems.

Who knew that you shouldn't feed a bird seed.

Once he's feeling better I have to put him 

on a strict diet of special pellets

and veggies

but he can still have the odd chocolate.

Trying to get his medication down his throat

is my biggest problem right now.

Who would have thought

this innocent looking little fellow

could be so strong and smart.

I've tried everything to get him to take his medicine.

It always ends the same,

I end up wearing the medicine.

If I put it on some food, he throws it at me.

If it gets put on some bread he throws it in his water bowl.

I tried holding him down but who knew he

could get that bottom beak around the top one

and bite a persons finger!

The vet assured me that all birds love this stuff

and it tastes like honey.

The only trouble is,

he isn't a bird, he's a flamin

 smart alec human wannabe!!

Just think how hard it's going to be to get

him off of seed and onto pellets.

Amidst the chaos of this week

I did do a little bit of painting

on my boat.

 

 I've started to add more light and shade

to the boat and

I added some oldness to the seats.

My teacher was explaining to us that there

should always be an element of death or age

Prior to shading.

to a painting to make it more real.

If you do a vase of flowers

there should always be a blemish or dead

leaf or petal.

So I decided to make the boat

a bit old and broken.

I'll do a bit to the hull as well

and then add some more contrast,

but it's looking good so far.

After a layer of shading, more to come.

Well that's me for this week,

now why don't you hop on over to

Julia's Stamping Ground

to see the other desks around the world

this workdesk wednesday.

Did you notice that apart from the tax stuff,

the room is still quite tidy!!!!

Surely that's worth a couple of brownie points??

Spring does scary things for WOYWW

There are people who go a bit loopy 

when there is a full moon

and there are people,

like me,

who, apart from being loopy

most of the time, go extra loopy

in springtime. 

Yes, spring has sprung with avengeance

around here.

I have to warn you, there is some scary

content further down this post.

Those weak of heart should sit down now.

But first, to my desk 

Nothing new here, it's been school holidays

so no art just madness.

Then on thursday we decided to go to Ikea.

Little Miss got lots for her room

an I got these little beauties

for my art room.

Trouble was, I couldn't move once they were in there.

That's when it happened.

I got this strange (spring has sprung) urge

and against all my better judgement,

this happened....

SIT DOWN

 QUICK

There was a white floor under all that mess!!

 Who would have thought, hey?

ARGH!!!  It's so clean.

I just couldn't help myself.

It started with just a little bag of rubbish

and then

this pile went to the rubbish tip

and the rest was spread around the lounge

Okay, so I won't show you the bad bit around the other corner, might be too much for you all.

See, my plan to take over lounge is working,

MWA HA HA.

In my madness I noticed that I had a bare wall,

so I soon fixed that

with a load of my old pics.

I just hope that my messy room isn't like

Samson's hair.

Cut out the mess and cut out the creativity.

Bah, who am I kidding,

it'll be a mess again in no time.

A little bit of art was done,

think they are finished but I 

won't seal them yet.

Lovin these colours.

 

This sunset is covered in mica paints but they won't photograph so you'll just have to trust me.

 School holidays are over now

so I hope to actually get in and use

my "Studio" before it 

becomes a tip again.

Well, that's all my shock and excitement

for this wednesday,

now why don't you hop over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see all the other desks around 

the world today.

P.S. Sorry about all the photo's Julia

but I had to document this problem

to warn others of the terrible

Spring has Sprung bug.

Being a cheapskate is not good this WOYWW

I have all sorts of goodies spread around

 my desks this week.  

I have something rare first

I tidied the inking station,

well not all of it but hey,

that's a lot for me.

Stop looking at the mess in the background,

you were lucky to see the front bit tidy.

You'd better look now as it won't last long!

Here's the main desk

 Back to the normal mess

but wait, there's something

Doctor Who added there!

Yes I know I'm sad but I couldn't resist

the sonic screwdriver pen and journal

and yes, that's a Tardis cup.

I added some water ripples to Mr P 

but being the cheapskate I am

I used up all of the mixed glaze rather than waste it

and now he's been over rippled.

I'll have to glaze over some of that white (sigh).

Being a cheapskate is really not good

when you need to do sketches.

I have three sets of glasses.

One for seeing, sunglasses and reading glasses.

In this country it is actually cheaper than getting 

graduated, self tanning (or as the boring people say,

light sensitive) glasses.

This seemed okay until I started to sketch

things a little further than my reading glasses could see.

Now I have to do this just to sketch

Of course I look like this, you don't think I would forget to put all the wrinkles in, do you?

and I have to tell you it ain't easy 

to balance all that lot

on your snoz.

I have to lift my head up and down 

to get the right lenses for which bit 

I want to see and it gets really confusing.

Plus my parrot doesn't like

me looking stranger than normal

and jumps up and tries to pull

the glasses off my nose,

that leads to putting the wrong glasses 

back on and I get really into a mess.

 

Now why don't I just get graduated glasses

for sketching, I hear you ask.

Well, that is my plan but you only get

one set of cheap glasses a year and

I've already had one this year,

so in my normal cheapskate way,

I've got to wait until next year to get them.

Until then it's double vision all the way.

 

Kinda gives a whole new meaning 

to four eyes, doesn't it?

Watch this space for some updates

(well I hope)

on my plan to take over the living room.

(mwa ha ha).

 

Now you've seen mine,

hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and have a look at the other

desks around the world

this What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

 

  

 

Too much poo cack is not a good thing.

I had a very rare whole day to paint today

and paint I did.

I bought my two inked paintings

home to work on

and decided to play with 

Mr P.

This is how he was when I brought him home

I roughed in his beak

gave him a bit of an eye

and a bit of shape to his beak.

I still have to refine it all 

but it's coming along nicely.

Except for his poo cack feathers.

Now my teacher is a

poo cack connoisseur,

she just loves that poo cack.

I, on the other hand resist it at every 

chance possible.

Yes De, I can hear you saying

you have to have poo cack to bring

out the bright colours.

But poo cack on his cute little feathers,

just can't stand it!!

Sorry De, I know you said NO

but I just had to do it.

Sorry about the toes, I inked some water and can't stand it upright yet.

Poo Cack GONE!!

Mwa ha ha, ooh the power,

I can sense the steam coming from 

my teachers ears,

ha ha ha ha ha......

See, even Mr P is smiling now!!!

Much as I hate to admit it,

a little poo cack is needed

just not on Mr P's feathers.

Happy painting everyone.

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