bye, Buddy

R.I.P. Buddy

July 11, 2010

This was truly one of the nicest dogs God ever made. He was one of the seven that lent this blog its name, and he left us peacefully and suddenly without warning. You will be remembered and missed, Buddy.

thank you D.H.

Thank you D.H. for the opportunity to paint this.

You are fabulous!

"Tucker"

that was bonnie; this is clyde

Here is the mate to the other poster below. It was harder to get his eyes to show up because of less contrast.

________Clyde

messing around with photoshop

I spent some time experimenting with artistic filters in Photoshop, and came up with this result. It is a portrait of a family member's dog. I had to create her left eye color where none showed due to lack of contrast. It's not perfect, but not bad for a first attempt, I think. It may make a nice poster if I ever decide to print it out in large size.

Bonnie

hanging in there

big hug

















wood-man



_ Woody still seems like he's still feeling OK, and he's getting alot of love.

a goodish, baddish day

Yesterday i was excited to watch the inaguartion of Barack Obama, and I was photographing images off of my flat screen TV like a nerd, but I don't care.

Meanwhile, my big dog had gone to the vet for routine bloodwork prior to dental cleaning.

______________________________woody




I was shocked to get a call from the vet telling me one of his tests came back showing an elevated "something"cell count that was an indicator of bone marrow cancer (rarely) or kidney tumors. I generally don't believe in extreme measures to prolong the life of a dying animal, and after several phone calls back and forth from the vet, to me, to my husband, blah blah...we decided to just let him be and keep him as happy as we can.

He's sort of a big dog, and he is 8 years old, but I felt like someone slammed a door in my face and punched me in the chest. We sucked it up enough to take a bunch of pictures, in the hopes that some turn out to be good, and even had some laughs doing that, but it's all bittersweet.

i love him and i'm going to miss him

i figured out how to make this...

I decided to give my online identity fresh look for the new year. I am proud of this result, as I am not much of a techie whiz at all, so it is all the trial and error method for me. Ususally months later I come across the easy way to do what I was trying to do. I seem to spend alot of time trying to re-invent the wheel.