Darkness Falls....

So today there was a total eclipse of the Sun resulting it what is known as a Ring of Fire. And I will be honest, for the whole week they have been talking about this thing, I have been humming Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash. Be honest, you have too. The local news had full coverage of the event and had a live stream on their website.  We didn't set up any pinhole viewers of anything, but man, the light was so strange with all these weird shadows. It was pretty awesome even if you didn't see the moon block out the Sun completely.
It has been unbearably hot today and thus I thought it the perfect time to start sketching again. Yup, I'm brilliant. Tomorrow promises to be cooler. I hope so, I am just not built for heat..I'm also not built for cold either as anyone who's heard me belly ache about the wind can attest. However the sketch that I have been working on is not done as of the time of this post, so you will get other prettiness.

So this is the last painting I did up in Humboldt, the last acrylic painting I've done in a while. It is called Baby's First Horde and is acrylic on canvas and not very big, a foot by two feet maybe. Anyway the concept of Baby's First Horde occurred to me during one of the numerous Baby Showers I attended as a teen. It struck me that the showers were nothing more than ways of getting lots of stuff for the new baby really fast. A horde if you will. So that naturally(for me at least) lead to thinking of dragons and in particular baby dragons curled up with all their nifty new things. Which sparked not only several strange looks but several versions on the same idea. I have one around somewhere that's done in ink and colored pencil... Anyway, this painting was given away as a Baby Shower gift itself. Oh, irony..