Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.

Hi all,
    Sadly I do not have a Xmas image to share this year, so thought I would show you this instead, which is a pic of Bluebell being silly, well shes upside down getting her tum tickled by her dad which she loves...honestly this baby is soooo spoilt, but hey ho I am dog mad,love them all and why not.
   Thanks for all the answers on my previous post, and thinking it about some more am in agreement. A mixture of different things is good I believe and stops the blog from getting stale, so I will continue to post my stone efforts here and any other art/dog thing that I do. The other reason is as well, that if I am honest I only have the time to keep one blog updated along with a few other sites, because the Internet is so addicting there would be no time left for me to create art.
   Lastly but not least I wish you all a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year, thanks for following and sticking with me through the good and bad times and I will catch up with you on the other side of Xmas, with a new post for my aims in 2011 and what I felt I did/not achieve in 2010.
  Be well, be safe, and most of all keep warm.

A Handful of Bugs

Hi all,
      How are you all coping with this mad weather? Hard to believe that Britain is almost at a stand still due to it, and one can only hope for a bit of respite and normality soon.
      Thanks for all your recent comments appreciated as always, and as you can see above I have created some more stone bugs. I love doing these and find this sort of art/craft very relaxing and to keep it more interesting my cut wood rounds have arrived too, so will hope to show something new with those in the early part of next week. I do have a question to put to you my dear fellow readers and if I asked this before then please forgive me, the brain is not what it used to be in my youth ! When I set this blog up firstly I did so just for my pencil work/drawings etc hence the title "art with a pencil", but like most artists we tend to experiment try other media and explore. So my question is to you when you come to read this blog, does it irritate/ annoy you that the subject matter is not just pencil related anymore ? I have in the past separated my art into different categories via another blog, but as those were still pencil related I deleted those blogs and moved them back to here, but as painted stones/wood is quite different in style and media should I mix that up with the pencil stuff ?
     Thanks to anyone who replies, your input is valued as I want to give all my readers/followers the best I can.

   Just a quick note the photo is a tad blurred because I took it with my camera phone.

A few Stones.

Hi all,
Again I am making this post from my phone,got to say so far I am quite impressed so will use it a lot more in the future methinks.
As I said in my previous post I had painted a few stones and these are for a friend to give to some birthday gals who have reached 40. The colours are their favorites and the pattern mine....these will be used as paper weights which I thinlk will look great. No gloss yet and the photos taken with my phone so perhaps not top quality.

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Computer Upgrade

Hi all
A bit behind with everything as I am having my computer upgraded with a new mother board/graphics card etc so am making this post from my trusty phone, but do hope to be back to normal by sometime tomorrow.
In the art department I have been playing around with paint on wood and have created a few more stones, which I will try and upload later, in the meantime I will leave you with a picture of Bluebell and her evergrowing mohican !

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Snow Weather

Hi all,
    Gosh what a week it has been with all the snow that is covering most of the UK, and my heart goes out to those people who live in some very remote areas. Yet again we have been caught unawares, simply because I think no one expected us to get so much, and I myself cannot remember the last time it fell like this in Nov early December. Have to say I am not a big fan, as it makes for hard walking and poor Bluebell went out early this morning for a pee and could not seem to find a spot that was safe enough for her to squat without getting icicles hanging off her lol. Going out for a longer trek got us as far as the park before she decided that it was enough, and being a scruffy hairy dog came home with snowball feet and face ! Bless her she has yet to do a poo !
  As you can see the GSD is about done apart from some tweaking. This has taken a time to do as this dog is practically black apart from some tan around the mouth area and lower neck, so building up the layers has been quite important to get that depth. As I said in a previous post the photo is not the best to work from, and the mouth detail was difficult to see so a bit of artistic licence was used here and other places. I am quite happy with how it came out, but already see a few areas that need a tweak,especially around the nose so I will let it sit for a day or so and then make the adjustments.
Whats up next I ask myself well I have a couple of pics that I want to finish, but have already got my paints out and am experimenting on the wood craft circles that I bought a few weeks ago, plus doing some of the mdf aceo boards that I purchased a while back off eBay, and am looking forward to "playing" with some mixed media.