Saturday, June 20, 2009
Birdy in Progress
 Here is a bird I am working on. It isn't half finished yet but I thought I would share it nonetheless. The model is in a photograph found online. It is such a pretty bird that I thought I would try to reproduce it.  Here is the internet photo I found 
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Glass and Fish
I may have overdone this. But it's interesting if not very good.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
To a Wild Rose
As long as I can remember my mother wore Avon's "To a Wild Rose" perfume. They no longer make it I think, but I can still remember it being her favorite. Later she loved Charlie by Revlon.
I have lots of wild roses in the yard growing in the back and up the side of the chimney, both in deep pink and white. I drew this wild rose this evening.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
New Work
Little Sparrow
Here is a little huddling sparrow that I made today. I spent a part of the afternoon painting him. He isn't finished and needs some cleaning up and work on a tail but over all I like him and will finish him up soon.
Above is a scaled down header banner that I am working on also. Its done a bit differently than some I have painted. I did this not long ago and am still in the process of working on it.
I have about 10 paintings that are nearly or partly done and I switch back and forth on them so there is variety. This will need a lot more work before I am ready to use it.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Chickadee
It's been a bit since I last posted. I have just been a bit lazy I suppose. But I have been drawing all along.
Here is today's work: 
A chickadee on fire thorn branch. I used a photograph for inspiration.
This drawing took about an hour to do.
I plan to do more nature pictures for my blog as decorations.
This is another banner I am working on for Lemon Lime Moon.
I love painting the dunes at the Jersey Shore.
Just a fun little drawing I made this morning.
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Trying Something New Out
I did this painting of Pres elect Obama. I think it catches his features in a cartoonish way. He has kind of sad eyes and he does have a huge smile. Just a fun picture of him.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Jacob's Ladder
 Jacob's Ladder. I did this for a blog post since I could not find a suitable picture. When that happens I make my own. I kind of like it.
I have the angelic beings walking upward in a nebula sort of thing while Yaacov (Jacob) is sleeping on the stone.
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Java Calendar Backgrounds
 Three more calendar backgrounds.
I like to make these backgrounds for java calendars for blogs and web pages.
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Image Made for a Blog Post
I just liked how this came out.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
New Galaxy
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Japanese Lantern
Lantern light.. well going for that look anyway.
Not sure I succeeded here.
But I like it nonetheless.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
The Glass SeaHorse....and more
And the Lost Galaxy
Friendship and happiness
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Doodling in Photoshop
 I have no clue what this is for. I made it while just fooling around.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Several of the advertisements I made are being featured now in national magazines. Just waiting to be paid for them now.
It is exciting that my work is in such large magazines 
I got paid for the work on the web headers and that was very exciting!
I have had to put my own art on hold while doing professional work but I enjoy both so it isn't a problem.
 Have you seen this generator site? You can select your own photo of picture to replace the one on it and add your own title.
You will find it HERE
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
More of the Forest Village Paintings
The Forest Village paintings are in progress. This is the second in the series.
Click on it to see full sized
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
The Amazing Human Eye
Eyes of Violet/Blue Green
In creating a dreamy effect and cropping a photo of a dear sweety in my life. I had to do extreme closeups and I was stunned by the beautiful colors that went into making up her gorgeous green eyes.
Here is the eye as it appears without a close up.. I brought up the purple because there is purple or violet around the eye. But this small photo doesnt really show that. I wanted to show how the eye appears without being close . Now below is a closeup of the same eye and samples of the colors found in the iris . It is incredible what goes into making the colors of the human eye. Nothing is retouched in these photographs. Now I understand why Elizabeth Taylor had "violet eyes" The violet was just more pronounced in her eyes. Amazing work our Creator does!
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Few New Efforts..flower, link button, Fairy Cottage
A Link Button I made and stuck up on "Lemon" at Sultan Knish's insistance on a "home" link.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Some of my Work
Here are some of my paintings in frames. I like this one though its not a great work at all, of course. I love the colors and what it represents.
I have used this egret over back salt marsh for a header on Lemon Lime Moon.
This is one of the Cedar Water Creeks that flow thru the great piney woods. Crystal clear with sandy white bottoms, the water is stained a cedary red brown from cedar trees.
I enjoy making the reflections in the "water".
I learned to do it from Bill Alexander and his "almighty Fanbrush".
This is just wild reeds that grow in salt marsh and by the ocean and bay and the small creeks that flow around them. They are home to all kinds of creatures from otters to birds , deer and rabbits. I once saw a baby mink in this place here.
I love the rich jewel tones which I try to keep as close to real as possible. When the sunlight hits the water just right, it reflects the sky in this killer sapphire blue. This was painted quickly but, I like it nonetheless.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
It's been a bit since I updated here, but no worry, hardly anyone comes here so it doesn't really matter I would suspect.
Been working on new headers including tiny ones using a VanGogh type painting routine.
Made a newer logo for lemon which is kind of cute .. maybe.. who knows .
Could be better but with 44 frames I think its enough for a while.
I use this blog to store some things also, like my small paintings etc. It makes a good file cabinet.
I made about 12 new headers for the Sultan Knish blog also and he has used 2 of them so far.
Click on them to see them up close and personal.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Snowman for You
 its a rainy blustery night outside. I was about to get to bed when I had a hankering to make a snowman. Since there is no snow I drew him and of course once i drew him I had to bring him to life a bit with animation.
If you like him you can have him if you click here. I have right click disabled on here to protect some of my stuff (dream on..lol) so I put the snow man on another silly blog I have..
Yes, I have a ton of blogs. Some for practice, some I made as gifts for people and I maintain them for them, etc. So this one I will put give aways on til I figure out a better way. His bottom is a bit ragged..sorry. But on a white background you cant see that it is. So he will look nice on most white backgrounds.
Anyway you can use him in email or on your site to annoy people or whatever you wish to do.
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
More Mastheads in the Works
 It snowed a bit this morning but nothing to write home about and it is drizzling cold rain right now. Freezing will be a yukky problem.
If you have face book you might wish to close up the holes in it using this tutorial from Wiki which is quick and easy to follow. I do not have it, but if I did I would certainly use this quick fix to prevent a loss of privacy. HERE is the link.
I have begun a new series of paintings that I minaturize for my blog. This one is called clouds and I kind of love to draw clouds.
This one is called Snow Fall and of course once again its my familiar theme of the back bay.
Hope you like them. Maybe they are a bit boring for some since they are a recurring theme.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Blessing of Little Chicklettes
There is a cute site that allows you make your own little avatar for blog, email or whatever. I animated this one below, and redrew the face with open eyes in order to do so, but they are cute even as still frame pictures.
 You can make your own Chick HERE. They are quite cute.
 my birthday chick.
I am working on new calendars with glass "coverings" over them now.
  
The glass hides some of the painting but, overall I kind of like them. If you stop by, let me know what you think as well, and make yourself a little Bless This Chick avatar and show me ok? I would love to see them.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Chanamations
I have been working on these for a little bit to use on my blogs.
I got the idea while looking out the window on a rainy night and the view was framed so perfectly and I thought about how nice it would be to always have a little vignette of the window. So, I began to make these. simple window, then a candle I always keep on the window in a simple red dish, then added the views. Some , of course are my own paintings just put behind the window and others I did expressly for the window 'chanamations'. I experimented with different flames on each also.
  Rainy day , sailing along.
  My lovely 'prairie fire' crab apple tree , Winter and Spring!
  Snow Storm and simple to make stars on a mobile.
 I like this one since it has an egret and my backbay view, but most especially since it shows my mother's old silver cake stand complete with small chocolate cake ready to blow out the candles and take a bite! This is from my painting of the Salt Marsh back bay. I just used a piece of the larger painting in the *window*.
 A moving mobile. Below is a small version of the backbay painting. Of course its made tiny so its a bit distorted but you get the idea.
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I am under the weather so .. post later tonight or tomorrow with my new chanamations series.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Tutorial for Captioning and Post "Wrap" in Blogger
Here are instructions on how to make a professional looking caption under a photo on your blog. It is easy to do if you just copy and paste this formula into the blogger html. Look at the previous post to see where you access your "Edit Html" on blogger post page. Don't be intimidated by it as it is not as hard as it might seem.
After you plug in all the pictures you want from your photo account, like tiny pic or photobucket, etc (use the direct link option they provide) and choose the color of your caption, then write your post in the area indicated.
The post will look professional, neat and really nice.
Make use of your notepad too. It is a really good way to prevent errors.
If you paste the formula here into notepad then adjust the color of the caption to your liking, add your photo links and then write your post, you can then "select all" under "edit" hit control C
and then post onto blogger with control V. Voila.. done .
To save this from this page, left click on the formula image, it reopens in a new page. Go to file on top of the page, then 'save as' and save it where you can find it. You can put it into your photobucket account. But be sure to save it so you can copy and paste it into your blog.
The example below is made into a jpg so left click on it to open in a seperate window then copy the page.
 Example of a finished product:
"Risque Photo of Lemon in Tub"
Here is the formula in action, complete with risque depiction of that fresh little squirt Lemon in her very own tub!! (Oh, the outrage of it all. What chutzpah the girl has! Is there no end to her freshness? I think not as she uses lovely smelling Cashmere Bouquet soap to wash each day.)
Now the more you type here the more the words will "wrap" around the photo in a nice way.
I suppose I could just type and type til it shows that, but if you look at the Lemon Lime Moon Blog you will see it constantly in action.
There are tons of methods you can use using html to make your blog look more professional or in my case like a circus on paper!
As I said the more you type the more you will wrap around.
Here is a link showing a magazine style I used on Lemon that you can use to make a blog interesting. It doesn't really work all that well and it's a real pain to implement changes to make it work too. I only link it to show what html can do and really just to take up space so this will wrap around the photo in demostration. I am not Chatty Cathy really and am running out of filler here. I think this is enough. If you have more questions on this html method of photo captioning let me know and I will try to answer them for you .
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Resizing Pictures on Blogger
 This is a picture tutorial on resizing
photos and pictures on blogger.
Click on photos if you need them larger. I hope this helps.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Redoing Photographs
This is the photo I found on the internet and which I reproduced with paint for the header below.
I don't often reproduce photos. But in this case I did and also here in this redo of a photo of Mrs. Glanz a Jewish holocaust victim who touched my heart so much.
Here is the original very damaged in its original sepia tones.
Here is my redo of the photo.
I did several other redos of photos of holocaust victims also, such as a wedding photo of a young couple that was very weathered and didnt do them justice anymore. I suppose I try to honor their memory in this way.
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
New Headers
Take into account these are greatly reduced and blurry. You can click them to see full size if you like.
 These two, above and below are experiments in bright color. Not sure about them.
I paint things first, then turn them into mastheads for blogs.   This is my rendition of a photograph shown to me by Sultan Knish. I took liberities with the sky, dappling it with additional color . The original was purple and black with the white.. I thought it was in need of just a bit more color when I reproduced the photo with paint. I added Celtic letters which I did in metallic silver ..why? I don't have a valid explanation. Just liked it I think. I am not sure how much I like headers like this. The one below is another kind of header I am also not sure of:
Its contains a copy of an old photograph from the turn of the century onto which I painted clouds, etc. and an illuminated moon. It is sort of cute.. but my real reaction as to using it as a blog header is .. eh.. *shrugs*.
Its the kind of header everyone uses. A photo with words over it.. blah. They are fine, just not for me. I love painting minatures from scratch that I can use. For me, my blog(LemonLimeMoon) is not just about the written content, but also about providing something pleasing to the eye. These might make an appearance on the blog, but, not for long. They were interesting to paint, interesting to work on, but, they are blah. Labels: painting
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Monday Monday..
 Its a really breezy day today and its really lovely when its like that, I think . There are literally hundreds of tadpoles in the pond and baby fish  . Just what I don't need. But the lilies and parrot feather are looking good and it gets complements from everyone who sees it. A chipmunk loves it! He sits on the side daily for hours gazing in , cooling off. He washes his face in it and drinks from it. Doves congregate around it also and it provides a place for Mr. Bunny to get a refreshing drink also. H.wants me to make a mast head of fireworks at night. So I began one yesterday. I also have to make her a map of the United States that blinks in certain areas so I have to start the drawing on that and get the animation done. Her company wants a new website and so I will be making some ideas up for them. Most people seem to stick with the generic templates they get and never do much with them. If they are happy with that , its cool. But for me its boring. I love to change the templates around, write new html for them and experiment with color and pictures etc. To me, thats the fun of having blogs. I have made headers for most people I know...they just don't know it .  Looks like rain and now accu weather says thunderstorms are heading in. So it will not be an outside day. Typical though, watered the lawn a bit yesterday as it was kind of dry. Now come the storms. Anyway, here is a sticker I made  I am not sure what for. I suppose for anyone who would want one or could use one, though I have no clue as to what they would do with it. But, I kind of like it. So if you want one, just ask and its yours.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Fourth of July
    Blogger has been broken for a bit.. so no posts for a while but it seems to allow me to post once again. Yesterday was a difficult day,and the yahrtzeit(memorial of death) of the bonnie wee girl... Today is the 4th of July, independence day and we are glad for the freedoms that we have. The day is damped down for me because of past history but, I am proud to be American and grateful to live in the USA. There were fireworks last night, a huge display after a nice concert, and there are more tonight. There is a place on the bay where you can go and see 6 towns at once. It is in the distance but still nice. I am still not sure what my friends and I will do. It's a bit iffy for an outting and we avoid the beaches in summer because of the tourists . The traffic is just not nice, the bathing suits are somewhat yukky (hehehehe) and we just go beginning in September when they all go home. We also have private places they don't know about which is nice too. I don't swim anymore like I used to . On a very hot day I will go to the creeks and sit in water. I don't use bathing suits, I just go in whatever I am wearing and I am a happy clam  Its been that way since I was little. I have made a few new minature paintings .. I work on one in particular, I dabble on others and I keep working on old ones to better them. They are used on Lemon Lime Moon and you can see them there. Sometimes I will post them here too. These little blogs help me keep a record of what is going on in life and I am grateful for them. Til next time, peace.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Antares
 The new pond out front is just about finished. Fish are in from the other pond, pond margin plants are in , including a night blooming Tropical waterlily called "Antares" named after the largest star in the night sky. Its a deep, rich red and the leaves a rich dark green. Its spectacular! It will be joined by a white day bloomer soon. A lovely Iris blooms in the shallows and other tropical plants share the space. The fish are skittish since they are used to a far larger pond and over 3ft of water. Now in their new 24 inch home, and half the space these guys need plenty of hiding places. I need to provide some underwater plants for them to hide amongst. Just wanted to share my lily with you. Til next time, I leave you on a happy note.  
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Problem Solving Lemonit is my opinion that the problems of the world stem from one thing mainly:  So, rock and roll oldies are on for a while on Sky.FM net radio. While you are listening.. call your congressman and let them know you want internet radio to remain around for a long long time, won't you?
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New Minatures for Blog Headers
This is part of my new Hawaiian Islands collection of minature paintings. This is the unfinished version here.
And this with title
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Monday, May 28, 2007
Making Emoticons and Getting Creeped Out
I am making some new emoticons for blogs.  Here is a thinking girl pondering the rain. I call it California dreaming. I will sell them eventually I think ..or give them away to people.. I just am not sure yet. I draw them pixel by pixel then animate the drawing. I uploaded this to tinypic to show on here and they have videos now. Some are really offensive. Most of them , in fact. Just a bunch of people doing mindless stuff. You don't even have to go inside the video area look at them , they just have samples up , stills you can see to make you want to watch them, or in my case to creep me out badly There is one of this creepy little chinese kid superimposed over a girls body..its just creepy and sick. I don't find that kind of thing even mentally normal. Also, I resent this stuff thrown right in your face as an advertisement. Some people's ideas of fun are what I consider mentally deranged frankly.
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