Thanks, Cindy, I'm pleased ta meetcha! :) I'm even more pleased that you found the comment helpful, and that it cheered you up. I know what it's like to have too many nights when sleep eludes you, and a friendly comment can make a world of difference to me, so I try to aim for saying something both friendly and useful.
FYI, my hallucinations tended toward the bizarrely entertaining, the sole convincing one being <flourish of trumpets> a cardboard box. It's a funny story, message me sometime when you're bored or need a laugh, and I'll tell it to you. :)

Wow! This is beautiful, DBA! I love the sunset sky! And, I think that the horse's shadow is sooo cute! ^_^

Willow: no, we're fun to talk *at* :)

tits and ass? kinda a pleasant suprise from you, i daresay.

"spectacular" in appearance

Is this Mr. Googles at all related to Mr. Woggly? There's a bit of a resemblance... ;)

Really, really perky. She's either stretching or upside down. lol

awesome, looks like an uber old portait, esp with the offwhite bg. love the expression.

wow, this one stuck out, love the contrast you use in all of your images, so COOL

greta garbo!! awesome!

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Beautiful

still beautiful

lol, dba, whatever it is its really trippy, and i love it. the colors are really cool. nice piddlin if you ask me :)

Oh give it a rest you old geezer! (jk) lol

lol...<shifts into "rest"..

see..you DO sketch like a bitch.

Thanks yall. :)

Oooh, more pictures of the home of my heart! You have a real gift for rendering this kind of scene, Cindy! :) There are two points that I have to question, though, for future reference (again, not that I could do this myself, but I can tell that these two points don't look quite right -- my eye being better at this than my hands, as yet, at least).

First, the ripples in the dry wash of the path seem to me to be too consistently angled, instead of following the curves of the path, the way I'd expect them to, if they were caused by water running over the mud during flood time (which is what I think of when I see that kind of image). They'd make more sense if there were a way for the water to have acted on the land outside of the path, the same way, but with the wall there, I'd expect the water to be restricted to the path more, and curve to follow it, during flash floods.

Second, the tufts of greenery on the bush don't seem to have a correlary set of darker areas, within the shadow of the bush, so it looks to me like the shadow is of a bush that doesn't have as much foliage on it as this one does.

These are both fairly minor points though, which I offer only in order to point out directions in which you can continue to work on advancing your work, which is already spectacular, and VERY evocative of the landscapes you've been painting. <smile> As you may be able to tell, what I've seen so far has been enough to spur me to go back through the pictures in your user board, in order to see more of these pieces! <grin> But even great artists can still grow, and I hope I've offered some useful suggestions for your consideration, here. :)

sure, always, I appreciate all the helpful suggestions. (Actually, it doesn't rain often where this was taken from and it's very windy, so I assume the ripples were caused by the wind since the sand changes rapidly - although the rain does a number on this wash when it does happen)

thanks D. i'm sticking with sketching for now. those airbrush tools look great but take too long for my hasty style.

Yea 10 minutes? you sketch well! looks like john lennon and wonderwoman on their first date!

thanks davin. eight actually. the last two minutes were an added on when i posted it twice. :)

Nice clouds... soft and dark! I like the elephants too! >:D
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awwww sweet and wonderful colors!

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