Mama Cormier

…. my journey to a healthy life, making new memories and so much more

365 Days of Art – Day 29

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….making up for my non-painting days

Carla Sonheim’s post the other day had us use the scraping method to make a random blob shape onto watercolour paper and then look for shapes or designs to bring out with marker. This was a lot of fun.

For some reason I saw birds and cats. I hate drawing cats, only because I don’t think I’m very good at it, so I did the two birds first. In the first blob I saw an eagle with a fish in his mouth and the second one was a random mythical bird with an angry look. Then I tackled the cat drawings. One is of a cat sleeping and the other is a cat from the back side.

365 Days of Art – A Photo Study

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 25

In Carla Sonheim’s year-long on-line class the prompt today was to take 11 photos of the same object. My granddaughter and I decided to should use Lucy, their basset hound, as my subject. This is a slight departure from the drawings and paintings that I do but I do consider photography an art form as well.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Letter W – Needs to Start With W and Have Two Vowels

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….thanks to Cee for another interesting Fun Foto Challenge

Winter

Weird and Wonderful World of Guillermos del Toro

White

Wheels

Roda’s Critter Connection – January 15, 2018

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Roda for hosting Critter Connections

This is my pet budgie that I’ve had for at least nine years. He was a class pet. The kids named him Snowball. Last summer his partner, Shadow, who I adopted at the time passed away. She was a feisty bird who fought off Snowball’s advances all those years. I didn’t relish having baby birds, so I made sure that there was never a box or any kind of nesting material in the cage.

Snowball is beginning to show his age. I’ve never owned budgies that lived this long. Most of them, if they died naturally only made it to six or seven years. The guy in the pet store told me that they could live to be 10 years old.

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Wordless Wednesday – January 10, 2018

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WPC – Favourite Action Shots for 2017

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Mama Cormier

….I promise that these are the last of my favourites for 2017

Playing with a telephoto lens is new for me and this year I loved experimenting with my new toy. One of the things that I enjoyed doing was trying to catch action shots. I found it tricky timing the shot. So often I would take the shot too early or too late and only get part of the subject or none of it in the photo. Here are two shots that I’m particularly fond of. I’m sure they are far from perfect but it’s a work in progress.

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