Month: June 2022

I have published a new video on YouTube. I must tell you all that in the first video, I announced a giveaway at the very end of the video. I will extend the giveaway until Tuesday, July 5, 2022, to give everyone a chance. Please watch my first video (or skip to the end) so that you can enter the giveaway and then watch my second video. Thanks!

P.S. With the first video, I was just learning and I used a free video editor on my phone. This time, I have Adobe Premiere Pro and I have been blowing my mind learning it, but it is worth it. I actually spent about eight hours working on this video on Saturday, then the computer froze and I lost it all. Well, I discovered that I didn’t actually lose it, but it was a journey around the interwebs before I found out that I could retrieve it. They say that lifelong learning is good for you … If it doesn’t kill you. LOL! Please let me know how you like it.

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Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. — Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

I have finally decided to pursue a YouTube channel. I have posted my first video.

You know, it is hard to learn some of these things. Editing a video has been a fiasco, thus far. I am learning, but it is an uphill battle. The most difficult thing, though, is hearing and seeing myself on video. LOL! Well, I have decided to grit my teeth and do it. My brother, Ray, told me, years ago, that I should be on YouTube. I told him, “No way! No. Never.” Will I ever learn to stop saying never?

So, I filmed myself drawing a horse. Please give it a look and let me know how it worked for you.

My YouTube Channel: Making Art with Virginia

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In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. — George John Whyte-Melville in Riding Recollections (1878)

This little pitcher came with our new home. I love to collect pitchers, especially little ones. I also love wooden spoons. So, I thought this would make a nifty little drawing. It is 10×12 on grey tinted pastel paper.

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They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.

-- Edward Lear

I am finished. This is oils on a 16×24 MDF panel. This last couple of weeks I just looked at him and mulled him over in my mind. I had to make up a new palette this afternoon, when I finally came to the place where I could work on him again.

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Gypsies have no boundaries. They have primitive, untamed personalities and “that look in their eyes.” — Karl Wiggins