Day 70 of 365

Hands are hard, yo!

Day 69 of 365

Different day, different hand- same project. Today was rough.

Day 68 of 365

I wish I didn't have such a thing about not revealing things that I have not been authorized to... It makes me keep secrets really well, and then I feel like such a TEASE!



Until I get authorization to show what I am working on, this is all you guys get. Sorry!

Day 67 of 365 (Art post!)

Okay, still working. Just had to get the "political" stuff out of the way first.



Yup- I am back to drawin' hands... HAHAHA!

Day 27 of 365

See? Proof I still animate!

Ruth_penciltest from Amanda Candler on Vimeo.

Day 12 of 365

Been animating a test. It's short- but I am at least drawing every day.

Day 9 of 365

Today is one year, at - actually right about this time- I got a phone call from my dad. He led up to what he was going to say in such a way that I went outside.

Nana had died.

Normally, I am not one to harp on people who have passed away. I don't understand why people tattoo loved ones with their date of death on their bodies, make memorial stickers and put them on their vehicles, or make a t-shirt with the loved one's death information on it. That kind of grieving or coping just makes no sense to me. Tattoos of things that remind you of your loved ones, I get. I've painted cardinals on Christmas cards in memory of my Pawpaw. I've bought polar bear Christmas cards for my Grandpa Pete. I've loved prisms and talked to passing milkweed seeds for my Grandma Lee. It is through my own memory though, that I remember the day they passed away. Every holiday from Thanksgiving to, formerly Christmas, now my birthday has been touched by the loss of some of my most loved family. Day after Thanksgiving, I lost Pawpaw. Two days before Christmas, I lost Grandma Lee. Five days before my birthday, I lost Nana. I hate the holidays for this reason. But I miss them so much.

So I guess the fact that I spent today animating is now in honor of them. Hug a loved one today.