Catchy Title eh ?

haha sorry .. Couldn't think of anything better.

I was just thinking .. I do have some artist friends that have already hooked up with me on facebook. No No ... not that kind of hook up .. sheesh ...

But yeah if anyone's interested Just add me to your friend list. Look for John Houle .. You'll recognize my ugly mug .. same as it is here

As for art ..

I'm working ... sporadically on a new duckstamp painting ...

as well as a dog portrait for a friend, along with some new ACEOs

Trouble being there's so much else I want to work on or try that It's killing my motivation to work on things that have a deadline .. don't you hate it when that happens ?

Man ...

Last journal at the beginning of January ... What a slacker huh ?

5 months ... of practically no art. I've daubled a bit but still have things that are unfinished.

Last night I started this year's habitat stamp painting. Well by started I tranfered my sketch to the canvas which I had removed from the stretchers. The image sized required is an odd one so I need to cut down the stretchers and re-stretch the canvas before I start painting it.

I have a couple of well needed commissions to do as well since I wasn't working from the beginning of December until the beginning of April. I've fallen pretty deeply in debt and need to start clawing my way back out of it.

So yeah ... that and other things in my life have let my art fall a bit to the wayside. I'm starting to get back into it. Not easy with summer kind of here and the desire to be outside and get at some projects that can only be done in the warm weather.

Hopefully I'll be uploading some new work soon.

Thank to everyone who's kept me on your watch list. I'm gratefull.

John

Anyone else having any trouble ?

I'm trying to get a new deviation up but it keeps giving me the error ... Unable to upload file to the file server.

Bummer ....

( EDIT ) Got it ... I think it was my firewall stopping it ...

Hey guys,

I'm just finishing up a painting for a competition and realized today that I hadn't thought of a proper title for it yet. I'm shipping it out in two days and need to finish filling out the paperwork before then.

I could just give it a title myself but I figured I'd have a little fun and see what you guys would suggest as a title for it.

So if you feel to offer up your ideas, I'm all ears.

The Painting > [link]

Catch you later

Shit ... Note to self. Hitting enter posts the journal if you're in the title field ....

Okay .. Well I haven't been around. Again ... Seems life's wayyyyy too busy these days.

and it feels like i'm never getting anything done .. That fact that Fall's rapidly approaching isn't helping. i'm scrambling to get last minute outdoor chores down before Winter rears it's ugly head.

I finished one painting ... or rather just don't feel to add any more to it. I took a few pics at noontime I'll see if any are good enough to post. If not I'll take new ones this week.

On another note I bought the Spiderwick Chronicles last weekend and watched it a couple times this weekend.

Found out something interesting about the house they used in it as well.

Check out these photos in my scraps to see what I mean.

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I have another painting that I'm almost finished as well ... I don't have much choice .. It needs to be done for the end of the month. So I'll upload that as soon as I can .. Then other than a couple of commissions I'll finish the first drawing of my new business venture and continue to add more as I go along.

Catch you all later.

John