I set up a shop for myself on Cafe Press – Debra Bailey’s Art & Nature Creations. That way I can sell prints, T-shirts, calendars, mugs, and baby clothes etc. that has my art work on it. Fine, no problem. BUT, I selected one of my photos and want to put a caption on it. Photoshop is fighting me from putting a caption on my picture and Cafe Press doesn’t appear to offer a way to do it. HELP!!!!! I got the picture up there just fine. But HOW DO I GET THE LITTLE GUY TO SPEAK?
(Trademark pending)
Okay. It’s been over a year since I took a “sabbatical” from my blog. In that time I’ve taken a break from writing projects too. The reason? I re-discovered my love for oil painting, and decided to spend some quality time focused full time on that. In the coming year, I’ll have more info available and will be connecting this blog with my website where my art is on display/sale. For now I’m trying to solve the intricacies of how to get all these sites to talk to each other. Stay tuned.
Oh, if you’d like to see what’s up with my art website, just check out:
Here’s one I just loved doing. Between the vibrancy of the colors of the mahi mahi, and the fact I just let loose with several different kinds of blue, from Prussian blue to Cerulean, Ultramarine to Phthalo….warms and colds, it was fun to just go with it. And then of course, there’s the sea spray…..perhaps that’s the most fun of all. 🙂
As mentioned, I’ve been painting and have 3 new ones done and a 4th almost completed. For a start, here’s one of them I don’t believe I’ve posted yet….Sea Nettles. While I love to do detail work, with my sea creature paintings, I’ve been leaning more toward “impressionistic.” So here’s the first!
It’s not as silly as it sounds, by the way. The dolphins apparently execute a considerable amount of precision to create these bubble rings. In fact, instead of plain old bubbles that would just rise to the surface, these cylindrical rings stay under the surface and allow the dolphins to push them around, stretch them, play with them.
The reporter noted that researchers were speculating as to why more female dolphins do this than males…..I can just hear the male/female jokes coming on that one…. 🙂 Anyway, enjoy!
Okay people. A while back I mentioned that for fun, my husband and I decided to do one of those Uncle Milton Ant Farms again, you know, see how “big kids” like it. When the ant farm got here from Amazon a few weeks ago, I sent in the coupon for the ants. Of course, it being Feb/Mar…the ants aren’t always shipped right away. Well, today’s email held this little missive, so……arrival of ants, is imminent, or as the mails notes: “the ants are in transit!”
From the email:
Hello.
Thank you for your order of ants from Uncle Milton Industries. We are emailing to inform you that the ants have left our facility and are making their way to your location as we speak! Please try to limit the amount of time the ants spend in transit by checking your mailbox everyday.
Thank you for choosing Uncle Milton Industries.
Okay….the softie in me couldn’t stand it anymore. Admiral Byrd all alone in the tank for the last couple months. I’d expected he was on his last legs, so to speak, but he actually molted, came out bigger, stronger and has been out in the tank waving his claw….to no one in particular since he was now all alone.
Today I decided that even if he died tomorrow, he deserved company and I was tired of viewing this as a death watch instead of life. So today I went out and bought three female fiddlers and added them to the tank. They’re small…miniature compared to him….hopefully they’ll survive, but they were the biggest ones I could find. PetsMart’s – forget it. Tiny and you just couldn’t find anybody to wait on you to get them. I went to Pet Supermarket and the kid there was most helpful and dug out the three largest females in the tank for me. I had tried to go back to Fish Pros….but their storefront was empty and no one answered the phone. Alas, they may be out of business.
So, since I can’t tell the three ladies apart, at least not yet, I have named them “en masse” and call them, The Three Muses. So…..we shall see how the “introductions” go……
“Squid have excellent eyesight, a keen sense of smell, and the ability to squirt jets of dark ink that mask their escape. But these skills provide little protection against toothed whales, like the sperm whale, which hunt them ruthlessly and easily.”
Apparently sperm whales consume more squid that all the squid captured by man. The article has a bit of myth, mystery, controversy and science. So enjoy!
My husband pointed this article out to me, and the fish is just great. I love the guy. So sharing a “psychedelic fish” with you all!
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2009-02-26-psychedelic-fish_N.htm
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