My newest wood-carving project is coming along…

Ha! You can barely see it because it is so natural looking!

I still have a ways to go.

But the colors do help.

I still think it is a pretty good way to recycle an old post.

I don’t know if the photos give a good view of the layers I carved into it, but when the painting is done, it should be cool.

It is all in the details.

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Finally, a potato chip for the ultra-wealthy: A silly commercial from my Pouring My Art Out podcast, done in silly video form for my PMAO blog!

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Because what I really needed was another type of art project to get sucked into…

It started off harmlessly enough. For Christmas, I asked for this cool little engraver pen I kept seeing ads for, and some paint pens. I was going to use them on my wood carving stuff that I already do.

And then I found this nice, big, smooth river rock. And the crack squirrels in my head said: “I wonder if that engraver would work on rocks?”

And they did. And the squirrels wondered if the paint pens would also work. And they also did.

And the next thing I know, I am looking for rocks everywhere I go.

And I am free-handing designs on rocks.

And so it goes, on and on, and now I haven’t even used the engraver or the pens on my wood carvings yet.

So whatever man…

Stupid crack squirrels.

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Always pet a dog in slow motion…

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On behalf of all democrats, I would just like to say:

I am so sorry that we haven’t had time to fix the economy, but we have been so busy grooming your children to be love slaves and pizza toppings. I know you had plans to arm them all, and let them massacre each other, but hey, we won the election… maybe…

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Which one do you feel like today?

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If you look at these three side-by-side pictures of different angles of my latest wood-carving experiment, you could be forgiven if you find yourself wondering; “and you call yourself an artist?”

I do, and the reason that I do is that I know, somehow, that I am going to turn that hot mess into a fantastic vine-covered work of art. And, no, I don’t know how I will do that. The carving is not finished, and that cammo paint job is just the background I will paint over.

Also, I am using up model paints and t-shirt paints that have been in my garage for decades. Win win.

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In other news…

Don’t worry about how handsome I look, but instead wonder why there is a big mirror leaned against the wall in an equipment room.

Cherilyn and Jessica walked right past a bobcat in our front yard.

Our new friend Cooper played hard, and then crashed hard.

I think it might be feeding time.

Yup. The death-stare says it all.

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Another silly and possibly even fake commercial from my podcast, set to an amusing video… and I am sorry about this one too, but I just know you wanted to hear the whole song without my annoying voiceover…

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Another silly and possibly even fake commercial from my podcast, set to an amusing video… and I am sorry about this one…

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