Who let those babies in here???

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Oh… wait… nobody let them in here… I went over to where they live…  at my friend’s house… to babysit the two-month-or-so-old twin boys.

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And what am I worried about? Babies are my people!

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Babies love me… and so do dogs, cats, horses, and old ladies, in case you were wondering. I got this!

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Now, you may get suspicious, looking at these pictures, because the babies look so happy and relaxed. Well, here’s the thing… (hello, thing, I thought you might turn up in this post)…

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The boys were totally relaxed, after I got them both fed and changed…

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They were totally relaxed and happy for about twenty minutes…

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After that, I was too busy to take anymore pictures. HA! I forgot how much work babies are.

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I was sort of hoping my little buddy, Olivia, would stay home and help me, but she went to her aunt’s wedding rehearsal dinner with her parents… which explains the pretty dress, I suppose.

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But I need to borrow Olivia soon. I miss taking her to the zoo. We have fun together. Because two-year-olds are my people too! And my youngest daughter is in college now… sniff… stupid allergies…

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What happens when you take a page from a children’s book you wrote, and add a little magic… part 1…

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That’s what happens… or maybe this…

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Even though it started out more like this…

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Which was already pretty magical, if you ask me.

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Well, that’s sort of cool… what the heck is it, exactly?

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That is what happens when I take this page from a children’s book I wrote and illustrated…

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(available over there—-> in my sidebar)…

and work some of my magic on it.

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Because magic is cool!

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Wiggly babies!!! More on this later…

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Just for the heck of it… part 5…

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What is that? Don’t you worry your pretty little head about it, that’s what it is.

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Just for the heck of it… part 4…

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Okay, one more… because who among us hasn’t ever wanted to take the cover of a children’s book they wrote and illustrated, and make it do something magical?

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Just for the heck of it… part 3…

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No, I’m not explaining it all again… read the previous posts…

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Just for the heck of it… part 2…

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Okay, I am still working on a bunch of stuff… editing my princess novel and working on the cover art, editing the fourth book in my action/humor science fiction series and working on the cover for that, helping my older daughter try to make a digital media presence for my books, so I can sell more, and trying to colorize that photo of Abraham Lincoln.

While I am doing those things, you still have to have stuff to look at. So I am taking some of the art from my children’s books, and working some digital magic on them.

I wish I could make the actual book pages do this stuff.

Here is the cover with no magic… or just my regular artistic magic…

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Just for the heck of it…

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I am working on a few other things, but while you wait, this is what happens when I work a little magic on one of the pages from my children’s book; The Lonely Little Wizard.

Here is what it looked like with slightly less magic…

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Living color… part 3…

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Seated portrait of President Abraham Lincoln. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/US Army Signal Corps/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Okay, I know, it isn’t working out so good, my attempt to colorize a picture of Abe. That is where I left off yesterday, Here is where I ended up today…

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I lightened up the whole thing. I added a few more layers of new browns. I added a little color to the eyes. But the more color I add to his face, the weirder he looks. Hey, that is the thing about art. It only sucks if you give up before it is finished. And I am not giving up yet!

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