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A sketch of one of the massive Caterpillar loaders for sale a couple of blocks from my office. While I was sketching, I realized that it needed color, but that hitting it with watercolor would buckle the paper in my sketchbook, so I gave my highlighter pen a shot.
Pen and ink with highlighter pen.
Journaling reads:
It is amazing how calming the color of water and sky can be...These blue chairs spoke relaxation to us.Not a care in the world as we laid on our chairs. Our biggest concern was when the next time to eat was and make sure we didn't get sun burnt. All other concerns were left at home...
Loading salt at the Maryland State Highway Administration's Fairland Shop on December 10, 2013. Please visit our official Facebook page for more storm photos.
A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, digger, or colloquially shortened to backhoe, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor fitted with a shovel/bucket on the front and a small backhoe on the back. Due to its (relatively) small size and versatility, backhoe loaders are very common in urban engineering and small construction projects (such as building a small house, fixing urban roads, etc.).
Before the time when each rancher had his own stock trailer, cattle were sent to market in large semi-trucks. These old wooden shutes, built high above the ground to accomadate the height of the large trucks was a common site along the roads.
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These are Walthers HO scale Loading Platform kits that I modified, detailed and weathered. Not the easiest or very fun kits to build but they turned out OK.
I found the time to do the prompt!
Journalling: I have always and will always be a reader. But certainly a lot has changed now in my lifetime of reading. I read more online. I buy more of my books online. I belong to 3 libraries and have left behind 4 (plus the school ones). I read more books to the kids that I do to myself. I have apps and websites to help me catalog my collection and reading desires. I still like the same authors but my list of favourites gets longer most months. I read more Fiction for adults than ever before- lots of crime stuff surprisingly. My favourite store is Crow Books. I still make my own books only more professionally. I have 7 full book shelves in my house. But I still have a hard time which books I am happy to swap at the Book Swap Shop. I don’t have as much time to read but as always my sidetable is as overflowing with books as ever.
Two Calvin & Hobbes pages in one LOAD? Is it possible I'm a wee bit obsessed? :)
journaling:
Ah, my childhood. The days of the comics section in the newspaper. They were, of course, the best part of the paper. (Meanwhile, my kids are asking: what's a comic strip? You mean like webcomics? But what's a newspaper?) Every day - rows of black and white strips, and then on Sundays, big color ones.
One day, while living in Berlin, we discovered a new strip in the military paper, by Bill Watterson, called
Calvin and Hobbes. (It's even possible that it was when it first came out, or close to it.) I don't remember the first strip we ever read, except that we liked it and wanted to read more.
I do remember when we first read this Sunday strip, the bedbug one. I remember how hard we laughed, doubled over helplessly (because of course, we said, "Don't let the bedbugs bite" all the time at bedtime). I remember Dad trying to explain the Kafka joke at the beginning. Dad cut it out of the paper and put it up on the frig. We read Calvin and Hobbes religiously after that, and bought every collection book we could find. Chris and I would act out scenes from the strips, or just sit together with the books, reading them aloud, taking turns with the parts.
Years later, in college, I made my dad a Father's Day card by going to the library and photocopying all the strips I could find where Calvin gives his dad a hard time (and sometimes the other way around) and pasting them into a giant card. There are still various "Calvinisms" in our family banter, exchanges like, "What do you say?" followed by, "Sounds like a barge coming through!" or "While I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony."
The bedbug strip stayed up on the frig for years and years, through at least six moves, getting more yellowed and tattered as time passed. It never failed to bring a smile to my face. It has since disintegrated, no doubt - I think it's time to put up a new copy.
Supplies:
font: Typical Writer, Calvin and Hobbes
A U.S. Marine with India Battery, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, practices loading ordnance onto an MV-22B Osprey aboard the USS Essex (LDH 2) during Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) aboard Naval Base San Diego March 17, 2015. The Marines must work together to properly align the ATV with the ramp to successfully load on the ordnance - COMPTUEX is designed to integrate and train the PHIBRON and ship staff as they prepare for deployment later this spring. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Elize McKelvey/Released)
Unloading a hold full of Snow Crab. For those familiar with Deadliest Catch, this would be Opilea. I love trying to capture the culture of the fishermen in Nova Scotia any time I can.
Prompt: Smell:
This about the scent of my grandmother's Jergen's Lotion.
Credit: Mother's Day by Couric Designs from digitalscrapbookpages.com
Idea from yesterday's prompt...
We found an old typewriter in the attic and my daughter typed some sweet little notes. I can add more notes as they come.
Bakers mix, roll and bake bread at La Conchita bakery in Texcoco, Mexico. The bakery sells about 2,000 rolls per day, according to one employee.
Mike Listman/CIMMYT
www,cimmyt.org
Smoke is our resident neighborhood - I believe feral - cat; s/he's been around easily since Fall, 2009. We're convinced that s/he has many eating places but definitely knows there's a good meal to be had here. S/he's been fixed - a neighbor had that done. We hadn't seen her since the PV - Polar Vortex - but today, s/he showed up....temps: low 50s...and a meal was to be had!
Waiting at the side of the highway in Edzo. Lots of pilot trucks to warn everyone of the 25' wide load!
Another one of our favourite cakes, probably because my son is made about Digger Loaders and so is Andrew, who loved his cake!
Loriane Gold Mine on 22 November 1998.
19D no 3369 busy loading up for her second run of the afternoon shift.
Free State, South Africa
United States Military Academy at West Point Cadets take part in hot load training at Landing Zone Vulture July 20, 2014. Hot load training gives the cadets an opportunity to load and unload a fully functioning UH-60 Blackhawk with full combat gear. (US Army photo by Spc. Frank Cagnina)
I did set the timer with this one for 30 minutes, the journaling tag set me back a few minutes, though. I love to add words, but feel that they often get in the way of my design. Which is why I love hidden journaling. I tucked it right up there at the top with that little ribbony tag sticking out!
Ella's 6 weeks of sketches challenge helped out with my design! thanks Ella! this is quite a turn on the original sketch but if you squeeze your eyes, you'll see it!
feels really good to use this BG paper. Been in my stash WAY too long!
thanks for looking!
The paint drops were inspired by Julie Fei-Fan Blazer. I love her blog and have been sneaking peeks all day.
In order to figure out how to get the idea I had in my head (white space + tiny picture) I browesed twopeas until I found this: www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/248426-vee/167118...
I am definitely a line it up straight girl!! i love my centering ruler :) so I went with the tilt....be it ever so slight!!
this came together pretty easy using the Studio Calico sunday sketch by Maggie Holmes...
United States Military Academy at West Point Cadets take part in hot load training at Landing Zone Vulture July 20, 2014. Hot load training gives the cadets an opportunity to load and unload a fully functioning UH-60 Blackhawk with full combat gear. (US Army photo by Spc. Frank Cagnina)
Southbound iron ore concentrate loads run down the main at Charles siding on the Chemin De Fer Cartier, an isolated and neglected paradise of railroading.
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Charles Siding, Chemin de fer Cartier
Réserve faunique de Port-Cartier-Sept-Îles.
Lac-Walker, Quebec
Monday, September 19, 2016
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