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wow I suddenly got popular - 4 new followers overnight!  Thanks for the love everybody.

I was pretty ill last night, not sure why, I think it might have been a migraine-type-thing hence the lack of post.

I've entered one of my geckos Ghost into Pets Jubilee's monthly cuteness contest.  Please visit and vote for Ghost by commenting on his photograph.

My parents are back from their holiday so the house is suddenly really busy again.  It's hard to know whether to be grateful for the company or miss the peace and quiet.  Apart from a lot of cleaning prior to my parents' arrival, I painted this greyhound as promised this afternoon, whilst watching InkHeart, which I highly recommend as an exceptional film. 

The anatomy is a little off but this really isn't my area of expertise.   All in all I don't think it came out too badly.  I'm still getting to grips with the acrylics and one of the most challenging things at the moment is the inability to mix the colours on the canvas.  If anybody is interested in buying this canvas I am selling it for the Retired Greyhound Trust, please contact me for details.

. . . It's Friday I'm in love

Although I'm not sure what I'm in love with, my new bookcase is pretty high up the list though.  I can't photograph it for you all yet though because I had to make it up in our hallway and it's too narrow for me to get a shot.  I really enjoyed painting it so I'm now looking for a chest of drawers or a cupboard on freecycle that I can sand down and repaint to match.

I had a friend staying last night, hence the short post but I hope you all liked the otters, they are probably my favourite of all the thousands of photographs I've ever taken.

Here are some very rough preliminary greyhound sketches for you to get a sneek peek of that little project. As I think I mentioned before I'm having some trouble with getting the heads right but I imagine I'll get something more or less right in the end (unless I get really annoyed with it and have to give up first).  

Tomorrow: Undiscovered Artist Feature.