Fritz's Life in Boots

I've made a new year resolution to do a drawing in a notebook every day for a year. So far, I've only missed a couple days but have always made up for them. Well a few days ago, I completed the first notebook. Filled every page with a drawing, painting, sketch, and even some notes and thoughts. This has been the first notebook I have ever completed! I always get down to a few pages at the end and never finish it. Not this year!  Here is my completed notebook!!  Here are just a few of my favorite drawings. I am so excited that I've started a new notebook. The first notebook, I learned, was great for pen and ink, not so much for pencil and watercolor. This new book has the potential to be better for all different medias. I'm hoping it will work well with watercolor for I am trying my best to get better at it.  All in all, this is a great learning experience for me. Learning about what media works well on what paper, what media I like using best, learning all of the differ

I am involved with an international art exchange sponsored by Women & Creativity (www.womenandcreativity.org). This is the second year that I have participated and it is amazingly fun! Basically what happens is you are sent 10 small cards on which you do what ever you want: art, poetry, etc... Then you send them back and once all of the participants have returned their cards, they are mixed up and 10 cards from other artists are sent to you. So, in exchange for your 10 cards, you receive a card from 10 different people. This year, I decided to do ink designs on my cards. With a retro-feel, these cards were inspired by a pen and ink artist that I follow in Tumbler. Also, Women & Creativity did something a little different this year. They had a deadline to return your cards and if you made it before this deadline, they would choose a card or two to display in two different pop-up art shows in Albuquerque, NM. I missed going to the first one but I was able to see the secon

I've been reading a book I found at a used book store about mixing your own colors and that there are no true primary colors. I've been doing my own experimenting with it and I've found that what is said in the book is true so far! Michael Wilcox talks about how you can choose different colors, lets just go with the title, different blues and yellows and get a wide variety of greens!  Here is the color wheel that I made with the following watercolors: Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue, Cadmium Red Light Hue, and Cerulean Blue Hue. As you can see, the greens are really bright and have a beautiful variety. The oranges are pretty, but don't have the variety like the greens do. And the violets/purples are all pretty much the same. When you use different blues and reds, you can get different purples.  Here, I did a study with the same blue and three different reds just to show that you can get a huge range of different purples when mixing different primaries.  I

Wow, it's been way too long since I've posted anything!! There has been so much that has happened. First of all, let me just start by sharing my latest adventure. I am a cowboy action shooter, have been for a while now. I shot my second national championship for Cowboy Action this year and my first for Wild Bunch Action Shooting. I placed very well. I took 3rd place in Lady's Frontier Cartridge in Cowboy and I took 2nd in Lady Modern in Wild Bunch. I was so close to winning it all! Which, on the other hand, my Honey did! He won Wild Bunch overall this year! I couldn't be more proud! He is my world and I have a blast shooting with him! I am just so modest that I don't like talking about how well I did. Honey keeps letting me know how well I did and tells me that I can win this over all! I just blush and brush it off like it's no big deal. I am so afraid that it will all go to my head and that it will hurt my performance. I am not a competitive person. I never h

I can't stand it when a guy just stops talking to me. No explanation, no go to hell, not a single word. Why do guys do this? Don't they know girls go psycho when they ignore them? Things were going so good, well, at least I thought they were. We were just chatting it up on skype, laughing and having a good talk, then his connection cuts out. And I haven't heard from him sense. Did I say something wrong? Did I make a funny face you didn't like? Who knows. It just drives me crazy that I didn't/haven't gotten any explanation why.  Oh well. I guess God was trying to intervene. I guess he isn't right for me. There must be someone else out there that is right for me. I just have to put my faith in God that He will bring us together when the time is right.  Good night all, trust in the little "accidents" that happen in your life, they might be saving you from something harmful and steering you in a better direction.  <3 Fritz  

We have a German Shepherd named Laverne.  She is a silver sable and is just awesome.  Laverne is huge.  She loves to talk to you and walk between your legs.  She also loves to be on top of anything and everything.  I can't count how many times I've gone into the back yard to find her on top of the table.  We also have a shepherd mix named Shirley.... Shirley loves her Laverne.  She cries and freaks out whenever her and Laverne are separated. Laverne hasn't ever really walked well.  We have taken her to the vet many times and also have had a massage therapist come out many times to help her.  They all said that she was just still growing and probably pulled a muscle digging or playing with Shirley.  A few weeks ago I noticed that she was starting to cross her back legs when she walks.  In German Shepherds, this is a sure sign of hip dysplasia.  Now,  we have had other German Shepherds that we have lost at an early age because of hip dysplasia.  I have a very bad feeling tha