Fritz's Life in Boots

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...