More Drawing

Still practicing my drawing of faces. I did this one last night. I hope my carving doesn't suffer, but I think not, my first love is wood.

Drawing

I've been practicing my drawing and did a self portrait from a photo. What do you think, does it look like me?

Nick's

I won a $10 gift certificate to Nick's for being the closest to guessing the score of a Bear game. Nick's is the place in Lemont that serves 1/2# hamburgers. I took Ben, our intern and Stephanie, his wife because they have never been there and I wouldn't go in to Nick's on my own. She had a chili dog and said it was very good, he had a cheeseburger and finished it all. I had a hamburger and no, I didn't finish it.
Tomorrow I am meeting a few folks at the Front Street Cantina for a little birthday party for one of our Church members. Before that is our monthly Cut & Sew group that sews quilts that are given to homeless shelters in Joliet.

Phil's Friends

I went to the ribbon cutting of Phil's Friends new quarters. Phil started in his basement, then moved to a store front and now is in much larger quarters with an office for Phil and cubicles for the staff and tables for volunteers to pack care packages. In case you are not familiar with Phil's Friends, it is a Christ centered ministry started by a young  man who fought cancer twice and won. His group sends out care packages to cancer patients and then follows up with weekly cards. He is now ministering to over 900 people that are suffering from cancer. Their motto is We Bring Hope.

Now I'm off to buy pencils so I can practice drawing portraits.

After Art Class

I'm back home after a 2 hour art class and will show you what I learned. The picture on the left is what I drew before we started, the one on the right is after instructions.



 This is the last picture I drew using a newspaper model. Overall I think I did pretty good and look forward to the Drawing 101 class the Maggie Poplowski is doing in February. That will be a 3 session class.



Art Class

I'm taking an art  class today at the Lemont Center for the Arts. It is teaching portrait drawing, which I think will help me in my carving.

Tomorrow, I plan on going to Phil's Friends new opening of  much larger quarters. This way I can get rid of the fuzzy socks I bought before Christmas at a great price. They use these socks in their care packages.

The weather continues to be nice and sunny. Snow stay away, I haven't fretted about my driveway so far this winter.

A Good Day

I saw my Oncologist yesterday and he said everything looks good to keep up the good work. I don't know if he realizes, that I have nothing to do with my health, it's all in God's hands. So thank you God for keeping me healthy this past year.
Today is another nice sunshiny day, a little chilly but nice. I think we all or most of us can appreciate this weather.  Sorry snow bunnies.