Auntie Chauntie
My friend Chaunte was a year behind me in the photo program. She is an incredibly talented artist in pretty much every capacity. She’s from Vegas too! Someday when she comes for a visit I’m hoping to catch her and go on an adventure.
Anyway, the point is she started doing portraits of her friends that sent her pictures of themselves. Being the narcissist that I am I sent her one too.
Beautiful photograph by Jessica 
turned into beautiful drawing by Chaunte.
I’m lucky to know so many gifted people.
A Lovely Chat
While sickly I had the lovely pleasure of video chatting with Amy Lee and her stud Warren G (“I don’t feel I need to explain my art to you Warren.“) Thankfully, I had showered that day so I wasn’t looking too grotesque. I tell you, the flu will take it out of you. Now I’m just fighting a cold. I lost my voice over the weekend and thoroughly alarmed my mother by how terrible I sounded. Soon I know I’ll be right as rain.
Thanks for the chat Amy! I miss you!
Watercolor
Last weekend while Sir Luke was out of town I decided I wanted to water color. I’ve never really tried to do anything like this but I think it worked out okay.
Just goes to show, you never know til you try! What do you think?
Lighting
Same orchids. Same position. Same light source.
Can you feel the difference in the mood. Just by changing my perspective. I love photography.
House Phase II
Back on the 13th Sir Luke and I ventured to see the house. It’s thrilling to see how quickly these things pop up!
Upon examination of the first floor I noticed that the ceilings seemed lower than I thought our requested 9′ should be. Sir Luke was convinced it was indeed 9′ but as we explored upstairs it was apparent that the heights were the same. We immediately called our sales associate who was quite hesitant when I called. She had seen the mistake only 20 minutes earlier. Needless to say we were all a little nervous about how the resolution would happen.
The next day we got a call from out superintendent who affirmed that the situation would be rectified and would set us back only two weeks. Unfortunately, they would have to tear down the house and start again…boo. I was a little disheartened because we are hoping to move in before October so we can give our notice to our current landlord. But as luck would have it constructionists are geniuses. What they did was release the second floor from the first and suspend it in air by a crane, rebuild the ground floor and set back on the top! Crazy? YES!
Here is the before and after. It’s hard to tell of the change in the height other that the opening for the front door, which is clearly a foot taller in the right hand photo.
The stair railing was also done incorrectly in the first house but has been corrected as well.
Sir Luke checking out the new heightened ceiling. Clearly 9′.
The best news is that with the accelerated work of the fantastic crew we’re back on the original schedule! Hooray!