Wednesday Was Wonderful (WWW)

Wednesday was wonderful - I was happily bouncing off the walls by the end of the day. I had a long list of errands - everything from picking up a ream of paper to grocery shopping and I accomplished all of it in a timely manner. But the major work I had on my agenda were the final two pictures for CB's Big Bang story.

I'm not fond of shopping and am the Queen of getting out
of stores in record time. Watch out ahead! I'm driving
a grocery cart!

I knew what I wanted to do. I had a re-do for her on one picture where she wanted different coloring. Although I tried to change it in Photoshop, it just wasn't working for me so I spent an hour or so on Sunday redrawing it from scratch and did the coloring yesterday. My happy was my Erestor, though. I was nervous about him - I was coloring him from a photograph that I fell in love with but pastels are still a new media for me and I was nervous about how well I could pull this off.

Painting from a photograph requires blending colors. I was really
nervous about how well it would work out.

He is BEAUTIFUL! I am so very happy! CB may not like the picture or my interpretation of him, but I am delighted with the color work and immediately started blocking out a picture I've had in my head of Feanor and Nerdanel. I worked on that for a little bit and have a much better idea of how I want to block it out. Maybe next week for that. I also finished some beta work for my friend in Germany that I really owed her for a couple of weeks now (bad me!). Now it's back to her before it returns to me for a second read-through.

I love fresh fruit. My fridge has kiwis, grapes and strawberries for munchies right now.

My refrigerator is stuffed full of wonderful fruit - I went a little crazy at the grocer yesterday. I have lots and lots of green and red grapes, two pounds of strawberries, carrots and celery and a bag of oranges is on my counter. I don't think I'll starve between now and next week.

And finally, because I really can't let it slide without comment, the murmur about yesterday's Supreme Court case (#12-307 if you're looking for the transcript) seems quite positive for the abolition of the Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA penalizes legal marriages between same-sex partners because it specifies that marriage is only legitimate between one man and one woman. Of the two cases that the Supreme Court heard this week that dealt with gay marriage, I think this case has a stronger platform and a greater chance of success. I think that the justices will decide that Prop 8 could still be altered via an amendment to the California constitution, but the DOMA is a federal law and falls more into their jurisdictional umbrella. I downloaded the transcript but haven't had a chance to read it yet. I'll catch up on it today.