♫ ♪ I GOT THEM, I GOT THEM ........

Yipee!  My pencils arrived!

So excited that they have finally arrived - mind you it only took a week ... lol.

Anyway, I ripped open the package then lovingly rubbed and tickled them then got down to the nitty gritty of sharpening 120 pencils.

They looked so rich and vibrant and they felt wonderful, soft and creamy to use.

So of course I had to take them on a test drive.  Decided to draw 3 pelicans and then an aboriginal face to just see what I could do with them and I was relatively pleased with the results.

The only downfall was that I couldn't do dark over light very well and I wanted the face to have a beard full of light grey hair.  Did consider painting the hairs on after with some white/grey gouache but in the end I left it.

Will think about whether to run with the gouache after I leave it for a week and look again with fresh eyes.

Apart from that I was really really REALLY happy with them.

Now I will so some serious learning to see just what I can achieve with them.  I don;t think they will ever replace my first love of watercolour but they certainly work better for me than my recent experiments with soft pastels (a total failure) and oil pastels (reasonable success).

So you want to see my efforts?   Rotfl.......

"The Three Musketeers"

"Elder"

Feeling better too - Abi is much better; my worry and stress from health scare gone; talked with W; my kids are okay - so trying to put all the sh*t from the last few months aside then I can start to see the glass half full again ... lol.

No sunshine - boy did we get some rain in the last two days - 44mls over weekend it's been so dry so was very welcome but did it have to be so hard?  Luckier than some places - Wollongong has had over 228 mm (over 9") since 9am morning, including 63 mm in the hour to 1 - and there is a severe thunderstorm warning out for them this afternoon!

Been reading up about HAARP and similar installations and I have to admit that it scares me.  Discovered some official sites that admit they are experimenting with weather modification and hinted that they could create seismic events (!).

Nicolas Tesla claimed he could split the earth with his experiments in resonance and this same technology that he invented is used today to locate underground resources like oil and natural gas and help in archaeology.  This is the technology that HAARP and similar installations are based on.

Don't think that this is just in the USA - there are installations all over the world, on every continent including here in Australia.

Given the increase in seismic activity recently and the crazy weather all over the world you really have to wonder if the experiments in weather modification have anything to so with them.

This documentary made in 97 is very interesting - and take into account that is was made 14 years ago and the technology has been modified since then.

Of course there are conspiracy theories by the thousands out there about this technology but along with that there are facts the are proven and substantiate like the fact there is weather modification experiments happening.

Anyway, it has certainly given me cause for concern.

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