Cartoons meet real life...

So the other day I was walking home from work and I laughed out loud at this bird.... so I am going to describe it to you, and you can enjoy the cartoon moment I had..

So I was walking through the medical center. There is a ton of construction going on in the med center and i was walking past the construction zone. so it was one of those bright orange 'chain link' fences that have 4 ft metal stakes that weave through the bright orange hard plastic to keep the fence up, you know what I'm describing? Anyways, to make the metal stakes less dangerous they capped them with a bright orange hard plastic cap, that is round, and maybe 1.5-2 inches in diameter.

So I'm walking on the sidewalk and there is a bird in my path.. I'm kinda scary to a bird so it flew out of my path to the plastic cap on the stake... however, the bird couldn't get a grip with its feet on the cap... its feet kept slipping off and it would keep trying, and it was like he was doing a dance trying to get its balance and footing... I found it hilarious. I definitely could see this exact scene in a cartoon. Then finally it couldn't catch its balance and like fell off the cap... teehehe... luckily it has wings, so when it falls, it is able to save itself and ended up finding his footing again on the orange chain link fence thing... anyways, I thought I'd share it with y'all...

oh and I guess I'm more country/texan than I like to admit.. I went to the rodeo 2x in the last 3 weeks, saw someone from Milford, UT, win the saddle bronc riding (and $7500) AND I bought myself a cowboy hat... but I look sexy in it. I think I'll wear it next weekend when I go camping...

OH and my ankle is feeling better and I got to play 30 mins of ultimate frisbee today in the beautiful 75ish/80 weather today... such a beautiful day... love the ultimate frisbee!

AND I'm going to Andrew Bird tonight... I'll tell you how that goes (oh look we went full circle I started off talking about birds and I ended up talking about a Bird ;) ).

First charcoal drawing ever!

This is my first attempt at doing a charcoal sketch. I have done some art, pretty casually before, but i've never used the medium of charcoal before. My sister got me some materials at Christmas. I know it isn't amazing, but I do like how it turned out, esp my hair. I think the next object will be a couple of studies - like spheres with light sources, etc, to get used to the shading and the materials. I was thinking it also might be fun to go to the park and draw a couple of the trees.. The subject matter is basically endless. I'll keep you updated!