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This is my newest project: rendering this building for a magazine.

What a terrible photo! Its distorted, the very tip top is cut off, and its snowing!!! This is typical of what I get to work from. (No offense to my nice art director who has to go out on site in the middle of his day and snap some photos for me ~ I know its not easy!) But you can see that these are not fancy pictures taken with a tripod and nice lighting, and I have absolutely no control over this part of the project. I just have to do the best I can with what they give me.

I've actually rendered this building before when it was called something else, but I'd forgotten until I saw the pictures (yes, there's more than one picture, and this one is the best, believe it or not). Even though I guess I could just try to Photoshop the new signage over the old illustration, I prefer to do a fresh piece.

So stay tuned, I'll blog it as I go along here.

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In other news, Wendell the kitty should be coming home from the kitty hospital later today. He's been there 3 days with a urinary catheter and IV and has been completely miserable, poor little guy. I visited him every day (twice yesterday) and tried to cheer him up, but it didn't help too much. I just can't wait to get him home where I'm hoping he'll recover quickly.

If you're in the Sacramento area and need a top notch place to take your dog or cat, go to VCA. They are AMAZINGly wonderful, have 24 hour emergency care, and are just so darned nice to your pet while he or she is there. I can't say enough nice things about it.

And I have a new one. A ratty looking, very sweet tomcat who's adopted us. Next week he goes in to get snipped and poked with vaccines. He's so new I don't even have a name for him yet! Sometimes they're easy to name, sometimes not, you know? This one's eluding me a bit. I walk around the house going "hey Bartholomew (no), hey Samuel (no), hey Degas (NO)...". It takes about 1,000 tries and one will finally 'fit'. Wendell took a while, but once I hit on that one, it really stuck. We'll see!

Crazy Cat Lady signing off for now... Read the rest of this post

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