New Year's Eve in Savannah, GA

It's New Year's Eve and I'm settled into the Best Western here in Savannah, GA.  I'm gonna get myself a little dinner, watch a little TV, and then spend the rest of the evening relaxing.  Tomorrow I am going to walk to the Cracker Barrel for breakfast, and then spend the day finishing my hawk.  I have a buyer for it but I have to figure out how much to charge for it.  I wish I had someone to talk to about it who knows about what to charge.  I am a little clueless as to what type of price to put on it.  I want to sell it, but I don't want to just give it away.  I have put many hours into it.  It will be hard to part with it.  I think I will have some prints made of it to sell too.  I also am reading up on copyrights too... I want to copyright my work. 

I also have to get started on the owls that I am going to teach next summer.  They are done in watercolor pencil.  Quite a different technique than what I'm used to but I'm up to a challenge.

Red Tail Hawk in colored Pencil

I have been working most of the day and part of yesterday on my red-tailed hawk that I am doing with Faber-Castel Polychromos colored pencil.  I started this last year in my colored pencil class in college (which was a waste of my time and money as my instructor didn't know much at all about the medium), but I was determined to rework it, make it more pronounced.  When I did it for my class I didn't lay down enough layers on it to bring out all the color and value of the feathers, but I spent yesterday on the head and wings and today on the breast and glove. Unfortunately my hands hurt so much that I can hold the pencil much more, so I will stop for the day and work on the legs and feet an the rest of the glove tomorrow after I get in from work.  I've taken some pictures on my phone and will post them just as soon as I figure out how.  I will spend some time figuring that out after I have a little supper.  I think I will walk up the street to the IHOP.  I haven't eaten there for quite a while, and haven't eaten out since I've been here (except that burger from Hardee's the other day that made my fingers swell from all the msg, preservatives, salt and chemicals in it).  I'm really trying to get totally away from all those processed foods out there, and all that fast food that is really not good for me.  Until later.....