So Sensitive

Posted on May 13, 2016 by treshabarger

Story #13 for Story A Day Challenge May 2016 as well as my Friday Fictioneer Challenge entry.

Photo by C E Ayr

So Sensitive

“Look, little brother is blue again.”

“What’s wrong this time?”

“He thinks the Broadway Building is looking down at him.”

“He is looking down at him. We are all looking down at him. We’re tall and slender and he’s short and fat.”

“Well, he better get used to it. We’re not going anywhere.”

“Give him a break. He didn’t choose his architect any more than we chose ours. He’ll come around.”

“He’s already round. Get it? Get it?” [Snicker]

“Besides, he can’t help it that they made him glow.”

“All this touchy-feely stuff, bah! These youngsters are just so sensitive.”
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.

For a special treat, here is the story by the photographer, C. E. Ayr, also a Friday Fictioneer writer.
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Blue & White House, Sketch 146

Posted on June 24, 2015 by treshabarger

I ran out of time on this sketch, while I was standing there. I was in a parking lot and people were lined up to get a space. Oh, the pressure. I decided not to finish it from the photo. I don’t know what I would have done if I had wanted to be an architect way back when. Learn how to draw by using a ruler, or software, these days.

Sketch 146: Blue & White House

Gazebo, Sketch 139

Posted on June 17, 2015 by treshabarger

I’m working on not being so agonizingly slow when I sketch. I had less than 10 minutes available for this sketch, and I decided to try it. I took seven minutes and even managed to get in some erasing. I didn’t leave enough room for the top of the gazebo in either attempt, though.

It’s not only the sketching where I want to increase my skill level, but the “seeing.” If I can’t “see” it, I can’t sketch it: angles, shadows, proportions, for example. I was standing up while sketching, which is also something new for me. I think I want a larger sketch pad.

Sketch 139: Gazebo in Kyle, Texas

Sunday in La Grange

Posted on June 2, 2015 by treshabarger

I traveled to La Grange for my quarterly visit to the Quilt Museum. No photographs are allowed in the museum, so afterwards I wandered around downtown for a bit with my camera.