Where in the world is Lucy Roberts?

I am in various places, and have just started (in the last couple days) some new accounts around.

Here are the links where you can find me and one or more aspects of my life:
http://www.magicweaver.com
http://weavingmagic.deviantart.com
Helium: http://www.helium.com/users/edit_show_articles/273372
(Do you like to write and share your knowledge? Join Helium and get paid! If you sign up through my email I would deeply appreciate it. I would love to make a network of article writers. This could be lucrative for both of us. For example:
If I know you are a regular writer for Helium, we can link up and I can sub contract some of my article writing business to you, and pay you up front for the work you do (if I have too much work for me to finish on time).
You get paid by Helium for writing, and I do get a small "finder's fee" from Helium that does not affect your payments.
We both get added exposure. I will link your articles in my blog under "my follower's works".
Here are my specific articles with titles:
How to Learn How to Draw
Painting Tips: Becoming an Equine Artist
Good Books on Learning Paintings
Watching Oil Paint Dry: How Long it Takes
Horse Breed: Belgium Horse
How to Bridle a Horse
How to Treat Rain Rot and Rain Scald in Horses
How to Clicker Train a Horse
I try to write a minimum of one article a day.)
If you like writing, you might want to consider another group I have joined, Freelance Home Writers: http://www.freelancehomewriters.com. (I don't get anything for the referal, but you might, be interested in the opportunity.)
Today: http://magicweaver.today.com
(Get paid for blogging about what you care about - anything at all! Sign up using: http://www.today.com/ctr.cgi?idx_mem=17712&mode=vip. I get $5.00 per sign up (you can too when you refer someone) and I am shooting for the $250 bonus per month by getting the most referals. The rates you make on Today.com are varying based on traffic and quality, but any $ is good money right?)
Project Payday: http://www.projectpayday.com/go/2041455
(Project Payday is a unique set up. They don't promise unreasonable amounts of money, but you do have control over the amount you make. Go ahead and put in your email address, and they will send you more information. Your information is kept protected, and I get $1.50, regardless of whether you actually take an account or not.)

Updates:

Well, here we are at the end of the month, and I am getting ready to do a massive art upload in a few days. I have been very busy working on things to sell. I would like to first write a post about some some things I have been doing.

I have finally finished the monkeys necklace. Hard to believe, but it is true! It is finally done! You can't believe how ecstatic I am over this. I am very proud of how it looks and look forward to sharing it with you.

I have been writing several articles on Helium of late. Don't know what Helium is? It's a great place where you can share your knowledge, and get paid to do so. You won't get rich doing it, but it is a nice little supplement to your regular income, and you can write about things you know! Who doesn't want to show the world how smart they are!

I am finishing up all 4 seasons Carousel Horses that I have been talking about. They will be included in all the other posts.

Today I intend to design the ACEO playing cards for hearts 2-10.

I am just about finished with the Herald of Spring piece. It took a while to decide how to make it attach to a chain, but I am happy with the decision I have made, I just need to "make" it.

If anything interests you to buy, please let me know via email or comment here. I accept payments via paypal, as well as through the mail via check, cashier's check, or money order.

I look forward to sharing these works with you!

Great News (for me)!!!

I am really excited. Sometimes it's te simple pleasures that can do that to us, right? Well, I have been on a new "diet", which really isn't a diet, it's just more about changing the combinations I eat foods in, and I have lost 11 lbs in 1 week! I am ecstatic! I realize, this isn't real fat loss yet, but instead lots of water loss (mainly because I am not much of a water drinker, but will drink it sometimes, but now I am drinking more water than I ever thought possible which is allowing my body to release the water it's been holding on to because it knows it's going to get more shortly).

I can't believe it. I really do feel better too. More energy (though I sometimes get very mild headaches - not enough to take an asprin for - I have a very high pain tolerance), and feeling generally more upbeat. I have a hard time eating all the food I need to eat, but I am trying.

Next week, I start on increasing my activity level. I have a desk job, which takes a lot of time, but I am going to begin getting out several times a day and getting back to walking, jogging, biking, cross training, etc. I am very happy about this as well. When my finances get a little better, I am going to be getting ready for some endurance horse races. This will be challenge on more than one level, because while I am training I will be looking for, training, and conditioning a horse for such an endeavor.

I am excited, and amped, and rearing to go now that I know something about this was successful. It has been a long time coming.

I wish everyone the best!

Updating the art world, and all my watchers

I have been on a bit of a photography kick for a while, and done quite a lot. Not all of it has been macro, but much of it has. I have also started doing some drawings and such. I really need to get going on my website, but I am a little stuck on that. I have several designs, and multiple ideas, but just how to implement them is bum-fuzzling me to an extent I haven't found all the answers yet.

Well as for new photos, I am downloading them to the computer right now, and will have them posted in this message (or maybe a msg or two after to break it up so it isn't hard to read and flow - depends on how many actually work out as I hoped).

I am also writing this blog while I am working on several other projects.

The Carousel Horse (Spring) is just about ready. It has gone through several incarnations, but I am just about done to publish it in it's final state. Just a little more work on the fine details.

The Carousel Horses (Fall/Autumn, Winter, Summer) are in the planning stages, but as soon as I get Spring done I am going to start a new one. It's a toss up of whether it will be Winter, or Fall, but I have lots of great ideas! I hope to have all three of these done by the end of the month of April. I technically have until the end of May, but I REALLY want some down time to work on another project that this one sparked - a Carousel Horse for every month of the year, and tossing in an extra one for Birthdays.

I have some pencil drawings I have been working on. They are going well, but been tossed on the back burner for the Carousel Horses project(s). I will come back to them shortly.

You know, inspiration can come from so many places, one just has to be prepared to use the inspiration they have been handed. I have recently found some such inspiration, and will be creating a series of environmentally based pieces inspired by the art of another artist. (more information on this to come)

OK, so the photos have downloaded, and the ones that don't need cropping are going to be posted in the next msg because there are so many, but the ones that need cropping will be posted in a following msg, because I need time to do the work, and I am too excited to wait to post any of them for the others.

I do hope you enjoy my work.

Been ill, but got lots done!

Today has been a symbol of my rejuvenation and regain of health and energy. I have gotten out and taken some pictures, and I have been taking care of my plants, and waiting for my opportunity to get to the other comp to do some work (it is in use by someone else at this exact moment), but I am relieved to be building back up to myself as I remember myself.

I hope to work on and possibly finish the Monkey and Herald of Spring pieces. I also hope this weekend to finish the Spring Carousel horse.

So many projects, so back to the grindstone, after I finish transplanting the night blooming Cirrus plants!

Almost finished with Spring Carosel Horse!

I have a new piece (rather large) almost finished today. Possibly will be finished today if I can get enough done between shifts at my work. I am very excited to be finishing it up. It's been a long time coming. It is most definitely the most involved and intricate digital piece I have done to date. I am very proud of it so far, and feel sure I will be wen all is said and done. There are several things that are unusual and/or unique about this piece. All that is left at this point is polishing up the coat and putting in some highlights and shadows.

Then I intend to go toward focusing on the traditional for a little while as I feel some of those skills are getting a bit rusty, and I have some ideas I would like to tinker with on there too.

Also in the planning stages are several fiber art pieces and some music narrative pieces (some of which fill both slots.

Then I am thinking about getting back to my coloring book plans. Oh so many things to do, so little time left to do them in.

Somewhere in there I want to actually finish my website, and create this blog to match, so there is a little more thrown in for good measure.

New artwork

I have been inspired by a new group of artists, and an old one. I have signed up for a new gallery website, www.storm-artists.net and have been trolling through. I have some work to do and I was just feeling real uninspired to work on it, (or anything for some reason), and I saw something on there, and it sparked me, and it's been pretty non-stop ever sense. I have done the following piece as a warm up to get the creative juices flowing and pumping again. It's "Prancing Pony #1". It's a piece done solely in Adobe Illustrator CS3. I need to go back and make a few adjustments, but I wanted to move on to the real projects. So here is (unfinished) Prancing Pony #1 for your perusal.


He was designed after seeing the photo taken by Vivstock on Deviant Art. It is posted here with her permission per her stock rules.

New projects and changes to plans...

Well, life is what happens when you have other plans, right?

Right!

Well, the shows I had set up to plan on going to have either been indefinately cancelled, or I didn't find out how to apply soon enough and then ended up missing the deadline. I hate when that happens, but shall move on.

I still have one show to apply to, still planning my move, and still doing art, though it may seem like I haven't been. I know I have said this before, but this time I mean it... I am going to be more active on my blog now.

My newest piece is titled High Chancellor. It was done from a photograph taken at Medieval Times when I went with a friend Teague-Drydan (http://teague-drydan.deviantart.com/) when she came down to Texas to visit for a few days. I am very proud of it. It was done using Camera Raw and Photoshop CS4. And for what it is worth here is.....

drum roll please.....

High Chancellor

The original photo was taken using a Canon Rebel XTI set on nightshot setting with a flash.

It wasn't easy to get shots in the setting we were in. It was dark, there was strobe lights, smoke, strong lighting affects, and people swinging banners and light up toys etc, so the shots I got were few and far between.

However, I must say, Adobe Photoshop CS4, amazing, breathtaking, and so easy to use!

I'm very impressed.

And I am impressed with the results.

If you are curious, the horse is a Friesian (or Frisian depending on where you are from).

I would love some feedback on this if anyone has any. (constructive please)

Don't Meddle in the Affairs of Dragons...

For they think you are crunchy and taste good with catsup.

Well, I haven't posted here in a while, not because I forgot. OH no, I didn't forget. It is because I have been beating my head against the table screaming out my creative woes. I have been struggling and drowning in a problem.

I want to create a dragon. A very unique dragon. I see it in my head, but can't seem to figure out how to make the parts come together. So, I decided to make one of my own, building it up piece by piece, and then designing a pattern from that. Then the question was how to begin. OI! So many ideas running through my head and no real means to get them into the proper medium.

So I decided to work on an animal I knew better. An equine. Well, that is easier and harder in some respects. My real problem is how to handle the armature. I want it to be an artist doll (not a toy).

I am going to be building an armature, bulking it some with tape (probably floral to be honest, but we will see when I get that far), then further bulking with yarn, and finally ending with fabric being pinned to get a pattern onto the "model". The actual piece will be possibly (depending on my moments inspiration) glued, sewn, stuffed, trapuntoed (sp?), needle sculpted, gessoed, painted, etc. I really want to give a shot to oil pastels on the fabric structure!

If I can get a horse figured out, then I can move on to the dragon I have in mind.

I hope everyone would be interested to see the outcome as I work it through.

The horse is to be named "Cainwyn Cyra" and will be nicknamed if someone so desires "Cierrah". She is a fantasy creature being, you will understand when you start seeing her creation.

Seems I owe the blog some inspirational entries as well. Those will be on the way shortly.