Bella's Blog For A Dog: Big Day Out...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: Big Day Out...: We took our first major outing since Bella's T1-D diagnosis to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. It's about an hour and a half there from F...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: Why a Diabetic Alert Dog? (part I)

Bella's Blog For A Dog: Why a Diabetic Alert Dog? (part I): It occurred to me last night that we're telling everyone we're trying to get a Diabetic Alert Dog (D.A.D.) for Bella, but no one has really ...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: One month anniversary...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: One month anniversary...: Today is our 1 month anniversary of the T1D diagnosis. It has been an emotional roller coaster of a month! As sad as it seems, I *think* we ...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: Thanks everyone!

Bella's Blog For A Dog: Thanks everyone!: Bella got a way cool hello kitty magic wand (and it makes a good microphone too!) and a princess jewelry box filled with goodies from Erin...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: It's official!!!!!!

Bella's Blog For A Dog: It's official!!!!!!: Yippee!!!! We are officially on the Diabetic Alert Dog waiting list!!!! Our deposit is paid and now on bring on the fundraising!!! Yesterd...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: First Post...

Bella's Blog For A Dog: First Post...: Bella was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes on June 19, 2012. We immediately were sent to the PICU with DKA. After several days she was stabili...

Duck! Acrylic on Gesso Board 5x7

Duck! 5x7 at about 50%. About 30 minutes of actual painting time. The gel medium gets a touch streaky if  you put too much on at once, until a nice base is built up. Started this guy with a sienna underpainting to determine tone. Adding local colors and more tone here. What will get tricky on this one is the weird way that the light bounces off the background and turns the thin spots in the Duck! (i.e. the neck) to an translucent orange type thing. Hopefully next session I can clean it up and finish it off.