Designing by the Seat of my Pants

That is IF you could call this 'designing' ~ wishful thinking on my part.  Anyhoo.....friend Robin asked me if I was going to show the wood carving of my inspiration.  Wrote to tell her it would be on my next post but sent her a picture of it privately and suggested that perhaps I should put in both oxen.  

Before I left the house this morning to run errands and get shorn impetuous me quickly drew the single enlarged oxen.  Big mistake because when I returned at lunch time she'd commented saying "yes two oxen and both dogs in black to represent my Rotties".  Robin, the background is black so the dog won't be black, sorry.

So back to the drawing board to draw the second ox but not enlarged.  So no your eyesight isn't going bad I'm slowing driving you crazy with my drawing.

Since lunch and the 're-draw' I've scrambled to pull worms, hook a little, rip out and hook a little to give you something to see.

The ear color is way wrong and I'm trying to convince myself this is PRIMITIVE and NOT realistic, to chill and just hook for goodness sake just hook.  This is not a musk ox which are real hairy and dark colored.  But learned that ox can be anywhere from almost white and grey to caramel colored.  Here is one photo I saved as the inspiration.

So now  my attempt at designing means everything else I drew needs to be repositioned or deleted.  Now I'm thinking the Thin Blue Line is looking more inviting to deal with that this attempt at designing.

Saundra

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