Thank you for the kind comments all

Wow you guys are really upping the game here.. Great works of art!

Monika you have done a totally awesome job. You are so good at portraits now. Can see how much work you have put into them week after week, and it has all paid off. Congratulations.

UUUGGGHHHH!!!! I have been drawing for the last few hours and I am getting soooo frustrated! I just can't get them right. I'm gonna pack it in for tonight and clear my head until tomorrow


Great Job again Monika, I can't say that enough

An amazing drawing Monica.....even if you did have to draw it in winter!
Seriously, all around great, texture, values and likeness!

Thank you

Monika your going to laugh at this one. I am ready to burn my drawing of Gabe and Ava... I just cannot get it!

Last night when I was about to pack it in I clicked on your drawing and that was a better reference for me. LOL

I still haven't started yet today so we'll see what happens

I have started Gabe is looking chubby and Ava is an out line at the min

i think i have struck luck as for some reason my reference photo dose not have any back ground at all so cant draw it tum te tum te tum

Ok here it is

i loved doing parts of this Mainly Ava and Gabe and the hats

but you can prob tell the thought of even attempting the back ground suddenly made me go all a quiver and quick signing and finished there and then

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I'm sure it's not that bad. Remember.. we are our own worst critics.

You'll have a laugh at mine this week. I decided to go color and I barely started and I'm already crying.. lol

Good work Mark. Ava's jacket looks great and they both look like they're having loads of fun. The background looks like they could be sitting besides a huge pile of snow or maybe even on the top of the huge mountain and on the left side you can see the clouds. So it works out anyways.

hehehe i love how you have used words here now i need t edit my post now from im a slacker to i have decided to do something diff and moved them up the mountain

Thanks Monika your a star

I'm still deciding when I'm going to pick up that darn pencil again and finish it once and for all! I smashed my finger with a hammer earlier today but at least it's on the left hand.

You don't even want to know what I was doing....... OK I'll tell you. Stupid me decided that I could try to smash out a quarter and make something out of it. My kids thought that was funny so they dared me and I have never been one to pass up a dare. We'll see who get's the last laugh!

the artist in you Chris!! I hope your finger heals soon. I really want to see what you`re going to make with that quarter.

Mark you did a really good job. I love their expressions, especially Ava. Great job on the hats and jackets. I love Monikas idea of saying they are on top of the mountain... well done.

Chris hope your finger heals. Isn't it illegal to deface currency? LOL Curious to know what you are going to do with it.

Mark you did a fantastic job!!!! Your getting better and better at drawing Gabe every time I wish that I could say the same for myself

Thank you Mark

lol

Thanks Chris

i was very happy with Ava and Gabe nearly there just a little to chubby and messed his mouth up but from my first efforts im pleased

Hi Jacqui It's funny that you should ask that, I was thinking the same thing about defacing currency but I googled it and as long as I an not using it as real money there is not a law against it.



Here is the law.
"Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States. This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent"

It could not be any clearer, you can do anything you want to do with your coins as long as you are not trying to commit fraud with your altered coins.

This applies to all US coins.

Well here is my new favorite thing! I turned the quarter into a ring. It's so cool you cant see it but on the inside I was able to keep the word Liberty when I drilled it out!!!

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your one determined woman

Why thank you sir!

wow.. this is something else!! Good work Chris. Mark is right, what a determination!!

are quarters that thick?

No the actual quarter is not that thick, I hammered along the outside trying to gently tap the quarter and keep it even. It actually starts to form a lip to both sides so your just like flattening along the outsite of the quarter. then I just drilled a hole in the middle and kept sanding it with my nail file lol.

oh ok lol I was just like i've been to the U.S before and had quarters they're about the same as Canadian quarters

That's so funny, I just imagined how irritating it is when us Americans find a Canadian coin in our handful of change, because most places won't take it (if they happen to notice the difference). I wonder if it's the same way there when you find a U.S. coin?

Chris, that's pretty cool what you did with the quarter.

We take U.S. Coins I was cashiere before and we took American money I didn't like taking the bills because I always forgot what I had to calculate by and I would always forget to count it after my shift was done lol

When I hAd went to Syracuse they wouldn't even take my Canadian penny I was like why not? I think I had to break twenties cause I couldn't use my change lol

Thanks Mindy, Gabe and Ava think it's pretty cool too. I even got my husband checking it out. He said he's gonna have to lock up his tools now.
I'm going to the Home Depot now to get my own tools!!! lol

lmao!!!