Today, I bought some oil paints at wal-mart and tried my hand at it. Their texture is so rich and the colors are much more vibrant than any other paint medium that I've worked with so far. I loved it and I think I'll have a hard time switching back to acrylics. I painted a little 8x10 canvas with a magnolia. I started with something simple and small just to get the feel of it...next time I think I'll try a larger canvas. Although our wal-mart is always out of canvases. The biggest size they had today was 11x14 and the biggest size they ever sell is 16x20, so I'll have to wait until we're in H'burg again befor I can get anything bigger than that.
Fall has arrived in Mississippi. The weather has started to cool and the leaves are just barely beginning to change colors. Justin and I went hiking yesterday afternoon with Grady out at Enid state park. It was the perfect day for it too; there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I think I got some pretty good pictures, but it started to get dark before we finished our hike so I didn't get as many as I would have liked. Still, it was a most excellent day.
So, Justin and I decided to get a kitten. One would think that would be a pretty easy task, so we headed out to the local animal shelter and I dropped of a volunteer application. Then we went to look at the kittens. They had some cute ones so we thought we'd adopt. Nope. Apparently they need to have permission from your landlord, your veterinary records and all sorts of stuff like that. No big deal, we figured we'd just buy a cat. But, there are no pet stores in Oxford so we thought we'd go to Memphis. However, it is apparently illegal to sell kittens in the state of Tennesee. Tell me that isn't the weirdest thing you've ever heard. So we are kittenless. We'll just have to get one when we go up to VA for Thanksgiving. Mississippi never gets boring, that's for sure.
