A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

The healing in my arm has gone very well, even though it seems glacial at the time.  After 8 weeks my sling is off and I can start using my right arm for "most" things.  I say most because the strength of my upper muscles is quite low from no usage.  Draw require very little usage of the upper muscles so back to drawing with my right. Here is the first drawing Post-Sling. It's of an old mine building on the Park City Mountain Resort.  I took a photo of it last summer when I was out there working on the yard / house in-between tenants. Here is the photo of it from which the drawing was taken from.  Yeah it's the same but different and everything is a bit off.  Hey, that's the way I roll on my drawings.  The ink + markers let the objects standout and show themselves rather boldly. I've got a number of other mine photos to draw and I'm also looking at using some different paper to see what effect it has on the result.  Always tweaking and making adjustments t

 I did it again, I broke a part of my body again this year.  Last year I broke my ankle fly fishing and that took a chunk of time out of my walking life.  Well, this year I broke my shoulder (fly fishing again) and that has taken a chunk of my "art" life (right shoulder of course). Broken ankles can heal slowly but they do heal and you can get on with your life.  Broken shoulders also take a while to heal, BUT, big BUT here, the rehab to get your shoulder back to where it needs to be (movement, etc), is vastly different.  They mostly do NOT do surgery for a broken shoulder unless there are lots of pieces and / or those pieces are moving around.  So no surgery for either of my breaks but with shoulders the repercussions of not moving this complex joint much causes the much longer recovery time and rehab work.   It's the impact force that fractures the Humerus bone that gets transmitted into the shoulder joint and causes trauma to the soft tissue that's the real issue.