I've Started Drawing!

My wonderful parents got me a Bamboo (pen and touch) tablet  for Christmas and I have been playing around with it. I must admit that I barely know what I am doing but I've been having a lot of fun!

Here is a drawing I've done from a picture Evan took of Zoe. I used my Bamboo tablet (duh) and Corel Painter Essentials 4. It doesn't really look like it (and this is where my inexperience shows) but I used chalk on the smallest setting. Took me a few days. I am happy with it!



(Tip: Click on the thumbnail and then click again to enlarge the picture to see the details!)

Our Very Own Boxador

Her name is Zoë.

She is a Boxer Labrador Retriever mix from Conway, Arkansas. We actually found her through petfinder.com. I was rather skeptical of the whole thing and I was expecting to show up at the pickup location in Bridgeport, CT to find that it was all a scam and that there was no little Zoë. Thankfully, we arrived at the pickup location and there was the transport truck with a handful of people waiting to meet their new family members.

We picked her up on July 17th, the day of the joint birthday party for my father and myself. There were over 50 people in attendance, along with 5 dogs (two of which were full grown white pyrenees!) Zoë fit right in. She played hard with the other dogs, wanted to meet everyone, and even went swimming!

Now it is early September and we've had Zoë for a few months and she is shaping up to be a pretty smart, great dog.

Here is Zoë on her first day!