<p><center><h1>Viviparous lizards (Lacerta vivipara)</h1></center></p>
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<p>I added another layer of colored pencil and ink today. I've been trying to upload the video to Youtube most of the day.  I just found out my upload problems are iMovie, it sucks hind-teat! So I export to my desktop and then I can upload to Youtube. Other than exporting video issues,  today was very productive. I worked on two paintings but didn't finish either one. It seems these two art pieces have minds of their own and don't want me to speed my way through creating. </p>
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<p> As I was working on the lizard early this morning I kept thinking of how harmful we are to ourselves. I am not talking about racism, bigots, wars, jealousy and hatred, all the other shit we have to deal with from other people and institutions. I am talking about the crap we deal out to ourselves. From overworking, to getting angry, experiencing negative emotional states, we feel anger and hatred first. We don't have to generate these negative emotions. We are the driver of this car!  In fact the person or thing we are angry about don't feel a thing when we lash out, especially if it's an inanimate object. But even a person doesn't really feel our hatred unless they decide to react to our emotion or we lash out at them physically. </p>

A person who wouldn't harm a fly will commit suicide, killing themselves or a person will eat themselves to death, or a person will starve themselves to death, the extremes of emotions can literally kill us and this doesn't have to happen. We would never treat our pets as badly as we treat ourselves.  Vegans who feel awful at the thought of harming another sentient being but harm themselves as if they aren't a sentient being. Please anyone who reads this, please don't hurt yourself. Be kind to yourself, be your best friend and mentor. With a well disciplined mind one can walk through hell without getting burned.</p>
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<p><i><center>18 x 12 inches, 190lb watercolor paper, pen, and ink.</center></i></p>



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<p>I was browsing through my home stream here on Steemit a week ago and saw this amazing photograph catching the details of lizard scales. I went into bliss, yeah I am weird that way, I love details, especially if they have to do with patterns. I love drawing details, I leave time and everyday thoughts and just draw, like I am the pen and paper.  </p>
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