Life of Pol

  Yesterday was the Fourth of July, a day of celebration. Yet, this current America has nothing to celebrate as yet ANOTHER mass shooting happened. A 22-year-old on top of a building shot people in a crowd who were attending a parade! I already felt discouraged yesterday as I saw no pride in celebrating America since it has become such a cesspool of violence and hate. After the news broke of the shooting, I only felt worse about where I live. There have been more than 300 mass shootings this year alone! It's only July! Yet the Republicans and all the back woods morons are still fighting to have their AR-15s at the ready, no matter how many people die. I'm ashamed of this country. Truely disgusted.

  Well, I finally started wood burning again. I had stopped for a while, but after watching several videos on YouTube, I realized how much I missed it. I wanted to challenge myself and do something different than an animal, which is my go-to subject, and try a portrait.  This is Arthur Morgan, the main character from the game Red Dead Redemption 2, and the most lovable bad guy you'll ever meet. After a couple more tries, I realized that portraits just aren't for me. Trying to get the skin to appear smooth takes a lot of very light layers repeated time and time again.  Pyrography takes patience, and I have only a limited amount to spare. In the end, trying to create realistic portraits just took too much time, with too many failures. It zapped the fun out of burning. But I have a brand-new burner, so I am definitely doing more. I have my eye on a really cute baby raccoon. 💓