MORE Life at the Shed...

A gorgeous, mosaic-like bug under the edge of an old green planter...

Busy nuthatches with their metallic "beep" sounds...

Wild honeysuckle may be a wicked invasive, but the birds adore it...which, of course, is WHY it's so successful...

I love sunny days when I can sit on the deck and journal and sketch...

The black one is a Stilman& Birn journal that's a delight to write in, the other's one of my hand-bound artists' journals

Soaking up the D-vitamins! 

And then to work, doing videos by the big window.  On sunny days, the light is sufficient, on cloudier ones I used the photo-floods...and Joseph is building me a bigger table to do demos on!  Hooray...

Video setup du jour

I still wasn't getting quite enough light in the video setup I wrote about last month, in THIS post.  It was nice, and works, but I think I need photo-flood lights.

It looked like it should be light enough, but still...not quite.

Putting the camera in front of the big French doors helped...you can see the video I just shot on the Artist's Journal Workshop blog, HERE.  I'm still no Spielburg, but we're getting better...

Now all I have to do is remember #1, to turn on the camera, and #2, not to knock the tripod over. 

So far, though, the shed works great for videos, because there's no telephone and not much chance of a noisy interruption.  I don't have a red light on the door!