Robert A. Sloan's Page

I finally bought a new webcam. It's wonderful, it does double duty as a good still camera and I finally managed to get a decent photo of myself. So it's up now as a new avatar. I even smiled in it -- this is very rare for me.

I'm usually dead pan nonsmiling blinking like a cat and purring. Friendly, but not really given to smiling a lot. This time the wreckage that's rooted in my gums making me look like a British actor with a bad dentist isn't visible, so this photo makes it through my self-co… Continue

Now you can get a look at my new listing -- http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12618461 is the link for "ACEO Gray Wolf, Five MInute Art."

I'm doing five minute sketches for sale, and most of them have already sold. They are priced much lower than the works that take a long time to finish in polished mediums like colored pencils painting but often come out as powerful artworks in their own right

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+ New Blog Post is on the front page. Me dummy.

Anyway, I should also sort through my album of unsold cards and put some new listings on Etsy, since I am starting to accumulate a fair number of them. There's a gorgeous wolf that I did and listed on eBay twice, yet it didn't get buyers when a lot of other nature drawings did. I don't get it. I know people love wolves. Well, we'll see who wants wolfie on Etsy, that one definitely needs listing first!

I went through Manage Blog to get to the screen where I saw a little + Add New Post button, and managed to fumble my way to it in only two clicks. So that's a happy thing. I'm not real good with new software. It's probably my age. My daughter lives with changing software and learns it much faster than I do. My grandkids will have computers as little kids, grade school ageish, and probably wind up writing their own software as easily as I learned to draw.

I've been

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I spend a lot of time blogging at http://robertsloan2.livejournal.com anyway, so starting another blog is going to be a trip and a half. Hello, all my new readers. I was born to blather and my fingers race across the keys at approximately 110 words per minute, much faster than I could speak or write longhand.

This occasionally results in run-on sentences when I get excited. I still only punctuate when I breathe. Imagine me speaking

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