Missing In Action

I have kind of disappeared from the blogging world this last while.  I am still around, I just have been spending a lot of time on my artwork.  I am still going to class twice a week and have also been working on a picture at home on my own.  I work slowly so it takes me a long time to do a picture.
The pastel painting that I did of Frank the dog arrived in Canada with no mishaps.  I took about a week and a half from the day I mailed it here to the day he was notified that it had arrived there.  That is not too bad.  I did send it registered mail though and I watched its progress on the post office site.
I have been working on a picture, again in soft chalk pastels of a hummingbird and flower.
This is the web photo that I have been using as a reference.

Here was the beginning of my painting.

And here is the finished project.  Well, finished that is until I take it to class tomorrow and show my teacher.  Unlike all the other people I have shown it to, he will see all the errors that I have made.  I have lots of questions to ask him about shading to get the right depth that I am missing.  It should be interesting to try and fix the mistakes that I have made.

I have several other projects at home that I want to get started on and also have several things that I want to blog about the neighbourhood, so perhaps will be on more frequently in the next few days.  We will see what happens.
Til later.