Charlie O'Shields

You’re right Charlie, life is too short to be grumpy. Cool doodlewash by the way.

Your painting of little Charlie skipping stones is adorable! Alas, I never managed to get even a single skip when I threw stones. I was usually lucky if I managed to get it in the lake at all, lol.

I lived a mile from Lake Michigan and you’d think I would be a good stone skipper. But alas, I’m in the bottom echelon of that sport too. I my have talked about this before, but I went out for the track team. I was going to be a champion shot put thrower. Dad even bought me a shot ball to practice. I showed up at my first practice raring to go. Then I found out that even the shot put people had to run laps at every practice. That might I put my shot ball away and never returned to any organized sport but bowling!

Great post Charlie! Hold on to your dreams as you never know what the future may bring.

Great sketch of little Charlie! I remember my Dad teaching us how to skip stones. Have to admit I still like skipping stones…just takes me back to being a kid.

This is adorable. I love the way you painted the hair….just too cute! Skipping stones was a lot of fun even if I never mastered it.

Lovely piece of writing! I never played skipping stones – maybe because we don’t have many lakes or ponds in So Cal. Sounds like a fun and contemplative pastime, even for an adult.

This is adorable.

I haven’t done this prompt yet. I was actually ahead of the game until recently. I am going to copy your sketch. 🙂 For one, it is so cute, two it reminds me of skipping stones on Lake Superior(they had an abundancy of flat stones) and three it will get me to finally do some water painting. Thanks!

Great topic and doodle! That little guy got several skips, must have been practicing. It never worked for me, as a leftie. I think most of the stones I tried were right handed….

So true! 😃💕 And now I’m determined to find a lake nearby to try skipping stones again! hehe

Great broccoli and great post Charlie!

I’d eat that broccoli any day! I’ve often thought it to bad that we’ve almost lost the secondary (and I think original) meaning of ‘peculiar’, as Seurat uses it, meaning ‘distinctive and individualistic’ and most people just understand it as the ‘odd or bizarre’.

I received a tube of Windsor violet in the mail today and wanted to see how it painted out. I smeared some on the back of a failed painting and spread it out, then thought I should add some other colors to see how it played. The upshot is that I now have a landscape of trees in a hill that I like better than the tree in a hill I did yesterday. My personal style of scribbling with paint is coalescing.

Yes to peculiar in all its meanings!

Wow Charlie! You make broccoli look good!

Nice broccoli! One of my favorite veggies!

Very cool! Before I even read your story, I expanded my screen to see if you physically drew in all those dots. After reading your story, now I know. However, you did go back and sketch in all those cirlces in….right? How long did that take???? I love the detail in this random piec of broccoli. ;P

Looks so very real. I could eat that!!

Thanks so much! 😃💕 Hehe… any chance to scribble and I take it!

Great article, Charlie. Funny, I’ve photographed vegetables (particularly Cauilflower) but have never tried to sketch any. Might be time I tried. 🙂