Very cool! Actually, I find it fun to play with limited tools. I've drawn pieces using nothing but a red, yellow and blue map pencils, just for the challenge of it. You did great on this piece. The sky looks very natural.

Well thank you, I had fun doing it. It was just one of two pictures I made today, the other was a desert night scene. I love to do skies and water, I don't know why. Thank you again for the compliment.

I'm very curious to know what you were feeling when you did this work, hun. It seems awfully emotional.

Well, it's kinda hard to explain and some people will probably take it the wrong way. I was feeling trapped. Trapped and not getting anywhere in my life. I long for freedom, to dive into the sky... heh, dive into the sky. That was a phrase I came up with when I was a teen and saw the most beautiful sky on a day I was feeling like this. It was my definition of freedom, to have nothing tie me down and no one to tell me how to be. I thought then that soon as I became an adult and finished school, I could finally be me. I failed to get a scholarship to any college and my fiance dumped me so I became enslaved to my parents because I needed some place to stay. I then thought I found a way out, I found the love of my life and that meant a new lease on life. Well, here I am, enslaved to his parents, and they are worse than mine. At least with mine, I was allowed to eat the food in the house and be more of myself. They mock me all the time and it hurts so badly. We won't be able to escape their clutches for at least another 10 years. While I do have my wonderful spouse, I sometimes wonder if I am ever actually happy. Most days, I have to answer no, I am not happy. My love works in a job that is killing him, and his parents are killing us. I know... I know... no one really cares, I should plaster on my fake smile and pretend the tears in my eyes are from dust. Just life is barreling down on me and I can't breathe, I avoid going on my yahoo messenger because I have one person constantly making demands of me, I can't sleep because my mind is constantly in turmoil, and art wise, I have been in a slump. Yeah I do sketches and whatnot but it seems too much hassle to scan them in. **sniffles and dries eyes to compose self again**

I will be fine, long story short, I just have been down, feeling blue and longing for freedom.

I care. *takes your hand and smiles*

Hey, mind if I draw you something? It may be a while before I can get things posted, but if it's okay with you....?

You don't have to, but... thank you, I would love that. Oh crap, I am crying again. I am just a big cry baby boi today. Normally when I am being a boy, I am all tough and stoic, the girl side is the one that cries. Oh well, tears of joy don't count against me. **big smile** Seriously Ashley, thank you from the depths of my heart.