Hello to all :) Well...just to show you a sketch of a game, that i finished past night. But i have to tell you a bit about all this.... As some of you know, i broke my leg and knee past year, doing a extreme force to avoid to fall down the stairs, when i missed a rung because I was stepping ago march...and if i fell i would hit with my head pum-pum-pum, till the end of the stairs:(( i was stupid of course...i was taking away a very heavy thing to the road, alone, step by step. Then, i was months with canadians and doing therapy and ultra sounds. BUT I am 100% now:) i have good bones, lol, said the doctor. But i did it all in a 'nursing home' near my home, due a request of my family doctor, because i couldn't go far from home, nor be away during much time due some domestic problems . I was lucky because is a good place, always overcrowded because is social but they had place for me in the moment. There, along the time, i had contact with therapists but also with Social Assistants and utentes and residents of the nursing home. Some, much more ill than others, but with a good assistance and differents activities in tune with each problem and always supervised. I needed to go there during an hour per week and i begun taking with me my pencils and i sketched while was doing the treatment. And i begun thinking that was good that after finish the treatment, if i was allowed to go there the same but to sketch. It would be a self training that i had not since long ago... My therapist enjoyed the sketches and asked me to show her more. I showed RR:)))))))))) my gallery and others galleries also...then, she did a request to the Social Assistants and they found the idea interesting. I would go there and will sketch the activity of the utentes in their differents works. Never had been done before and they were excited and me too. Was a thing completely new there, and the Residents- ladies and men- also loved to be drawn:) Still do and when i arrive, they want to see what i have in my bag. I only can be there one hour and is not enough for me to finish a sketch. I use to photograph the scenary,after i capture them in fast lines in my sketch book. And i have to finish at home. Time is short...and i draw in a A3 always and they are many lol:)) . I have to gain ability to be able to draw them there . I am not fast enough and they love to be recognized...and i still have not that ability:))) Have to do many more...and learn to draw under pressure also...and this is not easy for me right now...but i will:)!! Is needed many times.... Perhaps i have drawn around 60 portraits in small dimension past year. I offered them all to the nursing home. It was and is a wonderful experience. I will show you more, though i don't want to tired you with all this; And as i almost have not time, due my everyday life, to be in your galleries and to comment you as i wanted so much, like before... i think it is not fair at all...but now and then i promise that i will come here and will show what i did and i am doing. I have to thank this Nursing Home very much the fact that they allowed me to be present in many activities and i want still be there more. I love the persons and i think there is a synergy between us very positive. Of course...many don't know me...as you can imagine. OK! Here is the first, that is the last:) but is ''fresh'' at least:))) and i went there today to give it to them and also wanted to have their feedback . They are always smiling, and here, in this game, they were very serious and concentrated...so, one had some difficulty to see that was really her...lol...i had to show the photo and other said that i had invented the clothes...lol! But i had the photo:))))))) Well...it is a permanent learning in many ways:) and a challenge also! love it! I hope that you enjoy and i am sorry if i burn your eyes with this ''testament''...but i never am here and never told about what was going...so, i thought it was time to explain part of this...including my absence that in part, is part of this also.... Thank you for being here with me and looking and for your patience!. I wish to everyone a great week of Summer with health , joy and much creativity;) ~~ ana