Don’t Call Me Animal

We used to have the actual Sesame Street character Animal but the peeps gave
him away so Oscar the Grouch will have to stand in for him.

Are you ready for this week’s 52 Snapshots’ photo challenge? I think I am. It was kinda hard to decide which way to go with the theme of Animal. Since I don’t consider myself to be an animal, I thought maybe I’d use pics of the peeps but decided it was a bad idea.

While we’re on the subject of animals, I have to get something offa my chest. I don’t like it when human garbage aka human excrement are called animals. That’s an insult to those who walk upon four legs. Real animals kill for food; we don’t kill for sport or fun. We don’t walk into elementary schools, campuses, movie theatres and kill everyone in there. Human excrement does that. We don’t kill prized lions to put on our trophy wall; we don’t kill majestic elephants for their ivory. That’s more human excrement. They’re not to be confused with beautiful, gentle animals. We know how to control our tempers and our weapons. Rant over.

This is my hedgehog. I used to have a Twitter furrend named
@HellaHedgie. Hedgehogs are animals, aren’t they?

Thanks to Christina and The Lazy Pit Bull for hosting the 52 Snapshots of Life photo challenge this week and every week throughout 2015. For those who would like to participate, next week’s theme is World. It’s a small world after all with the interwebs.

So many of you liked last week’s Paint Pro 3 PS actions that I decided to feature a few more today as my submissions to the Caturday Art Blog Hop. They were both done with different settings of the same action. Since TW decided for some warped reason to waste my time by shooting an entire photo op with Oscar right into the glare on my Tree of Pain, I decided to “save” some of the images by using them as art.

The one below is the Paint Pro 3 Detailed. This almost looks like a cartoon filter. Per usual, you can biggify them if you’d like. Doesn’t Oscar look funny? Don’t I look annoyed?

Thanks to Athena and Marie for hosting the pawsome Caturday Art Blog Hop every week. Without it, TW would still be clueless about photoshop. Stop by the see some creative anipals strutting their newest art images.