OOOOOOH Yeah! Lovin' this new toy!

Okay, it's not really a toy.

It's a work tool.

But you know what?

I love it!

It's the little projector thing I've been wanting and needing for a long time and finally at long last HAVE!

I'm having a ball using it on the big painting I've got in the works - to get the figures placed right and sized right (sort of; I still have to work on MY skills) and the features just so.  

This thing is amazing!

It's small and portable but packs a lot of power. I can move it as close as I want for detail work and back it up to get a 'big picture'.

I've got photo figures of a WIDE variety of sizes so it's nice to be able to scootch in to shrink the ones that are too big, and back up to enlarge the ones that are too small. I have to say I do NOT have the hang of it all quite yet but this rough draft painting gives me hope for the future!

I can connect it directly to my laptop (which is kind of funny, actually, because I'll forget it's connected and be doing something or other on my little screen - totally oblivious to the fact that it's all showing up on the BIG screen of the painting 'canvas' - and happen to catch it out of the corner of my eye and freak out) which is right handy because I can work on selecting, sizing, cropping, etc. and (assuming I'm paying attention) see the life-sized results as I go.

OR I can make my photo picks, put them onto a flash drive, and just use that - don't have to have anything else unless I want to!  

It's helpful to have a genius for a nephew, I have to say. Kevin informed me that if I want to use this same grouping of figures with more background I can just take a photo of them, put up a new canvas, do the background, and project them onto the background at whatever size I want. 

Good thing I just invested in a bunch of big 'canvases' because I can see where this could get to be one heck of a good time, playing with it all!  

I know, I KNOW! I'm supposed to be creating book covers so Mamm of Perth and Mamm of Tarnos can get into print ... and I will, I promise!

Really.

I will. 

But see the thing about THAT is that it sounds like work - THIS, on the other hand, definitely feels like playing.

Now I ask you:  Can something that feels so very much like playing be WORK?

Heh.

Yeah. Yeah it can!

And that, my friend, is just plain flat out LOVELY!