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hello good people, i've been lurking these forums for a couple of days now and have found a lot of helpful information on RES. my friend gave me two RES before he moved out to LA and they came in one of those little tubs (the ones with the fake plastic palm trees) so the first thing i did is went to the nearest pet store and purchase a lamp for them to bask under and sufficient tank for them live in until these little guys start getting much bigger. the turtles are so much happier now. this is my first time taking care of semi-aquatic reptiles, but it's already turning out to be a great deal of fun. i love watching these guys bask and eat while i paint and draw.

cheers.

welcome to the forum!

Greetings! What are your turtles' names? You sound like an artist. There are a couple of artists on here. You'll fit right in! And you are right, turtles are very theraputic.

their names are spike and norma jean, i already spoil them two much i had no idea turtles could be so greedy.

i am an artist! i paint and do charcoal portraits welcome. what do you do?

i love charcoal and soft pastels, trying to get into painting a bit more.

yes i love pastel too. i dont have much experience with paint, although whenever i do one it turns out very nice...that is if i finish it. i get bored and move on. i also like prisma color portraits. i just like the control that drawing gives me. besides, my drawings win contests, my paintings never get finished to be entered!

I'm a prisma color addict! i seem to have the same problem never finish painting, my friend has been buggin me to finish a water colour painting of some koi fish for a while now.

yeah i have a watercolor started of a hawaiian green sea turtle...and i only have the penciled in shapes..and its been..what? two years? haha. i got the privledge to snorkle with them in hawaii a couple summer ago. amazing.

i just bought the 120 prisma color set (so expensive, got it off ebay unused for $60!) and its wonderful.