Painting...with light

I recently started following another photography blog. I love photography blogs. Anyway, on the blog was pictures and a tutorial for light painting. She explained it well enough for me to manage a few shots. It was fun. I was home by myself, so there was a lot of back and forth between shots. The cat and the dog were freaked out by the events. Anyway, I don't have a tripod, so I used the back of a recliner. I set my shutter speed to a 10 second exposure, put my aperture to 22 and used the 10 second timer on the camera to get in front of it before it snapped. Here are my results.

My first attempt. I made a circle.

Then I tried to make a heart

This one turned out better

I wanted to spell "mom". Not so much though.

A little better...

This was my last attempt. I gave up and went to bed. I was tired.

Basically it was me in a dark living room, with a flashlight. Go to mcdougall photography to check out the tutorial and her awesome pictures. She got much better results.