Aug10Art

I did this small colorful lizard in my sketchbook, hopefully my friend Melissa who hates lizards won't find it too offensive.  We have quite a few plain green lizards in our yard and garden,  I like them, they eat mosquitos and other bugs.

Aug09Art

Rain, rain go away, come again another day... PLEASE.  I don't know how much more water we can take around here, before people are using kayaks in the streets downtown.

Aug08Art

This page was painted first then ink, backwards to the usual way I do things.  Trying some different things,  it is easy to get in a rut and start furnishing it, laying down carpet and getting really comfortable in that rut.

Aug07Art

This mixed media paper, doesn't work like watercolor paper, so I'm struggling with it a bit.  I'm enjoying the portrait format, wish the gutter didn't produce such a shadow on my scanner.

Aug06Art

My friend Celeste shared an article about warming up, by filling a page with dots of color from your palette. Sounded perfect for me today... so dots of color with my mop brush.  Below a link to a little video of part of our ride today.

Aug05Art

A bit of rain, a bit of sun,  tax free weekend, so shopping for Ron a new printer and I found the cutest Shark pencil case.  We went to Gilligan's for some seafood tonight,  very good as usual.

Aug04Art

Raining this morning, so I took the Smart Car to Columbia today.  Great lunch at Chili's (our favorite place for lunch on Fridays).  Used my multi-colored pencil to draw my wine glass... pretty wonky drawing, perhaps too much wine before drawing, or was it not enough wine?

Aug03Art

Meant to add... "I'm not Fat, I'm fluffy"  to this page...  but scanned it before I wrote that... thunderstorm woke me and Gracie up at 4:30am today, cloudy all day but no more rain.  Headed to Columbia tomorrow morning... may need to take the car instead of the motorcycle... sigh.

Aug02Art

More brush marking, using my inch flat brush with yellow on one side and orange on the other.  The orange over took the yellow so less orange, more yellow to get that half in half look I was hoping for.

Aug01Art

Practicing making marks with different paint brushes.  This one was an Escoda Travel brush size 12,  it has some crimped hairs, which most of my travel brushes end up with, because I can't get the cap back on without bending some of the hairs back.

July31Art

Back to work, and back to school can you believe it?  I'm loving the cooler weather, but I'm not counting on it lasting very long, this is Charleston SC after all.

July30Art

What a beautiful day to ride,  low temperatures for July, low humidity.  Ron and I took a ride down to historic Sheldon Church, took a picnic lunch with us, and enjoyed the quiet site.

July29Art

I rarely see a blue jay in my yard, lots of robins, mocking birds, cardinals, finches and the occasional blue bird and even rarer hawk.  Evidence of blue jays showed up in the yard today, several distinctly blue jay feathers maybe a little fight with one of the territorial mocking birds.  Whatever happened, I got a few feathers to try to paint.

July28Art

My hair dryer hangs from a hook on the wall by my desk, the cord caught my eye tonight.  It isn't red it's black,  but a black cord would be boring.