Jan14Art

Only 1 page left in this sketchbook, I have a hand-book watercolor journal for my next one to use.  I'm excited to try to paint the cover, an artist friend KDBlados painted hers, and it turned out fabulous… so I'm trying to decide what to paint of the cover.  The orange on this page is Translucent Orange by Schmincke. one of my favorite colors.

Jan13Art

Meeting of the Elephant Executive Committee tonight, I'm off to the meeting. I get to drive the Smart Car… it is so much fun to drive, I don't drive it much since it's Ron's daily driver.

Jan12Art

We had a BIG late lunch at Olive Garden today, then we did our weekly grocery shopping.  Before I knew what happened the day is gone and it's time to feed dogs and get ready for bed.

Jan11Art

Well I had an embarrassing Senior moment tonight.  I dressed in my hockey fan jersey, earrings, necklace… ate dinner early, husband went to get the tickets… (oh and he had changed from his work clothes for the game too)… and well no tickets, no game tonight… ooops, I was positive there was a game tonight, but I was positively wrong.

Jan10Art

Fried chicken and biscuits for dinner, leftover biscuit for breakfast tomorrow.  I love biscuit toast, split the biscuit in half add butter, pop in the toaster oven… toast on high…. add your favorite jelly or jam… cup of coffee… yummy.
Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday, today I'm feeling much better, still not quite right but much, much better.  Lots of vitamin C yesterday did the trick I think.

Jan09Art

I'm so glad today that I work from home, otherwise I'd have had to call in sick today.  Since I'm working from home, I could cough and sneeze and blow my nose and basically be sick without infecting my co-workers.  This can't be the flu, I took a flu shot back in October.  I'm not running a fever (yet anyway), just headache, stuffy nose… and feel horrid.

Jan08Art

Spent 6 hours at the US District Court house today… didn't get a chance to draw anything.  It was grindingly boring, and after all that I did not get picked for a jury.
I thought I'd share my new teeny tiny plastic pallet, got the idea from a fellow on Flickr.  It's an SD Card holder (like for your camera or smart phone), with a dab of  color and a bit of label for very limited mixing.  Colors in this little pallet are French Ultramarine Blue, Verditer Blue, Mineral Violet, Scarlett Lake, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Raw Sienna, Quin. Burnt Orange, AZO Yellow, New Gamboge and Sap Green.

Jan06Art

Faithful blog followers may have noticed the lettering on my pages has gotten bigger and more colorful.  I've been trying to teach myself Calligraphy, a friend Elly in New York has helped me a lot, sharing charts and practice exercises. I practice a lot on junk mail envelopes.  This Pilot parallel pen is my largest pen, but I have even larger Zip Calligraphy markers in several colors, as well as a smaller 2mm Nib on a Lamy Joy pen.  I spend time copying letters over and over some letters are easier for me than others.
Tomorrow I have jury duty, no phones, cameras, iPads allowed in the courtroom… hopefully a pencil, pen and sketchbook will be allowed.

Jan06Art

The warmest part of the day was around 5am when it was 63 headed toward 18 tonight… that's just CRAZY COLD.  I live in the South because I DO NOT like cold weather… it is only supposed to last for one day, and I don't have to leave the house tomorrow.  I will be letting dogs in and out all day, but other than that I can sit and work at my computer in my fuzzy slippers all day.

Jan05Art

Quiet day at home today, out for dinner at Gilligan's on John's Island, love their local shrimp.  Almost got up to 70 today, was 67 and 7pm tonight, but the cold weather will be back this week.

Jan04Art

Hockey again tonight, but my favorite Jack Russell Terrier napping at my feet was what I chose for my journal today.  When Ron got off work we went grocery shopping, home in time to shower and go to the game.

Jan03Art

You can't win them all, and tonight we didn't even manage a single goal.  We beat Gwinnett in Gwinnett yesterday, 4 - 1… perhaps our boys thought tonight would be a push over, but Gwinnett came to play and they out did us on every turn.
Folks it is COLD here in Charleston… I DO NOT LIKE cold weather, the high tomorrow will be in the 50s, 60s on Sunday… in my opinion that's cold enough.

Jan02Art

This is my new pencil/pen case from JetPen.com http://www.jetpens.com/Lihit-Lab-Teffa-Pen-Case-Book-Style-Orange/pd/7667
Inside are 3 Fountain Pens, Lamy Joy with 2mm nib, a Preppy with Medium nib (my favorite drawing pen) and a Pentel Pilot Parallel  3.8 nib (used to letter this page). Three water brushes a Holbein Large, and Niji Medium, and a Pentel Aquash. Three gel pens, black, purple and white Uniball Signo.  Two elegant writer felt tip pens a 2mm pen and a 4mm pen (ink NOT waterproof). Micron pen in size 01 and 08, a Pitt Calligraphy pen 2mm in brown.  A Bic mechanical pencil .9 lead size, extra leads and erasers.  A Lyra 5b pencil, a Derwent Blue Grey Watercolor pencil. A Sharpie fine black marker. A small Altoids tin with my kneaded eraser and pencil sharpener in it.  A small 3x4 sketchbook, and my credit card sized pallet and a piece of terry cloth for brush cleaning… quite the load for this little bag.

Jan01Art

We did not do the traditional New Years collards and black eyed peas… we had pork chops, green beans and creamed corn.  A few doable goals for 2014… need to add a couple of countdowns, to my 2014 pages… I find they keep me focused on the daily tasks.