Jan10Art

Picked up a little tin box at Barnes and Noble, it was supposed to be to hold a gift card.  Pulled the insert out, painted the inside with white enamel paint, the added some half pans and a couple of travel brushes.

Jan09Art

Watched a Shoo Raynor video this morning on drawing circles free hand, so I drew several pages of circles today... thus the circles here.  I should probably do several pages of ellipses as I find them even harder than circles.  Managed to draw my favorite pencil.  Attended the final 'party' of the holiday season tonight it was a lot of fun.  

Jan08Art

Spent the morning getting another dental implant, and the afternoon in bed enjoying the miracle of pain killing drugs.  I'm up now because the anti-biotic I'm on requires me to sit up for at least 10 minutes after taking it.  Supposed to make me sick to my stomach, so far that hasn't happened but I've only taken 2 of them.  I hope this one stays put.

Jan07Art

The down side of living in an early primary state and working at home, is the phone ringing constantly with pollsters wanting to know who I'm going to vote for, or politicians wanting me to give them money.  I'll be glad when the primary is over and the crowd moves on to other places for a while anyway.

Jan06Art

I spent way more time looking for a quote tonight, and when I found this one, I had to give drawing Winston Churchill a try.  He was quite the artist himself,  as well as a great leader during WWII.  We could use a man like him today as the world spirals into chaos again.

Jan05Art

Added blobs of watercolor, added some eyes, beaks, legs, a wing and a few tail feathers and voila birds.  Got a call from the service department, they've ordered parts for my trike, but probably won't have it fixed until Thursday or Friday... too cold to ride right now anyway.  I've got cold weather gear, but I have my limits and under 40 is one of them.  Supposed to be in the 70s this weekend, YEAH.

Jan04Art

When I finally had a few minutes to draw in my journal, 'Eat, Pray, Love' was on the TV, during her Italy portion of the movie and the trees caught my eye... so Cypress trees.  I used my Inktense pencils for most of the color, but I wasn't happy with what the trees looked like so I picked at them with watercolors for a bit, but the paper wouldn't take much more so here they are, along side my to do list today.

Jan03Art

Disappointing hockey game today, faced the same team as yesterday, except today we lost 4 to 2.  I used micron pen and colored pencils to draw and color in the rainbow row houses.  The colors are based on the pencils I have, and while the actual houses have trees and flowers and what not on their balconies I didn't feel up to drawing them the houses and all those windows challenged me enough for today.

Jan02Art

Last Summer at the Urban Sketchers Chicago workshop, in the goodie bag was a General's Sketch and Wash pencil, in the spirit of trying new things (and using less water)  I used that pencil to do the negative space around my hockey player.  I think I like it; nice too that once it was dry there was no smudging onto fingers or the facing page, that's one of the reasons I don't like using pencil in sketch books.

Jan01Art

Recently I was inspired by the work of artist Ros Jenke on Flickr, and found her blog https://rosjenke.wordpress.com/ inspiring as well.  She keeps a small square journal and I liked the format of her pages, so I shamelessly copied her, and plan to continue at least until this journal is finished.  

On Facebook the other day I went to a list of the worst cars to buy, and there #15 on the list was our beloved Smart Car and well as my Jeep Compass.  Well folks I disagree with whoever did up this list, we LOVE our smart car, and I LOVE my Jeep, oh our Jeep Wrangler was on the list too...  we've had more fun in that Jeep than should be allowed.  So don't believe everything you read on Facebook folks.

Rainy and chilly here today, so I did a chart of my watercolor pencils, I got some new ones, that I'd never used before and wanted to see what they looked like.  Not sure why I have so many red pencils, and most of them are so close in color as to be redundant and therefore NOT carried out and about with me.

Book 36 Title Page

I started keeping a daily journal in 2008 after reading Danny Gregory's book 'Creative License' and surviving cancer surgery.  I started in a small 5 x 5 square global arts Hand*book journal.  So for something NEW to start the year a new/old journal format, and thin paper not suited to watercolor or markers,  I have gesso and matte medium these days so that thin paper doesn't scare me... it will be an adventure.

Dec31Art

Happy New Year everyone, Ron and I had our Champagne at 10pm, and we'll be down and out soon.

Dec30Art

My roses and hibiscus are still blooming, I would have thought the shorter days would have had an influence on them, but the warm weather has them fooled.  My impatiens are all gone, so the shorter days was enough to make them give up for the year.  A couple of my azaleas are budding, sadly if they bloom now, we'll have no blooms this Spring.

Dec29Art

My J.E.B. Stuart doggie, is named after the confederate general who defended (not very successfully) Atlanta Georgia during the war of Northern aggression a.k.a. the Civil War back in the 1860s.  He is NOT named after a certain X Florida governor, currently running (not very successfully) for the GOP nomination for President.  My husband and I have tickets for the Fox Business Channel GOP debate to be held here in Charleston in January.  I'll be digging out my hat to wear.