Oct31Art

Happy Halloween ... hope all the little kids had fun tonight... none dropped by my house.. I don't think there are many kids in this neighborhood.  Most of the people on this end of the street are too old, and the few young people on the other end of the street don't have kids they have dogs that they run down the street with.

Oct30Art

Watched a youtube video on drawing a scary tree... I kinda like how it turned out.  Amazing the things you can learn on YouTube... lots of foolishness, but good stuff too.

Oct29Art

Everyone in New York and New Jersey... be safe, hurricanes are nothing to fool around with.  I will keep you all in my prayers, please check in here when you can, your Blogging friends are thinking about you.

Oct28Art

Halloween decorations at the Wild Wings cafe today, had a coffin with an evil clown mask inside... reminded me of the evil clown in the movie 'It'.  I watched amazed as a parent lifted up a child to see inside... I thought it was pretty scary looking, luckily the kid seemed ok, and didn't scream or anything.  So do you really not like clowns? or did you always think they were fun?

Oct27Art

Ran errands all morning while Sandy dumped rain on us.  These brown birds in the parking lot caught my eye and I came home to google them and find out what they are... brown headed cow birds.  Not many cows around here.  In the grocery store parking lot they were fighting over some bits of crackers on the ground... bold birds not afraid of people at all.
Beautiful sunset tonight... Sandy is done dumping water on us and headed to New Jersey ... stay safe up there.

Oct26Art

Caught up with my sketches for the Rural sketchers group with this drawing of my tooth brush and tooth paste... and a quote with the word 'teeth' in it...
Another work week done... weekend ahead looks like Sandy is going to dump water on us tomorrow... but is headed up North... ya'll get ready she's coming!

Oct25Art

Hammered out the by-laws for our 9-12 club... finally, have a document we agree on... yippee.  Met with Ron at Gilligan's for seafood... yummy hushpuppies, fried shrimp... ate WAY too much.
Got a Holiday catalog from Cheap Joe's, great deals on these hand-book watercolor journals... so I order 3 more... along with enough other goodies that I got free shipping.  I am a signature member of BEAs...  Buy Excessive Art Supplies...

Oct24Art

Too much water in my brush for the shadows on my hand... I'm trying to use real watercolor brushes and not just my trusty water brush in this journal.  Learning curve on controlling water.
Got a call from my daughter today, her husband got a job in Chicago... so they are moving to the windy city... WAAAAAH... too far away for my taste.

Oct23Art

The sweet gum tree has a few yellow leaves, even fewer red ones...still mostly green, or brown and on the ground.  I used to love reading Erma Bombeck in the newspaper, I miss her funny way of looking at life... who is doing this needed humor for today's women?
Is anyone else having trouble with the 'new' image uploader?  It hasn't worked for me in a couple of days now... I have just been using the old one, I suppose I should report the issue somehow.

Oct22Art

I think I'm really going to like the paper in this journal... handles watercolor very well.  It's going to take a bit of getting used to the format.
There are only a few leaves on my crepe myrtles that are showing color and I plucked them off since none have fallen off yet.  My dogwood tree is dropping it's leaves without ever actually turning red like they usually do.  So not much color around here this Fall guess we just didn't get enough rain this year.

Oct21Art

This is as big as my scanner can scan these pages... it is about a page and a half.  Found these date stamps, when I dug out the new sketchbook... thought I'd give them a try.

This is the other side, I kind of like the idea of writing more, and not having to worry about privacy issues.

Used photoshop (very badly) to stitch the two pages together... this was a pain in the neck and I seriously doubt I'll be doing this much.

Book 18 Title page

Decided to use my handbook watercolor journal for book 18.  It is 5x8 landscape format, that will be a challenge for me, especially working two page spreads.  Time I broke out of my boring rut and did something different for a change.

Oct20Art

Went to see Atlas Shrugged II today... it was very good even though they changed all the actors... it is one of my favorite books. 

Hockey game tonight.. so headed out for dinner and some hockey.

While shopping Amazon I came across this book on sketching... it is interesting and I'm working on the exercises as you can see on my final journal page.

I'm a fan of this fellow's blog and when he published this book I had to have it... It is available on Amazon... and a treat for the eyes... he is an amazing talent.  Check him out at http://mattiasa.blogspot.com

Oct19Art

Long week, looking forward to getting some rest this weekend.  My husband made spaghetti for dinner... it was so good, I ate way too much.
Only a couple of pages left in this sketchbook... not sure which sketchbook I'm going to try next.  I have a hand*book watercolor sketchbook in landscape format that I think I'm going to try.  I have a large book that I used for my trip to New Orleans and my imaginary trip to Greece, so I know I like the paper very much... scanning my pages may be a challenge as my scanner bed isn't long enough to handle a two page spread... and I'd need to stitch together the pages... about time I learned how to do that don't you think?