Huge Zentangle

I can't believe I haven't posted for a whole week!!! So much for trying to post daily... It's been a busy week. I've been working and studying for work. I did this full spread Zentangle for 4 days while I worked, 4 mornings anyway. Hopefully I'll finish my studying this week and be able to get back to more art! Have a great week!

Twinchies

This is a spread I did in the moley I just finished. The squares are 2" x 2". It was a little challenging at first to draw this small.

Finished another Moleskine!!!

I just finished another Moley!!! And I have one waiting to rip the plastic off of. I also recently got the deal of the century!!! I went to Borders to get my new sketchbook and they had the watercolor Moleskines on sale for $4!!!! Well naturally I had to buy every one they had, unfortunately they only had 3! When I got home I called the other store but some other artist had already discovered the great price. Ah well...

Hope you have an awesome day!

Shopping...

I recently took one of my daughters shopping, and while she shopped I stood around and sketched. Yeah, I get a few weird looks but I don't care. This was a fun store to sketch at as they had all kinds of things besides clothes. I loved this rabbit! I sketched him really quickly because I was blocking the aisle ~ I think he turned out pretty good!

Ready for Spring!

Okay, enough of this winter crap! I am ready for spring!!! I bought these seeds last week, I can't even start planting until May 10th or later but I was just doing some wishful thinking!

We have barely had any snow this winter, they haven't said the word but I guess our drought is still going... The mountains get lots of snow but down here on the front range we've hardly gotten any. If this keeps up we'll be a high desert.

A new book on sketching

I just got this book from Northlight ~ "The Art of Travel with a Sketchbook" by Mari Le Glantin Keis. I love it! Mari's sketches are wonderful! Some of her workshop participants also have work in it. I was so inspired I just had to sketch the cover!

I'm almost done with another Moleskine, only 8 more spreads to go!!! When I get this close to finishing one, that's all I want to do is sketch. Unfortunately, I have some other artwork that I have to do so I'll have to squeeze in sketching along the way. Luckily, work was a little slow on Wednesday so I got several sketches done...

Have a great weekend!

Roses and more

I have been busy sketching and painting, just haven't posted every day. Here are some more roses and a sketch while I waited for one of my kids at the dentist's office. I decided to play around with my paints on the second roses, just to see the watercolor merge ~ it always fascinates me!

It's supposed to be 68 degrees today!!! Well, I just had to take the day off! I'm going to go out and do some sketching/painting and then come home and work on some collage pages for swaps.

Enjoy your day and take time to do some sketching. :D

Garden of the Gods painting/sketch

Thought maybe you were getting tired of roses. This is one of my favorite places ~ Garden of the Gods. This is about 4 miles from my house, unfortunately I can't see it out my window. My daughter and I went to sketch on location on Monday. I've been wanting to do this since last summer, sometimes it's just hard to make time to get out... This took me about 45 minutes, I did it in pencil, then painted it and then did pen and ink. I really like this sketch/painting and I'm definitely going to more of this! I should make it a goal to get out and do on location sketching once a week... I'll let you know.