It's my blogversary today!!!

I have been blogging for several years on my other blog, but last year I decided to get back into drawing and sketching and I started a blog just for that. Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement! I'll be doing a giveaway... not sure what it will be yet... so stay tuned.

My blogversary is tomorrow!!!

My blogversary is tomorrow! And I won't be here! BUT, I do plan on doing a giveaway! Not for this particular piece of artwork but for one especially for this occasion. I'll post more next week.

Battle of the weeds...

Every year I have a battle of the weeds. Well, I start out with good intentions... I don't like to use chemicals in the back yard because of the dog and the veggie garden so I try battling them by hand. Of course after pulling several huge black trash bags full, I give up... There is just too much art to do to spend all my time outside pulling weeds! Think of all the drawing, sewing, beading, soldering etc. I could be doing instead!!!!

Fake flowers

I don;'t usually draw fake flowers but I was waiting for a Doctors appointment back in May and got there really early so I was drawing everything in the office. Although during the winter I may just find some fake flowers and draw them, that is if they look realistic...

I have a blogversary coming up! Stay tuned - I plan to have a giveaway...

My favorite plant store is going out of business

I recently popped into my favorite plant store and found out they were going out of business, what a bummer! This place was awesome! A perfect place to go in the winter when you're ready for spring - those of you that know me know this would be all winter long! You can read my journaling to learn more about the place - it was magical! If I had seen fairies there I don't think it would have surprised me! They would have been peeking around the plant pots and fluttering around the waterfall and pond.

And while I was there for one of my last visits I talked Stephen into selling me a clipping off this rare Dendrobium (probably misspelled) orchid. It's awesome! The leaves are like velvet and a very, dark green, almost black with red lines. It's gorgeous! He said it's very rare - I went online and looked through tons of photos of orchids but never ran across anything like this one.

Happy Fourth of July!!!!

Rose sketches

These are some sketches I did the other night. I have a couple of miniature rose bushes in my front garden and I picked one of the roses and put it in a tiny antique jar that I found ages ago. I think I need to color some of the sketches in, it looks really blah with just black and white...

Mini paintings

Here are some miniature little paintings that I did last night. I haven't decided if I'm going to trade these or not. I might put them in my Etsy shop for sale. But we won't get into the discussion if you can sell ATCs or ACEOs (Art Card Edition Original)....

I had every intention of getting up and going out to weed the yard - the weeds are taking over! - this morning, then got sidetracked painting some more little mini roses, and then visited an artist friends gallery and now I'm ready to paint and sketch!!! Maybe I'll pull weeds for awhile and then do some sketching and painting...

Paintings of Garden of the Gods, Colorado

I just got back from Garden of the Gods. I never get tired of that place! It's so gorgeous there! I painted these 3 ATCs/ACEOs, they turned out better than the larger sketches I did! I have discovered I cannot paint when I am hot, and hot it was!