Old bobbins

Here's a sketch I just finished this afternoon. What is it about old things, from when we were little that seems to fascinate us? Is it because they remind us of a simpler times? I think so. I love to sew and I love to collect anything to do with sewing. Going through sewing boxes from years ago at estate sales is just fascinating! Old buttons, bits of lace, hooks and snaps, and of course old wooden bobbins ~ treasures to behold!

Buttons! ~ EDM challenge #89

Another sketch that surprised me! When I first sat down to draw this I thought "no way, I've completely lost my mind now...". But I did it! I just gave up trying to draw every single button. :)

I was trying to think of button quotes to use as a border but only came up with two, tried a search with no luck so if you know of some other button quotes please let me know!

Now if only I can keep doing one sketch a day I will have this moleskin really quickly!

Another sketch...

I have to share this, I just finished drawing it! I was really intimidated and thought I should really do it with a pencil but decided I would try it with just a pen and it turned out a lot better than I thought it would!

The group over at Everyday Matters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/everydaymatters/ is so inspiring! I'm thinking it would be really cool if I could fill this moleskin in one month, we'll see.... Come on over and join us!

Another Sketch

I sat down to crochet last night and decided to sketch and journal instead. I had fun with this, drawing the bottom right sketch of the stitches was a bit challenging and I ended up cheating a little, but that's my creative license.

I wish I had 4 clones! One could do all the cooking and cleaning, one could sew all the time, one could draw all the time, one could do mixed media art... okay I would definitely need more than just 4 clones. Wouldn't that be awesome?!!! I guess that's not an option so I'll have to do with just one of me and squeeze as much as I can into the time I have, maybe if I sleep less....

New sketches

These are some recent sketches I've been working on. The bottom one was inspired by Andrea Joseph ~ I visited her blog the other day and was thinking "how does she do such awesome work with just a ballpoint pen?!" I had to give it a shot, not as good as her drawings but not as bad as I thought.....

The middle ones are spoons I did really quick on a slow day at work.

The top one I did this morning before I ate the pie, you gotta keep traditions alive you know! :D

Merry Christmas!!!

I just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!!! And also thank you for your constant encouragement and inspiration! It has been so cool to make new cyber friends, even though we've never met in person. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and an inspirational, prosperous and artistic New Year! And may you have lots of time to fill those moleskins! :D

Finished my moleskin!!!

I just finished my first moleskin sketchbook!!! This one runs from July through December. I have 5 or 6 sketchbooks going at once so it usually takes a long time to finish one ~ this one is the fastest I've ever finished one. I took this to a lot of appointments and sketched the waiting time away. A lot of the sketches are not that great and I would like to rip them out or glue pics over them but I think I'll just leave them as a reminder to myself that I'm only human. :)

After the snowman picture I went back and finished some blank pages here and there and added some more sketches of spoons to the very last page and envelope just so I could say that I had finished it, I know, how anal is that? LOL! And of course I already have a new moleskin that I started the next day. Wonder what adventures it will lead me on?

EDM challenge #191 - paper money

I'm back to doing EDM challenges, this is one from a few weeks ago, draw some paper money. George is off center but this is totally done in pen and ink. I decided I need to start putting more color into my sketches so I used a green that was way too bright and I toned it down with purple. This is one of those prompts that I thought "oh you've got to be kidding, that's too hard." I just started working from the outside in and obviously left out some details otherwise it would take years. Years ago at an art museum back east we saw a small drawing/painting that an artist had done a long time ago. It looked so realistic that at the time they accused him of just pasting the bill on the paper. They even looked at it with a magnifying glass ~ the artist insisted he painted it. I think it was proven years later that he had in fact painted it. I had totally forgotten about that until I did this challenge. Mine of course is not even close to the real thing.