A few of my older paintings

These are a couple of my paintings I did a few years ago, I'm feeling the urge to get back to painting....  Now I just have to find room to set up my drawing table...

New sketches

Finally getting around to posting the sketch I did last week.  Ugh!  This is what happens when you don't sketch for awhile.  The leaf is from this morning.

Yesterday I spent 4 hours raking leaves!!!  I am so sore!  Since we have a forest in our back yard the thing to do is rake all the leaves onto a tarp and drag it back into the forest to dump it.  (the neighbors trained us).  Yesterday I took back 8 tarp loads!!!  I can't imagine having to bag all that!!!  And now of course this morning you can't even tell we raked because a ton more leaves fell!  And there's probably some still on the trees that have yet to fall!

And they're saying we have a huge storm coming....  Supposedly Hurricane Sandy is going to make landfall just to the east of us in New Jersey, we're in Philly.  OH JOY!!!!  I am so tempted to pack up my car and head west!!!  LOL!  I hope it's not as bad as they're saying....   They're calling it Frankenstorm because it's supposed to hit around Halloween, or sooner.  Of course all of this is just guessing....  Love how they blow it all out of proportion before it even happens.  Oh well, better safe than sorry I guess.

Has it really been that long??!!!!

I can't believe I haven't posted on here since April!!!  That's terrible!  I do apologize for my absence!  I have been sketching, really I have.  Maybe not as much as I should be...

I did this one just yesterday.  I got another great deal on roses, $5 for 25!!!!  I couldn't resist - I love to sketch and paint roses!  I also did some ACEOs that I still have to scan.

I'll try and do better keeping my blog up to date!

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully next time I'll have something new posted for you to see.

My finished Moleskines

I saw a photo on Pinterest where someone had posted their Moleskine sketchbooks so I thought I would share my finished ones. 


I have about 3 more going, and I have other sketchbooks as well, these are just the Moleskines.  I love their large sketchbooks, but I really wish they would change the watercolor books to the same layout as the sketchbooks.  Since they haven't, I've started making my own watercolor sketchbooks.


Anyway, thought I'd share.  Hope you're inspired.  :D

Sketchbook Project - Ltd Edition - I'm Done!!!

I'm done!!!!  Yay!!!  I really had to push it to get this done in time!  It's due to be mailed in by the 30th!  This is my second Sketchbook Project that I've done, I did them back to back.  It was fun but I'm ready for a break.


I had a hard time getting started on this one in the dead of winter, and realized how much I like sketching nature and flowers, that are alive.  :)  Of course neither of these sketches are of that but these are my two favorite ones out of my book.  


So now I need to get it packed up and sent off to New York.


If you've never done the Sketchbook Project you really should!  Anything goes, sketching, mixed media....  No nudity of profanity obviously.  It's fun to challenge yourself!


And now I can kick back and sketch without pressure.  Thanks so much for stopping by and now it's your turn, get to sketching!

A new journal

Hi all! I've been taking some of the lovely Ms. Suzi Blu's classes online and this is the front of a journal I just finished up! I do bookbinding but this time I followed Goog's tutorial. Should be fun to work in! I plan on doing more collage work in this one!

I've also been working on The Sketchbook Project Ltd Edition book and need to post some pics of those sketches.

Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome week!

Starting Sketchbook Project Ltd Edition

Hey peeps! Got my new Sketchbook Project book and revamped it. This is a fabric cover, isn't this the coolest fabric?!! I'm having a hard time getting inspired to sketch in the dead of winter, it took me awhile to think of what my first sketch would be. I have since done a little watercolor wash over these and done 2 more sketches. I'll have to scan them and show you!

Thanks so much for stopping by, now it's your turn, go sketch something!

Sketchbook Project 2012 - finished!!!

Here's my last spread in my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project 2012! I sketched the wrong book though! I highly recommend Danny Gregory's "Creative License!" That's what really got me sketching and improving so much! One of these days I'll have to post a pic of what my sketching was like before. And of course anything by Cathy "Kate" Johnson! She has several books and is just such an inspiration!

Today in the mail I got my new sketchbook for the Limited Edition so I need to revamp it and get busy!

Thanks for stopping by now go do some art! And I will see if I can find my muse!