Another sketch I did a few months ago...

This is another quick sketch I did over a month ago.  I'm having a hard time getting motivated these days...  There's so much I need to be doing...

Holy cow it's been awhile!!!

Hi all, well it's been awhile!!!  Things have been a little hectic, my husband is sick and needs a bone marrow transplant so I have little time for art these days...  your prayers would be appreciated.

Finishing up another Moleskine

I'm finishing up a Moleskine I started back in June of 2010!  I just finished shading a Zentangle (tm) inspired spread.  It takes so long to finish one because I usually have 3 or 4 going at once... one I leave in my car, because I've gotten stuck too many times without one, and there are about 3 more floating around the house...  I'm hoping to get back to sketching this coming year.  Thanks for stopping by, now it's your turn, go sketch something!

A quick sketch

Finally!  A quick sketch of a pear.  I have to sketch these fast before the kids eat them!  

I love to sketch pears, I don't care for the taste or texture, but I do love to sketch them.  I'm weird, I know.  :D

I'm trying to get back into the sketching habit, it seems there is just so many other kinds of art to do too!  Some days I have so many ideas running through my head that I get nothing done!  Which is why I need to at least sketch, then I feel like I accomplished something creative.

Thanks for stopping by!  If I don't post before then, have a Very Merry Christmas!  :D

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