Red tree

Ever green

Droopy grass

Fire grass

Six tree

Tree four

Forest

Foot study

The tree wished it could be a different kind of tree

Weeds

Dog

Cat

Husband

A little doodle of the man in my life.

Circle trees swirly

Harmony Tool is new again...

pink

Mira and I went to the zoo 

and I tried to take a bunch 

of pictures of animals - 

and then my camera died

so now I am going to draw as many as I can

Here is the first guy...

gremlins

apparently the gremlins in my life
like to all get together
and come out all at once.

and they really like winter months.

I read a little story about gremlins -
you know the ones, the voices in your head telling you
all the bad things you are doing wrong in your life...
and sometimes they are louder than others.

I think I must really love my gremlins
because they have had all the attention lately.

and so nothing has been getting done.

I am so tired of them. 

I read that if you give them a face, that can help.

So in my favorite tool, I doodled one tonight.

I think s/he is beautiful.
I haven't decided gender -
because sometimes it is both...

but what you can't see is that under those kind eyes...
is just MEANness.

more like this:

things I wouldn't even think of anyone else in the world - this gremlin calls me...
tells me I am worthless
tells me I can't do anything

If I have been a bad friend lately, I am so sorry.
There has been much going on in my head...

so I am breaking up with my gremlin -
giving s/he some time to just be.

and let's see how that goes.

Hope it will mean more work on the art and more blogging.

birds and mural plan

My sister-in-law is having a baby
and she asked me to do a mural for her nursery!

I am so excited because she wants a tree!

here is a sketch of it...

a big tree on one wall with simple leaves and birds in the brances

she also could have a few little birds on top of the window...

and a few little butterflies with the little trails...

still need to plan where on the walls these go...

 some sample butterfly sketches

and a few of the birds that could sit it the branches...

and I got so excited, that I made her a few little birds in my messy way...

maybe she can use them in the bathroom or something :)

sketchbook - for the library...

long time no post 

(at almost a month...geeze...)

gladly it isn't because I haven't been doing art...

I just wanted to wait until I finished my little project.

Some friends and I are working on a book for the 2011 Sketchbook project.

I finished my pages tonight.

The theme is travel...

and I hope we will get to travel to see our little book!

I found that while working on this, I wanted to try new things and play. 

Not just draw, like I usually do in my sketchbooks. 

It was a really fun project!

My pages are based on my trip to Wisconsin this summer.

I used drawings and photos from the trip to create...

pen and water color crayons

pen

mixed media 

photo copy, tape, pen, acrylic paint 

(I think that is all...)

mixed media

map, tape, pen, acrylic

pen and paint and photographs

pen and acrylic

photo. pen and paint

pen and photos

pen... and not my best work, but it's a sketchbook...

pen and paper and paint

pen

pen and photo

sketches from the train

I haven't posted from the sketchbook in a while - 

and I am procrastinating on posting the new stuff, 

I will distract you with drawings from the train ride in the last few weeks. 

These are the better of a few rides.