I'm not really starting the EDM list as so many are doing along with Danny. I just got some new walking shoes a couple of days ago. I could not believe how worn down the pair I was wearing was...huge holes, nearly clear through to my toes! These new ones feel like springs, almost. I … Continue reading New Walking Shoes!
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Extra-Ordinary Lines
The thing that's so captivating about lines is that they have the power to transform the most ordinary of subjects, into something truly extraordinary! Color has this power as well. But there's something mesmerizing about following the contours of a clematis vine growing up a mailbox that seems to alter what's before me into a … Continue reading Extra-Ordinary Lines
Super Dads
Happy Father's Day to a couple of terrific dads in my life...my own dear father (above)... ...and my wonderful husband. Unfortunately, I have no drawing or painting of my father-in-law, another awesome dad. I need to do something about that!
Ready Made Frames
Sometimes I look around me and see so many drawings and paintings clamoring to be put down on paper! It's actually making me quite crazy lately!!! I think it's a pattern: during the busiest times of my life (like right now with end of school year, graduation, family events piling up on top of each … Continue reading Ready Made Frames
Penciled Friends
For some strange reason, I was struck with a desire to draw with a pencil. It's not my usual thing. But I enjoyed it here, drawing some friends of ours at a cook-out. I have many pencils...graphite sticks, water-soluble graphite, wood-encased pencils, solid graphite pencils, grease pencils, charcoal pencils, color pencils, etc. I love breaking … Continue reading Penciled Friends
Three? Really?
We are now a three car family. Whoa. And even though this happened two months ago...I still walk out into our driveway and wonder...Who's here? Then I remember, all three are ours, we have three driving people in our family, and it won't be long 'til we have four. Four people who drive, that is, … Continue reading Three? Really?
Rhodos As High As…
Directly behind our house is a rhododendron bush. It's blooming like crazy right now! It's huge...reaching up beyond our high back deck. As I sat in the yard to draw it, I kept humming and thinking: The rhodo's as high as an elephant's eye...and it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky! Well, … Continue reading Rhodos As High As…
What A Difference Paper Makes!
It's Strawberry Time 'round these parts! Yummy fresh strawberries right from the farm...there's nothin' better! But the paper you choose to paint them on...it makes such a difference!!! I'm actually showing you these in reverse order of having created them. They are both watercolor sketches of some of the berries we got recently from a … Continue reading What A Difference Paper Makes!
What Was I Thinking…
Our Spring Break is now over...I'm sending the kids off to school as we speak I type. All in all it was a wonderful week with kids home, being with both families, Holy Week services, multiple egg hunts and painting the hallway. Ever the optimist, I began what I thought would be a fairly simple … Continue reading What Was I Thinking…
Petal Showers
"Hey mom! It's snowing or hailing outside! Did you know this?" my freshman-in-high-school son hollers to me from the living room. Dashing to the window, we all said in response to him, "That's not snow! Those are petals!" It was raining petals from all the pear and plum trees in our neighborhood. It looked something … Continue reading Petal Showers