Finally Completed Sketchbook One

Finished Sketchbook

2008 Drawing

When I took the 2007 pledge to myself to start drawing again I picked up a sketchbook I purchased in 2006. I started drawing in it and thought the drawings were ugly. I wanted my sketchbook to look like those I saw on other artist blogs. So I stopped drawing in it and would only draw on loose paper because if I made a mistake I could throw it away. I gave the sketchbook to my daughter Zoe, who likes to draw also. Years later I found it in her room and it was the same as I gave it to her so I picked it back up again. Today I can say that it is finished. To see my first drawing click here Fairy. These are my final drawings.

2015 Drawing

2015 Drawing

Final Page

CED: Past, Present, Future

Still working through my first sketchbook. I went  back and added some pages to cover really ugly drawings but they are still visible if you flip the page. The first is an attempt at a fairy in 2006.

 I would like to think that my drawing has vastly improved. This is a quick fairy I drew today to cover up the ugly one. The last sleeping fairy is one I submitted to CED in 2011.

 And I did another what do you see drawing. At first I saw nothing, I rotated the page. I added in some extra color. Then I was able to see the birds in the trees.

If there is any lesson that I can pass on to anyone about past present and future. It would be: what ever you are facing in your life, LIVE for today, the past can't be undone, and who knows what the future may bring.

CED: Past, Present, Future

What do I see?

As usual I'm behind, even though its a New Year. The theme from Creative Everyday is Past, Present, Future and as I was decluttering my  office/studio I came across my first journal that I started in 2006 which I never finished, nor did it have any color. I decided to finish it, add color to it, and fix my ugly drawings, and write a few words.
In the past I would paint on a piece of paper then illustrate what I saw coming out of the paint. I would never do anything like that in a journal for fear of making a mistake. Voila I painted directly into my old journal and drew what I saw:

Dream Out Loud

Create Something - Post Something

I feel as though life won't let me off the treadmill. Everything is going so fast and I just don't have time. So tonight I jumped off and picked up my red watercolor. This is what I created. LADIES IN RED.

CED: Mixed Media

It's Never Too Late
 When I saw the prompt for this month I was not excited. I am not good at adding different things and coming up with something beautiful. However I did give it a try. I used a old calendar book from 2008, a face that I painted on a library catalog card, old book pages, scrapbook paper (which I completed covered up) and some scrapbook stickers.

This is what I came up with. Definitely not my best but I tried. My scanner would scan the entire page so I attempted to take a picture of it.


Creative Everyday - Mixed Media
It's never too late to find your true talent,
 to imagine,
to keep exploring or
 to marvel at a butterfly.







Tuesdays Face

The Face Series

I didn't use my usual pattern for The Face. I drew it free hand and used watercolor, paint, and computer to color this one. I don't know if the exaggerated neck looks right with this technique.

Eyes Right

I was not able to get her eyes right. So I decided to leave it as is for now.

IF: Acrobat

She loved the feeling of flying over the crowd with the greatest of ease

Currently there has not been enough time in my life to create so I stole some and attempted to create.

June Challenge - June 19 Polhamus Siblings

Although I had already started on this portrait I did finish in in June so I am adding it to the challenge. This is my first comissioned painting.

Painting - Snow Joy

Yeah! I went in my studio and painted on a Monday Night. I didn't watch the football game because if I want more time to paint I will have to make time for it.

This current painting is called Snow Joy. As a child I loved the snow. I lived up North and I can remember sleigh rides, snowball fights, and of course making snowmen. When I was a teenager I loved to sit in the upstairs window and watch it falling. I live in Colorado after I was married, the snow was so beautiful in the morning before it was touched by humans and their machines. I didn't mind walking my children to school in the morning. But sad to say I live in Georgia now it's not a place where you know snow will fall. We did get snow briefly the beginning of January 2009 and it brought back all the wonderful "snow joy".

Painting Today

Today it has been cold and rainy a perfect day for art. I had time to go sit in my studio and paint

My lastest painting : Mother and Daughter

I promised myself that I would find more time to paint but unfortunately that has not happened. I love looking and reading other bloggers who create I always feel so inspired but when I get home reality sets in too many other things to accomplish. I at least try to get some drawing in. This is a picture that I've been wanting to paint and I finally took some me time forsaken everything else. I think the little girl still needs more work.

Work In Progress and Uncertainty

Lately i have not felt like myself. My inner self keeps asking who are you and what are you doing? I haven't been satisfied with any of my drawings. This painting is a work-in-progress but I don't have the time to do anymore work on it. Do you have moments in your life when you are just uncertain. To most of the people who know me I am always together.

IF: Clique

As Antoinette walked by she could hear their whispers. She thought to herself, I am no longer in. It seems so strange not to be part of them anymore. I wonder if their is anyone out there who will accept me for who I am inside. inspiration from http://www.flickr.com/photos/fordesign/269667833/

IF: Island

As she sat by the edge of the island her mind and body was being swept away with the sea.

My Hand Painted "FAUX" Hardwood Cement Floors

This is one of my projects that I finished over the summer break. I really would like to have hardwood floors but that is currently not in my budget since my husband and I are trying to become debt-free (Dave Ramsey fan). I couldn't stand the old tile that was on the floor anymore so I pulled it up and painted my cement floor to look like wood. I think I did a great job. One day I will have the cash to do the real thing but for now I am happy. NO MORE UGLY TILE.