The Face - Two Blue

Lately that Blue Cloud as cast it shadow over me. I have not been motivated to create. So what should you do. Well, I went to my moleskine and found these two uncolored drawings and added color to them. My blueness  came out in the form of color.

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.







IF: Intentions



Illustration Friday

My submission for Illustration Friday. Her intentions were unsure but she was keeping it to herself.

CED- Looking Out into the Night

My submission for Creative Everyday theme Night. I wish I was more creative but it just wasn't coming. So I found an old painting I started on. She's looking out into the window at night. When I lived up north I loved being up looking out into the street, watching the lightning, or snow, or people walking.

AEDM - Face 13 - I love Fall

I didn't have time for a story today. As a matter of fact I didn't have time to finish adding color because I didn't want to ruin my drawing. Instead of paint I used pencils and markers for color.

Face 8 - Regretful

Sometimes we are regretful for the decisions that we have made, but we can only pray that everything will turn out well.

Face 6 - Gentle



March gently with the shadows, yet breath the wind.



I have a poetry board in my office at school which I allow children to create while their waiting. There is one student who loves the board. This is her short poem.

Face 3 - Je suis une femme



I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let my husband forget he's a man. Do you remember that commercial for Enjoli perfume?



Je peux ramener chez le bacon, faire frire jusqu'à dans une poêle et jamais laisser mon mari oublier que c'est un homme. Cause, je suis une femme - w-o-m-a-n.

Je suis une femme

IF: Stripes-Face 2 - Caught

Ok you caught me!

We'll from my photo of new sketch book you can tell that I had already started with drawings. No color for this one. Maybe I should add blue to background.

IF:Cultivate

It's been awhile since I've submitted for Illustration Friday. I've tried to cultivate to being a more green person. As I slowly make changes it makes you more aware of how much further you need to go. And then there are the people who just don't get it. I shop at the Military Commissary, so I went in with all of my recyclable green bags, do you know that the baggers were putting my groceries in plastic bags and placing them in my green bags. I had to make them stop using the plastic. I couldn't believe that they didn't get it.

IF:Mail

My submission for Illustration Friday. A little doodle on some mail that I had on my desk. At the time when I did this I was on the phone and put on hold. My mail was before me. Happy Holidays!

AEDM - Seeing Butterflies

We have a wonderful Butterfly Conservatory in our vicinity that I love. The butterflies are free to fly and if you stand still they will land on you. Although I am off on Saturday's my day was full so as usual my creativeness had to wait for the end of the day.

Face 15 - Disappointed

So I didn't like face 14, so I'm not going to post it here. Visit my other blog to see it. My husband is getting upset that I'm being so tunnel vision about what I'm doing.

Face 9 - African in the Night

I couldn't get the lighting the way I wanted it and her face doesn't look as natural as I intended. This is my critique.

Face 6 - Thoughtful

I don't think her eyes are right.

IF: Old Fashioned

She wanted to break things off so she wrote him a letter.

Letter writing has become very old fashioned with the invention of technology email and texting. I used to loved getting a hand written letter from family members and friends. If email had been around 25 years ago I would not have cherished letters from my mother one year before she passed away unexpectedly. I can't remember the last time I received a hand written letter.Do you? (I'm not talking about the generic family letters you get at Christmas either).

IF: Giant

There's a red giant alien after me.

Here is my submission for Illustration Friday. I couldn't think of anything to do until today.I'm sure that there were many ways to go with this,but this is where I was lead.

June Challenge - #21 Images of Me

June Challenge - # 19 Lost in the Stars

My husband was watching Wolfman, which I didn't want to watch, so this is what I did.

Phenomenal Woman I want to be!

I haven't been doing any art work lately. I did do a journal entry for my flickr, but it was so personal I didn't feel confortable sharing it with everyone. Maybe when my life is no longer on hold I can be more open. When I am going through life's valleys I am ready to get back to the peak. Where everything is going according to plan. But for a while now things are not going to plan. I feel like I'm in a bottle. I can't move around I can think outside of my limits. I'm not in a good place to be creative. So last night I did do to pictures, one for Illustration Friday the word was citrus. The second picture was of a African American woman. I called her the "Phenomenal Woman" for some reason Maya Angelo's words were in my mind as I painted her. I think that its a little better than some of my other acrylic skin tones. I still need lots of practice. When things turn around I hope I can take an art class. I really wish it would happen before June. Oh well, stay positive, keep holding on. The one thing that I am keeping up dispite my lack of motivation is reading. Currently I'm trying to get thru the DaVinci Code. I only chose to read it because I wanted to see what the hub-bub was about. I can't get into it, but my goal is to finish each book that I have selected on my 50 Book Challenge.