Dollar Tree Sketchbook Tour

 This is my first sketchbook tour. It was purchased from Dollar Tree in 2008, completed in 2022.
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Wondering: Sketchbook Giant

In life you never know what tomorrow will bring. Another painted page from my Giant Sketchbook.

Visions Of My Childhood: Sketchbook Giant

Here's a page from my Sketchbook Giant. It's where I just go with the flow and paint with no thought in mind. No perfectionism allowed. I have a long way to go to fill up this sketchbook. Click here to see my  Favorite Painting from this sketchbook. It the first one with the woman in Turquoise.

What, Another Sketchbook

So it's official I can't help myself. I found this daily devotional book which I could not resist from purchasing. I love the color and engraving carve into leather. My purpose was to draw in it. Hoping that the devotional topic would be the inspiration for the drawing. I love people who can stick to drawing in one sketchbook everyday until completed, but I've found out that I am not that type of person. Eventually my journals get completed. So I am going to do me!

Completed Sketchbooks

CED: Poetry Week 4

My submission for Creative Everyday the theme is poetry.

A look,
read as a gentle whispering breath
saying
let your mind hear the wind, 
and the water blue
hurrying deep from the sky.
by Fourborne

CED: Poetry/ My Daily Face/ Something?

My weekly submission for Creative Everyday, the theme being poetry which  is not exactly my forte, but I'm giving it a shot. The drawing is not that great, but I was trying to focus on the words.

dreams were to bless,
time followed through the dark shadow,
like music in the night, vanishing in the morning.
by Fourborne

Daily Face: Student portrait

Something?

I had a good day at work. The time went by so fast. I drew my daily face portrait and scribble this woman on a scratch pad she's something.

CED: Poetry

Look inside my eyes 

and see

the very heart of me

My joys 

My fears

My hopes

and tears

Look inside my eyes

and you'll see

the deepest part of me   

                 by Fourborne


The theme for Creative Everyday is poetry. I was looking for a poem to go with my painting The Look  nothing really said what I wanted so I attempted my own little simple poem. I am not a poet!

Daily Face: April 4th and Sketchbooks

 My goal this year is to try and complete some of my sketchbooks. One of favorite artist Adebanji Alade states that when you start a sketchbook you should have a completion date set so it would encourage you to draw everyday. So here is a picture of the sketchbooks that I have started and have not completed, this picture does not include my Froggy Sketchbook. So this picture does not look encouraging. Now let's see what sketchbooks I have finished.

Uncompleted Sketchbooks

Completed Sketchbooks

Blue Girl Watercolor

I decided that since I did a boy in blue, that I should do a girl also.

Painting in My Sketchbook Giant

This is a painting from my giant mix media sketchbook. I generally just paint it. I have no plans when I start with a blank page. It's a good creative exercise for me especially since I'm afraid of color.

Sunday Face: I am Always Behind

I try to keep up with my Sunday faces. I always draw them just never post them on the same day. So once again I have a backlog. I'm not posting all of them, just the ones I like.

Blue Boy Watercolor

Blue is one of my favorite colors, in fact Blue was my maiden last name. I decided to do a watercolor and keep it simple.

Happy to be me!

Last night I learned something about myself. I am not a person who can stick to one style of art. I like everything and my mood changes. So I'm going to stop trying to be like others and be myself as I have done with the rest of my life. Here is some of my art musings from yesterday and I'm happy.

New Sketchbook: The Cresent Rendr

My very first page in my Rendr Sketchbook by Cresent. I am excited to see if I can let go.They promote themselves as the sketchbook with the No Show Thru Paper.

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

Sketchbook One: More Pages

A mother to love

Sitting quietly

I could really use a wish

Just playing around with sketching, trying to finish my sketchbook one.

Back in the Flow: Sketchbook One

I struggle to complete my sketchbooks. Lately I've been obsess trying to complete my "Sketchbook One." My goal is to get it finished so that I can move on to some new sketchbooks I wanted to try with the no-bleed paper. Here are two of my sketches.

CED: Festive - I'm Dreaming

Here is my submission for the first week of December's Creative Everyday. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. I know a lot of the northerners are tired of snow, but I miss it. I grew up in New Jersey and lived in Colorado for a while, living in the south leaves me dreaming of snow. It makes everything more festive. However not a blizzard, I've been through that before.

Dreaming

AEDM: Day 28, 29,30 The End

Day 28 Am I Blue?

It's the end of the Art Everyday Month. I didn't get to post because of holidays. Thanksgiving was at our home this year. My husband has 6 siblings, some their children, 3 of our daughters, plus grand nieces, nephews plus mother-in-law, my house was full. We had great fun and fellowship. Here are the last of my creations.

Day 29 Send in the clowns!

Day 30 Sunday Face

AEDM: I fell off the wagon Day 19,20, & 21

Day 19

I was doing great keeping up, but life got in the way of creating. My two Blue Girls are still unfinished, although I tried to work on them. My heart wasn't into it. So I did another bird, a really ugly catumpkin idea, and practiced drawing student portraits in my giant sketchbook.

Day 20

Day 21