Draw, Draw, Draw - I'm trying to keep up with mottto

Some months ago I promised to post my Red Chairs from my Sketch-a-Day book. So here they are. Although my mind is made up to draw everyday, my time requires me to do something different, but I have been drawing. These are some of my current drawings from sketchbook.

daughter Zoe

Books Read 2012

Books Read 2012

Yeah I completed my goal of reading 65 books for 2012. Hopefully in 2013 I'll reach 70.

• 67. The KJV Bible
• 66. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• 65. The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory
• 64. The Last Lecture by Randy Paush
• 63. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
• 62. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• 61. Crush by Gary Paulsen
• 60. A Thousand Splendid Suns bt Khaled Housseini
• 59. Brain Rules by John Medina
• 58. Late Bloomers by Brendan Gill
• 57. Switch by Chip Heath
• 56. Your Money Counts by Howard Dayton
• 55. Forks Over Knives the Cookbook by Del Sroufe
• 54. Living Organizes by Sandra Felton
• 53. 30 Lessons For Living by Karl Pillemer
• 52. Room by Emma Donoghue
• 51. Over My Dead Body by Kate Klise
• 50. Amphigorey Also by Edward Gory
• 49. 1,000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn Sokol
• 48. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• 47. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
• 46. Birds of Prey by wilbur Smith
• 45. The Lost Gate by Oscard Scott Card
• 44. How Green was My Valley by Richard LLewellyn
• 43. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
• 42. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
• 41. Hope is Contagious by Ken Hutcherson
• 40. The House That Cleans Itself by Mindy Starks Clark
• 39. What the Most successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam
• 38. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
• 37. How to Knit a Love Song by Rachael Herron
• 36. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• 35. The Paradise Prophecy by Robert G. Brown
• 34. Face of Betrayal by Lis Wiehl
• 33. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
• 32. Life in Pause by K.E. Rodgers
• 31. The Green Trap by Ben Bova
• 30. Under Heaven by Guy Kay
• 29. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• 28. Monster by Frank Peretti
• 27. Dear Photograph by Taylor Jones
• 26. Moon Runner by Carolyn Marsden
• 25.Once A Runner by Joh Parker
• 24. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
• 23. The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
• 22. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
• 21. Pharos by Alice Thompson
• 20. A Movie and a book by David Wagner
• 19. Curly Girl by Lorraine Massey
• 18. Absolute Perfection of Crime by Tanguy Viel
• 17. Chicken Justice by Steve Coffman
• 16. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• 15. Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
• 14. Mama Said by Helen Watson
• 13. Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift
• 12. Among the Missing by Morag Joss
• 11. Black Monday by R. scott Reiss
• 10. Before Versailles by Karleen Koen
• 9. I'm Half Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
• 8. A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
• 7. Persuasion by Jane Austen
• 6. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laura Rigler
• 5. ThunderSnow by Cindy Borgne
• 4. Definitely Not Mr.Darcy by Karen Doornebos
• 3. It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider by Jim Henson
• 2. The Glass Case: A Short Story by Kristin Hannah
• 1. The Keeper: Short Story by Ted Dekkar

My Motto for 2013 - Draw,draw,draw

Student from school

This is my moto for 2013 -  Sketch, sketch, sketch; Draw, draw, draw. This young man is so inspiring. In the words of Galaxy Quest "Never give up, never surrender. Here are a few of my sketches.

Pen & Watercolor

Men's Sunday Shoes

Finished Sketchbook #4

Here are a few of the last sketches I did so I can start on my new ones. I still have other sketchbooks that aren't complete, but they are specific themes. Hopefully I will come back later and add color

IF: New

Illustration Friday-New

After I turned 40  I learned something new. I took violin lessons for two years. I had always wanted to learn to play an instrument. I loved learning to play. This illustration commemorates that memory. You never should let yourself get too old to try new things.

Hurry up - already!

So I am trying to hurry up and finish old sketchbook, before starting new one. It's so hard to resist. This is what I drew on page 99. It needs color! 6 more pages to go.

My Merry Christmas: Art Stuff

My daughter gave me two art books and I got a sketchbook with rendr paper.

IF: Miss Whiskers - A Real Cat Lady

 

I am trying to jump back from my long absence from Illustration Friday. The prompt word was whiskers. I had this old drawing in my sketchbook, so I added color.

 

Something

In my on going desire to post something, this is what I created. No theme just something.


So Sad

Brown and Blonde

Arms Open

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: Trees

Guidance Office

 I've been stalking CED, but unable to submit anything because I have been so busy. However since it is the last day of October I did want to show off my trees I made for school bulletin board. I made a non-traditional fall tree for Guidance Office and a traditional tree for the Clinic, which is my office. The last is a watercolor I painted a while back, but I love it.

Clinic

Water Color that I painted

Pain and Lessons

If you cannot love the pain - You can at least love the lessons it teaches. I found this saying in book I read called Gargoyle.

Where Have I Been?

Where have I been? Good Question! Summer came and took me away, but now I am back. As with most of my summers I think I will have all of this time for creativity since I have the summer off, but I was swept away into so many other things that I created nothing of beauty, a few things I did like but nothing to make me feel accomplished.
What I did do was buy myself a "One Sketch a Day" visual journal. I was not always faithful to it, but I did try. Here are some of the sketches I made.  I'm Not happy with the quality of paper. My colors bleed through.



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There's more to come. See my red chairs