EDM 6

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Draw a well loved object...

You can see more EDM sketches here...
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summer of color

The inspiration colors this week were wild and reckless  sherbert so here's the mandala I ended up with.... the colors somehow made me think of peacock feathers so here goes....

 
 oh and I have a page of EDM sketches in my new moleskin notebook. The pages are so thin there will be no watercolor and even these scrapbooking pens show thru on the other side of the page so maybe I will glue pages together to make them thicker. I just don't feel like going back to pencil...
the challenges were to sketch a lamp, your mug and a purse or bag. I went alittle overboard on the detail of my leather bag , I'll try to loosen up on the next one...

A quick sketch

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I gave up my black sharpie and watercolors for just a green marker yesterday. Then I wet it with plain water to blend a bit. I overdid it in spots and lost my line entirely but I wasn't shooting for perfection....

I have been obsessed with following Danny Gregory....well, his blog, not him of course, (sorry for the lack of a link but the computer virus was apparently NOT gone so I'm back on the Ipad and I don't know how to add links fron Flickr). He is starting to work through the EveryDayMatters challenges so I thought I'd sketch along and try to do the challenges in order too.(He has a link to all of them on one of his recent posts if you want to play along as well). So, I added an even quicker sketch of the sandals I wear everyday, well of one actually, as sketching your shoes was the first ADM challenge. I have just finished the sketchbook I started a month or so ago so I will need to start a new one next week! You know how much I lOVE to do that! This new one is a moleskin with thin paper that won't take watercolors so I 'll have to go to pen and colored pencil or I think I read somewhere where that paper would hold up to Guache paint so we'll see.... I always get excited about a new book but I will miss this one as I really loved it. It was just a plain old Strathmore visual journal but I really liked it. See you tomorow with a new mandala for the summer of color....

Friday already, time flies so fast.... my computer is fixed so you get to see lots of photos from our week at the cabin! we've gone to the same spot for 5 years now.

We spotted 77 of these guys on our early morning hike! and herer's my haiku...

Seventy seven

little orange salamanders

in the morning dew

 It's become tradition I make a sand mermaid...

Below is the pond we hiked to, I just realized I don't even have a photo of the lake! I take so many every year I guesss I figured I didn't need any more.

And here's some pages in my sketchbook...

And here's a heart sketch for AyalaArt in red and white for Artists PlayRoom and the zentangle for IamtheDiva...

And some mosters for Butterfly effect...

Happy paint party friday!

Summer of color

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Hello, I am back from our trip to the lake, not so happy to be back at work, but we do get tomorow off for the 4th! Had a wonderful time and have lots of photos to show, and lots of sketches in my book to show too, but our computer has a virus again! So back to posting one photo from my ipad.... Here's my summer of color entry inspired by the strawberry lemonade cone!

My life lately....

It has been a week (or two) of ups and downs, highs and lows, scratches and smiles, and bad news that turned into good. It was the last week of school and we have recently found out my son will start a new school in the fall that will be a better place for him to be. That felt bad at first as it's a long trip for him but turned out to be good news!
It was a hot summer solstice, too hot to do anything but sit and sweat. I spent a 93 degree lunch hour sitting near the river sketching, but at least it seemed 10 degrees cooler next to the water.

 and one day on the top of the world sketching...

My daughter saved two out of three baby ducklings literally from the claws and teeth of my killer cat, she and my parents tried to feed them so they could live long enough to set them free in a pond or somewhere. We have no rescue center nearby to take wild animals to, and sadly they didn't make it through their second night.

Cute, fuzzy and yet

survival of the fittest

is still very sad

We go to a state park for vacation very soon, and I am looking forward to canoeing, swimming, hiking to the ponds and sketching while my husband fishes, eatting barbecue and probably ranch chicken wings. I can't wait!
This week I created a mandala for the summer of color, inspired by the baseball nut, black raspberry cone...

I am also linking to the artists playroom for their theme of monochromatic art as this is all shades of raspberry, and to paint party friday. And...Here's my zentangle for iamthediva's challenge using the tangle called Cadent...

See you all soon! Thanks for stopping by!

share the joy

I used to put lists of small pleasures, things I was grateful for, happy moments, my little likes, joys etc.  in my journals daily. I have not been doing that lately and I need to get back to that practice. This week I want to share the joy with photos of a few of the things from my lists....

A flower from my back deck...

 Starting a new mandala....

 Enjoying the river on my lunch hour...

The artwork that inspired hundreds of treasuries for this week's nonteamchallenge!...

The strawberry creamcheese bagel my husband made for me...

See you tomorow with some finished art work...