One last post about A Flower A Day in June. The idea was to draw a flower a day to increase my drawing skills and to sharpen my observations. I managed to draw 9 flowers in June – so not one a day by a long shot. The practice of the exercise did sharpen my [...]
Posts under ‘Adventure Art’
Sketchbook Challenge – Pathways
A collage for this month’s Sketchbook Challenge. The text reads: “I am a writer and an artist. I am surrounded by love and friendship, sun and sand. I am moving forward on the path I choose with freedom and ease.” The various females in the collage are to represent me along with the other symbols. [...]
Sketchbook Challenge – Late May
I thought I had already posted this – sheesh. At the end of my last Sketchbook Challenge post I alluded to something else I could not resist. Then I left you all hanging. I wanted to do the picture with white Neocolor II resist crayons – but heck – life sucked me in and I [...]
Sketchbook Challenge – May – I Can’t Resist
I can’t resist a yellow wildflower We recently went on our first “rough” camping trip of the year. Rough means miles from anywhere on dirt roads with no water, toilets or picnic tables. We found it was a little early and retreated more than once to modern civilization. Read more about the Prairie Adventure. For [...]
Studio Organization – Again
Remember I told you I gave myself incentives to organize/reorganize/spring clean my studio? And that my latest obsession is with the drawers from olde (old with an e – means really old) sewing machines? Well I’ve moved on to a higher mode – the brackets or pieces of olde sewing machines that held the drawers! [...]
My Year to Run – Month #2
Okay – I’m not sure why I put this in my blog – other than I want my readers to have a sense of where I come from as a person which in turn is what feeds my art. I started running when I was 45, but the truth is that I have NOT run [...]
Art Journaling Every Day – Whooping Crane Migration
We are birders – we cannot help it – we are completely enamored with the Sandhill Cranes. Last week we ventured forth to follow the Whooping Crane migration. To read about that adventure in more detail click here. Since this is mainly a blog for my art journaling I will just show you the Art [...]
Art Journaling Every Day – What About in a Class Notebook?
I’m taking a series of classes with Landmark Education. I haven’t tried to do art journaling AND class notes together before – but every blank page is an opportunity right? This notebook was started last Halloween. I went to Ft. Lauderdale to combine taking the class with a visit with my sister. She was working [...]
Art Journaling from the Everglades – Keep an Art Journal
Here are a couple of the Journal pages I’ve finished from the Everglades trip. I was after the effect of the alligator hide through out the backgrounds and tried various ways of coming up with it. I drew in a section of hide for the right side border. I painted some in the furthest back [...]
Art Journaling Every Day-Kayaking in the Everglades-Fun AND Exciting
Continuing on my quest for Interesting Material for my Art Journaling Every Day as well as continuing in my intention that education for the kids be fun and exciting – we moved the quest to Florida. On the East side of the Everglades our favorite part was the Anhinga Trail. On the west side we [...]
