Bishop

I wasn't sure that I was going to like this watercolour drawing but I think I am happy that his eyes appear to be what the actually look like!

This isn't the original Bishop but the snap made me think of him. I had to draw "Panda" here as she brought back memories of my girlfriends dog, Bishop. When we were kids and I would stay overnight at her house we would have to beat him at bed time because he didn't like to share!  What a great memory created by this drawing and painting in my sketchbook!

Ouch!

I had someone back into me from a parking spot while I was in the driving lane at a shopping plaza. I went to get the appraisal for the body work yesterday. Thankfully I am not at fault! Who knew that this minimal damage would be assessed at $4,037.00 CDN What truly irritates me was her blasé attitude since she was driving a fleet vehicle and had there been much damage to her she would simply get a new car to drive. Me....I got to be without my dear Bertha for 2 weeks!!! I stood out in the -24C wind chill for the ink work after I got home from town and rushed inside to warm up! Applied watercolour today.


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Toned paper drawings

I bought a new Lamy Joy calligraphy pen and it was wrapped in this brown paper. I thought I would try using it to create these gold wrapped chocolate chews.


I've had the Strathmore "toned tan" 400 Series art journal for some time and have never used it! I like the results here much better than the cheapie craft paper but is was fun to experiment. These were done late in the afternoon when the sun was streaming in through the kitchen window. I tried to capture the glow of the gold paper but I was unable to achieve the results that I wanted.


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Two more UFO's completed

For me UFO's mean unfinished projects! I finally finished these two necklaces! I am really stoked about that fact too! They are both "beaded" using a needle and thread!

The one one the left is a spiral rope and I will be giving it to my grand-daughter! The "leftover" necklace or bead soup one is for me!



I forgot to post this when we visited our family in Toronto last week.  My hubby and I stopped in at the Fox and the Fiddle so he could have a "beverage".  I forgot my sketchbook so I did this sketch on the back of a table top beer advertisement.

Not the best but I am happy that at least I got to practice drawing in an urban setting especially with the bike covered up with snow.  There were lots of these bikes on the street like this.  Way too much snow for anyone to ride so I would expect they are using city transit until the streets clear up.

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