My little granddaughter is marking off a milestone! Lost her first tooth yesterday, and a having a wonderful birthday girl today.  Hmmmm... hoping the tooth fairy leaves her something extra special under her pillow!  I wonder what the value is for the first tooth these days? We will find out when we pick up from school this afternoon!! 

Look at what I found at the "bricks and mortar" bookstore in town!!! 

Very excited to play this with my granddaughter.  She is a wee bit young for the age group but I figure that she can still play.  

Wow! Those cubes were killers! I have to make a point of drawing these over again. 

Meet Aoife from Ireland - Drawing #3 and first time with paint in preparation for my final drawing and painting to send my muse her portrait in the mail.

I'm throwing convention out the window and leaving my pencil lines under my watercolour.  I haven't done manny watercolour portraits so I'm happy with this.  Next time I'll add less dark graphite marks.  However, I couldn't seem to lift the paint off my paper with my brush.  I must look for  harder bristled one and see if that works. I'll have to be cognizant of that with the unknown fibre content of the "canvas" that Sktchy sent to me for the Secret Santa exchange.

First time using this sketchbook, a Fabriano Venezia book.  It has 90 lb drawing paper that I like the feel of but with that one exception.  Koi watercolours pocket field sketch box. 

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So it is looking really great out my window this morning, so I'm wishing you all a Happy Fence Post Friday!!! 

Most of the farmers around these parts have taken or are in the process of taking their corn off the fields! 

No prompt - I am participating in a Secret Santa exchange with Sktchy and thought to do some preliminary sketches before I actually get my "canvas" out (4x6 heavy card stock) and paint my muse.  She is from from Ireland. 

I am very nervous about my painting since I usually don't paint muses with teeth.  I also found that straight hair is more difficult than what I had anticipated.  B pencil and Palamino Blackwing Pearl in my Moleskine sketchbook.

Christmas card repeat.  Ugh! More seepage but this time I can live with it.  Phew! I'm running out of time and want to get them in the mail soon.  I did do the white gouache flick but thought it was a bit anemic so I added the glitter again, it's a Christmas card after all!! 

I've discarded the tape I was using and will revert back to my usual medical paper bandage tape.  It seems to get into the crevices of the cold press paper better and works well on hot press as well (after applying it to the back of my hand several times to remove a bit more of the sticky factor that could cause the hot press paper to lift upon removal)!! 

Disappointed that I hadn't thought about my layout for this card a bit more! No matter, I've made another Christmas card. 

Fabriano Artistico cold press postcard 100% cotton 5X7 with pan watercolours and glitter glue.

I'm not Rudolf and a Peace Parrot

I thought I might be able to draw a Peace Dove but I like drawing anything but a dove.  I have to say I had fun trying to give this parrot a go in my sketchbook.  It is from a phone that I saw on-line. 

I seem to be liking the blue and purple mix for Christmas....even if they are actually Christmas colours.  They are perfect for what I am doing here so I'm going to go ahead regardless because I just happen to really like the look. 

Thanks to Nelli from Sktchy for the awesome reindeer inspiration for a Christmas card!! I had loads of fun with it! Cheap pan watercolours on Fabriano Artistico cold press postcard 5X7 and some glitter snow. 

The Christmas Season begins

We went to town to see the Santa Claus parade with the family.  We had dinner at the Grilled Cheese restaurant (very cute and our supper was delicious) then we watched the "cheesy" parade IN THE RAIN!  I didn't know there was going to be fireworks so that was a great surprise!

Snowman Christmas card

Today's card! 

I painted one in my sketchbook not long ago and then created this "Christmas" card from that initial sketch.  Fabriano Artistico cold press postcard 100% cotton.  However, I used cheap pan watercolours but they worked well on the paper. Oh yes, I used some glitter glue for the snow. 

I love the Sktchy app and this envelope was inspired by the photo of a woman blowing a huge bubble.  The bubble is a perfect place to put the address.  Not only do I LOVE chicken art; I also LOVE mail art and especially envelope art!

Peace Pigeon

With thanks to Lark from Sktchy, I am participating in a Christmas card exchange and her photo was the perfect inspiration.  This postcard will be going to a woman in Germany.  Fabriano Artistico 100% cotton cold press 5x7, Platinum Carbon desk pen, pan watercolours. Stamps and StazOn ink pad.  Oh yes and a wee bit of glitter. 

I'm making envie art for my Christmas cards! 

Thanks to Cheyenne over on Sktchy for being the inspiration for my envie for the Christmas postcard of my last post. Cheap matte craft paint and file folder round labels.  

#envelope_art

Ultramarine blue and Red

I love this muse from Sktchy, Sue always has such interesting photos and I just loved her hat.  I gave it a go even though I didn't make it look like I had hoped.  Still, I made some art today so I am happy.

Santa Baby

Thanks to Jenell from Sktchy for the inspiration photo! I had loads of fun with this page. We woke up to 5 inches of fluffy white snow this morning and temperatures were at -13C!! Brrrrr!  Coincidentally, I had an appointment to get my snow tires on today so drew and painted this while I waited! I'm hearing Leann Rimes singing this song in my head. I used some new watercolour paper sheets for this since it is all I had in my bag! So still making card art in my Moleskine!  

A Christmas Doggie and Black&White Photography

Thanks to Chris from Sktchy for the reference photo! I had a bit of fun with George this morning!! Cheap pan watercolours in my Moleskine. Yup, I've got Christmas cards on my mind! #boxer #Christmas

A Basic snowman in my Moleskine

We woke up to 5 inches of snow this morning and -13C so the temperatures make it too cold to pack the snow into a snowman.   I played in my sketchbook and made one with pen and watercolour. 

this will be a pro to-type for a Christmas card.

I had to dig these leather gloves out from their summer storage along with a hat and scarf.  These were hard to do as I couldn't get the patten leather to look like it against the soft leather of the palms!  Oh well...I got to use my Opera pink! 

Foxy Villians

Thanks to Sktchy for this awesome muse and the sweetest looking "villain"! I feel bad that these beauties are vilified so much!  It could be that where I live we don't have many or maybe because I have never seen them.  What we do have (I've seen them often) are coyotes and/or coy-wolves (boy are they beautiful too!)

Gouache in my on a previously prepared background Moleskine. 

Eggs for Breakfast

I'm not going to lie, I love eggs for breakfast and I will have them almost every day.  I used an image transfer that I got off of my gelli-plate when I was trying to seal a postcard that I was mailing out for the fall iHanna swap.  I lifted it off the plate with some artist tissue paper and then glued it on this gelli-printed background.  I have been fooling with the gelli-plate a lot this summer and had lifted off some paint with my Moleskine.   It is a busy page....but it is SO like me!!