Lettuce

First time for me painting a head of lettuce but I had to document this historic moment in another “cents”!! I can’t believe I bought it. 

Dreamy galaxy

Postcard 3/10 it all started with the galaxy I made and cut out.  Then I made a background from similar watercolour colours, then it sat there for a few weeks.  I got inspired finally and painted a cupped hand on a piece of drawing paper with gouache. Glued the galaxy on top and glued that to the background.  Good. Hmmmm. Now what.... need text.  Used some embossing ink and a letter stamps.  I should have chosen a different colour of powder but it is what it is.  It will be going to her new home in Texas. 

Balance

No prompt-  Postcard 1/10. Sktchy inspired. I have a vintage bottle of Sheafter Scrip blue/black ink that I used for this card.

Kind of bummed over the lettering but it can’t be changed now.  I will have to sit with it for a day or two to see if I can come up with a fix or at least an improvement. 

Postacard is Strathmore 500 series 100% cotton 

Moving on to the next card. 

Sktchy inspired - Sailor Fude pen

Thanks to Sktchy for the fun photo; I really wanted to try and capture the water glass and had to laugh when I saw that she also had hair curlers!!! I can’t remember when I last saw them let alone “wore them”.  Regardless, I still have “fond” memories (well not so very much) of a prickly and painful attempts at sleeping with them.

Love my new Sailor Fude nib pen and being able to shift the soluble ink around to achieve a bit of depth....In my pocket Moleskine sketchbook. 

Bumblebee Pistachio

Shout out to Callum from Sktchy and his mother who had the original idea to paint up bees on small stones.  Sometime ago, I saw someone online painting up pistachios shells with colourful patterns so that inspired me to illustrate a page and make my own bumblebee with a shell I found in my odds and ends tin. Drawing created in pen and watercolour in my Stillman and Birn Beta sketchbook and 3D bumblebee made with shell, acrylic paint and ink (👆🏻🔝↗️)

The Royal Winter Fair

No time for drawing much except my lunch.  In s cheap little notebook that I keep in my purse.

Sin and Redemption

On Friday it was raining so we weren’t downtown Toronto for a change if scene.  We stopped for a late lunch at Sin and Redemption Restaurant across from St Patrick’s (and the Redeemers) church; luckily we got a window seat so I made a page in my Stillman and Birn Beta sketchbook.

The server gave my hubby the Sinners glass and I got the Redeemers; both contained Redeemers lager that they make there.  I have since added. One journaling in the white space on the bottom right. 

We walked by the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and I just had to snap this! 

We don’t have street lights in the country so love all the reflections of the rain in the big city!

Fence Post Friday

We walked our granddaughter to school this morning in the rain so I’m crossing my fingers for some sunshine tomorrow.  Have a great Fence Post Friday and a good weekend everyone ...... come rain, sleet or sunshine!!! 

Anniversary Flowers

I’m happy I waited a few days to paint these; they look fabulous right now! 

Mice in Bertha’s motor

Hoping that dousing some cloths with peppermint oil will prevent them from trying to make another house in my car!