Happy New Years Eve

Happy New Years Eve everyone!! I’m looking forward to seeing what 2019 brings! Since I have been retired, it seems to me that life passes quickly and I want to enjoy each day to the fullest and I plan to do that in the new year! 

I started the page without a plan and added the washi tape on the bottom first then added some background marks with around the house stencils and ink. This cute dog is Sktchy inspired and Ibdrew and painted him on rice paper.  It seemed to me that the fog was talking ..... then the Bob Marley song popped into my head. 

Lemon Clock

Before we packed up to head home today my granddaughter wanted to work on this science project.  It wasn’t a success because I couldn’t set the time on the clock I!

Wildlife Photography

No photos allowed  at the annual exhibition 

Christmas Day

Here is another page of this and that With snatches if time throughout the day just prior to the real dinner preparations getting underway.

Pen and watercolour in my Stillman and Birn sketchbook 

12 Days of Christmas

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! This is actually what we did yesterday’s page.....a collaboration with my granddaughter.  She wanted to bake cookies for Santa and she wanted to help her grandfather with the dinner rolls.  While we were baking we listened to Bob and Doug McKenzie’s - 12 Days of Christmas.  After Day 2 add “and a beer in a tree”🎶 to each day.  She drew squares 6, u and 8; since Bob and Doug didn’t actually have a 9-10-11, Anju made those up. So a special Merry Christmas to all you “Hoser heads” out there -Take Off eh!!! Gosh I had fun making this page and it took me off and on.....5 hours to complete. 

The blue squares on the left page are the remnants of some sticky Christmas gift tags that I stuck down in my Stillman and Birn Delta sketchbook.  I used pen and and kiddo markers

Subway sketch

In my small pocket Moleskine sketchbook 

Best Nine from 2018

I’m glad two of my sketchbook drawings made the grade! 

I’m FREE!

Transfusion

So happy I had something to do while I waited for the two units of blood to get from A to me! It took forever!!!  

Waiting Room

I was given s bed on the Cancer and Palliative care ward (it was the bed that was available at 0100 hrs)! 

The infectious disease inspector was by and they removed many Christmas decorations but left this ceramic Snowman!

Hospital Food

Emergency - admit one

Third time is a charm

I’ve been making small pieces of art for Christmas cards! This house is only about 4 kms west of us as the crow flies.  I had friends who lived there and we had so much fun! Only house I’ve ever been in that had a double staircase; formal at the front door and another at the back beside the kitchen.  It is my understanding that the balcony in front of the door upstairs was never added in order to reduce property tax. Sadly the corporation that bought the farm has left the house abandoned.  This is my third go at this painting and I think I like it the best. 

Sketch at lunch

Met a friend in town yesterday for lunch.  Couldn’t finish but that is okay too!

My burger was yummy and the 1/2 quart of pop was a bit much!!  I might apply some shading to it today. 

Nina from Sktchy

I am taking part in a secret Santa with Sktchy.

I gave my muse a go in my sketchbook first and this is my final result that I mailed out today.

Not totally loving it but..... it is on its way.  What I really hate is the quality of this photo; it was such a cloudy day I couldn’t get a better shot and the flash was terrible too.  Anyway it is on its way to New York, come what may.

Watercolour, gouache glitter marker, and  embossing powder.?

This is my first go.  

Second try in my Stillman and Birn Beta sketchbook 

Journal page! Ugly Christmas Sweaters

Still working on cards but I made a wee bit of time for an art journal page!! I thought I deserved to get a snowman (oops I need to add snow and highlights on the bulbs!) and then this lead to that.  We received a text from our daughter informing us that a family photo will be happening next weekend. 

Not finished yet but this is all the time I had! 

Red brick farmhouse card

Last Christmas card! Making more but they are repeats of these four.

This one has a lot of meaning for me as it is entrenched in fond memories of time spent with friends here.  Oh the parties in that huge farmhouse.  If doesn’t look it but it has a double staircase; the formal one at the front door and another steeper on just off the kitchen. 

The red brick farmhouses in this area are all made from Huntsville brick and that town is an hours car ride north of here. It is in the style called Ontario cottage and back in the day most people wouldn’t finish the house in order to pay less property tax. You can tell this was the case here as well since there is a door to nowhere above the front door. I only know of one house from the same era that has that door leading out to a balcony. 

A corporation owns the farm and sadly it has been left abandoned;  who knows how long it will remain standing without people living in it!  I added the text because that is the song that I was listening too at the time I was adding the snow.  

I hope the recipient likes my card! 

JOY Christmas card

I didn’t think I was going to be able to pull this on off.  Bottom lin, “I tried to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear”!  I’m still not super stoked over it but happy that the cards to the other members of my swap group will be going out in the mail! 

Pen, ink, watercolour and Stickles glitter glue on 140 lb 100% cotton watercolour paper 

Merry and Bright

I see that I need to do some tweaking but basically it is done!!

Watercolour, gouache, ink and glitter glue on watercolour paper 

Let it snow Christmas card

I mailed this Christmas card out to Pamila in South Korea yesterday! I hope she gets it before Christmas and I hope she likes it! 

Watercolour on 100% cotton 140 lb watercolour paper by Bee Paper 

This is the quick sketch in my sketchbook with pen and crayon that I did while visiting the family in the big city! I had attempted a pop up using a post-it note.