What's in my bag -not my camera bag

I belong to a Flickr group and have taken a snap and posted.  This time I drew what is in my bag!  It was lots of fun! 

Everyday in October

I tried to do Inktober but haven't been able to keep up especially with this cough and cold. But here are some drawings that I did in my Stillman & Birn Gamma sketchbook.

This is the prop from the Bombardier Q400 plane that we flew in with Porter airlines!  I actually drew it on the 8th but have never posted it anywhere.  I used my grand-daughters Crayola marker for the yellow.

this acorn was sittin on my daughters kitchen table so I drew it! 

Drawing the right with the left

as you can see I drew this for the Facebook group Everyday in September.  It was quite difficult to draw with my left - I need more practice - so I painted it with my right.

Fork in the Road

Sat in a "no parking zone" to draw this at the "Five Points" in downtown Barrie, Ontario.  The restaurant in the centre is the closest thing that Barrie has to a "flat iron" building. 

It was quite the challenge and I can see that I have been "somewhat" successful.  at least I was able to complete it, paint and all before I left for home. 

Monarch and Tea Bag Art #2

Really love this raindrop that I drew with Derwent Inktense Pencil for Everyday in September.

I found the image on Google when I queried rain drop images.

I just love tea bag art and need to do more on this substrate!

Tea bag art and our Finial

This past Wednesday, I meet up with my sketching buddy and we had a lovely lunch at The Blue Willow Rea Room in Gravenhurst.

 I think Martie was a bit surprised when I emptied the large folded tea bag out on my plate and placed it in my napkin to dry and stowed it in my purse. 

We are getting a new metal roof on our old house (circa 1892) and the roofers took down what was left of the finial on the one gable. The ornament has been damaged, eaten away by the exposure to the harsh elements over the many years that it has been on the roof. I wanted to draw and document it! 

I have also seen lots of interesting tea bag art and wanted to test it out for myself. I tore off a piece of the flip-over for this. I was very surprised at how lovely it was to draw and paint on. I am definitely going to be using the tea bags I have saved; however, I am actually a coffee drinker! 

Pilot Metropolitan fine nib pen and Payne's Grey watercolour in my Moleskine sketchbook.

Not JUST a tin of soup

EDiS 16- Pop Art. For this prompt I actually went out and bought the can of soup the other day. It will be cold enough here to eat it sooner rather than later! I didn't want to recreate the Campbell's soup can so thought this might suffice. I had no idea that it is made in Montreal. I don't recall eating this when we lived in Quebec (I was young at the time) but my hubby loves it. 

A House and a Panama Hat - kind of...

I went by this house at 158 Dunlop St E in Barrie and saw that the legal eagle firm has vacated the premises and the huge mansion of a house appears to be abandoned.  I have always loved this house when I drive by.  I stopped a year a go or so and attempted to draw it but was not successful.  So happy that I made the effort today.  Funny how people alway feel that they need to comment when they see someone drawing.  A fella went by walking his dog and he said, "Drawing the house, eh?"  Yes! Yes, I am!

Earlier this summer we were in the big city -Toronto Canada - to take a tour of Graffitti Alley just off Queen St West. It was the hottest day that we had up to that moment. We walked by this store and decided that we needed hats to survive the tour. My hubby bought this Panama hat and we were told that the way to tell a Panama from other hats is the woven circle in the centre.  I couldn't figure out how to draw the texture so I just drew. It is actually white and I didn't want to leave it as a contour drawing. Now it makes me think of a computer simulation during the graphics stage of hat building. 

A Flaming Meditation

EDiS #6- here is my matchstick flame. We are still in the big city visiting family and since my grand-daughter has gone to her piano lesson I have a few minutes to post and surf here! Way, way back in the day, I belonged to a transcendental meditation group.  We were taught to use the time of a burning flame to wipe our minds clean of "stuff" and concentrate on meditating. At first, I could only last for that very short period of time before my mind would wander. I had fun.... the second time ever drawing my hand and the first for a flame! I had to jimmy around trying to make skin tone, need to practice that one more. In my Moley

Sketchbook. 

Moorish mask

Funny how I see this souvenir everyday but I don't really look at it. I took down this leather mask we brought back from Portugal.  It was quite challenging to get all of the folds in the leather to create the face.  We had a good holiday but if I was to do it over again we would have spent the money on the excursions.  We missed a great opportunity to visit Morocco.

Watercolour first then add drawing

A new technique that I think I enjoy doing very much is to lay down the watercolour and then apply the pen work afterwards.

This is how I did this sketch of this Canada Goose in my Moleskine sketchbook. My initial paint application has created a shadow that makes this goose appear to be in motion. 

Hot tomatoes! Too hot to handle!

I forgot to post this one.

Trying to do more art!

Every Day in August #22-Still Life. What I have been doing for weeks!! This one was a challenge for me, I am never comfortable about the placement of my subject matter. This is what I did today creatively and literally for weeks now.  Okay... so the rusty shears were just a prop in place of the new pruning shears I have been using!!! Faber-Castell pen and watercolour in a new Moley sketchbook. It isn't a watercolour one because I prefer the portrait orientation but it does seem to take the watercolour better than before.....but that might be in my imagination! 

I love gadgets even when they aren't mine!

I don't know if I am alone in this or not but my hubby and I have separate tool boxes.  I keep mine on the main floor for easy access. Today was the first time that I have ever seen this gizmo in action, he brought out because he saw me struggling. Like my purse his toolbox is his personal domain and that is fine with me. I certainly appreciated the assistance of this gadget though. So am I the only one here who didn't know what this handy dandy tool was for?!??!

A Childhood Memory with the help of an image from the Internet

I'm trying to do as much of Everyday in August drawing as I possibly can! #17-Childhood memory.  Wow! This was a hard one! I am an Air Force brat (Canada) and my Dad was station overseas in France so we visited around Europe. I have more stories from Ireland than anywhere because my Dad wanted to find his grand-fathers grave. We visited many, many (I thought at the time too many) grave yards. That means my Dad would visit the priest to check their records and would be in there for what felt like hours. Who was he to say no to a wee glass of Irish whiskey!! We never did find it for sure! I was going to draw Blarney Castle but finally settled on this drawing. I'm a Maloney and my family is from County Clare abc had been indentured to the O'Briens so of course we visited O'Brien's Castle on the Cliffs of Moher! It was built by Cornelius O'Brien in 1835. The view is stunning. As I recall, the "castle" not so much! I had to check google for images and one the left is a close up of a very cleaned up tourist attraction. When we were there it was more like the movie The Highlander and it included cow patties or meadow muffins in the field surrounding it. On the right is a quick sketch of another view from a distance. It is still clear in my mind how breath-taking it all was! Thanks for reminding me these precious moments in time and I hope to see it again in the very near future.

I love Sketchbook Art

I love that I can take my sketchbook wherever I go. When I have it and a pen I can keep from being bored or lonely. 

I did this while eating at a Montana's Restaurant in Oakville. Thank goodness I had this to do as the table I was offered was the worst one in the whole restaurant. 

After the storm!

We are still cleaning up from the major storm that blew through our place on Sunday August the 2nd. Four loads of brush to the dump already.

Took some time out to go to town and saw this 1969 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow for sale along the road. These are rare in these parts so I pulled over. The man who lives there came out to see what I was up to and had no problem with letting me park my car in his lane way for this drawing. Only bummer was the car is white; I'm not a fan of white! My hubby wanted to know the asking price and had to tell him, I just wanted to draw it not buy it!!

Wonky selfies

This is so very fun to do! You should try it. I used an app that distorted my face!

I would never have thought of this if it not been for SketchbookSkool dot com 

Visiting family

Meet Maxine (or Max for short) the cheetah! My little grand-daughters newest addition to her stuffed animal menagerie.

Trying out this new sketchbook by Cottonwood Arts. I thought I might not like it as the paper is super smooth. However, as it turns out I like how the watercolour floats on the paper! 

My grand-daughter wasn't so sure that she liked the green paint even though that is the colour of her living room walls. 

This is the drawing I did for The Daisy Yellow Index card a Day! It is my grand-daughters baseball cap. When you are born and raised in Toronto, of course you have a Blue Jays cap even if you are only 3 years old! 

My entry in Kristen's sketchbook

I am still taking on-line classes with Sketchbook Skool dot com and enjoying every minute! I joined a sketchbook exchange with some other students and this is the final entry in Kristen's book. I will be mailing it out to her today! Yippee! What fun!