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! 

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.

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.

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?!??!

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!!

New fountain Pen

I do so love this very interesting pen for its unique nib and smooth writing. I am even happier that I was able to purchase a converter for it and can use my own ink.

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!