The Clothesline

I am trying to keep practicing on my colored pencil. I am working on a friends daughter. The original sketch I noticed the mouth was too sma...

I traded watercolor postcards with a girl in Canada, she sent me a horse and I am sending her a cat. They are really small paintings that ar...

This is the third post in the series of my progressive application of a color pencil technique. Scroll down to the first post to see how the...

Here are more in the series of drawings, you can see the progression of layers of color. Then in the final layers you add the real color, so...

I wanted to do a piece with my grandsons picture at Easter and I had been reading about a colored pencil technique where they apply an under...

My daughter brought home a beautiful daylily yesterday. She told me that she would love to grow them after seeing this flower. It was an unu...

This picture was really hard since the reference photo was really dark and details were hard to make out. It is a cute picture of some kitty...

Well I will be done with the Huntington gardens after this post. I have too many other drawing to try to get onto the blog. I find the more ...

We had a wonderful day at the Huntington Gardens , the weather was perfect as was the company. We met up with Karen, Robin, Wendee and Nancy...

Well I decided with much encouragement from Robin to join the weekly sketch over at wetcanvas. I need to do the watercolor one too, now that...

We went to the Mission Inn for Sunday Brunch and the weather was great so we sat outside. I love to go there, every spot is a drawing oppor...

I went to a wonderful quilt class in Glendale, Calif. last week. We took Velda Newmans class and learned a bunch of new techniques for achie...

Well I am not overly happy with the results of my attempt at drawing a frame and picture. It was a challenge thats for sure. The frame hold...

Well here in Southern California we enjoy early springs and flowers year round. But I do love the first burst of color that the spring bring...

Well, they said it wasn't exactly what they were looking for, so in an effort to give them what they invision I redrew it. I also added ...

Casa Colina:This is the new rehab hospital just opened this last year. They tore down the old one and built this beautiful facility. They no...

This is a picture of my daughter who received a red hat and scarf from my mom for Christmas. She looked so beautiful in it and really loves ...

I was asked by the women to draw a logo depicting their scripture for the womens retreat. I am often asked to design logos or do artwork for...

I have decided I love chaos! It either makes me feel like I am not the only one out there that has lots of it or I think it makes for intere...

Sitting outside on a rainy day while Jennifer was having therapy I decided to draw the outdoor furniture, getting wet.

My daughters favorite "dead pets".

Well I haven't played with my watercolors on real watercolor paper in along time. So I decided last night while making dinner I would dr...

I finally made myself do this, I think I always draw parts of myself when I draw other people. My eyes for example, but it is so hard to put...

I was watching a show on raising giraffee's and this baby lost his mother, as I watched the show its their eyes that get you, those long...

Its that time of year when all of us women need to go get their mamograms. I try and do it at the beginning of each year, it gets it out of ...

It is unusually stormy for us here in southern California the rain is giving us a much needed watering. It is not overly cold but when we do...

Well I had a fun trip to Costco where I preceeded to buy more food than I needed, in quantities I will now have to store. But I love going f...

Ok, I finally got to the door knob. I had dreams of grandeur, I planned on taking my sketchpad everywhere with me this week and drawing all ...

Hi all, well I wanted to share my quilt with you, it just won in one of the catagories in a big show back east. I had painted the fabric and...

As we were having lunch at the rehab hospital, where Jennifer goes for therapy, I noticed the piano. It sits in the corner of the cafeteria,...

Well, this is it, the armour that holds my books and the TV. I know the "don't have a TV in your room" theory already, its too...

Well, I did a two for one, in "The Creative License", Gregory tells us to draw our breakfast and since it was grapefruit I got the...

Here is Jennifer's toothbrush, mine is the old fashion kind, I need to draw it too. I bought this for her because of her limited hand mo...

Well, I am trying to catch up and draw everyday so here is #9, can you tell they are in no particular order! I have lots of chaos around the...

Well our group did our first sketchcrawl and I couldn't go due to the rain. I was up and all dressed to go when a friend, who lives almo...

After church and brunch...... we collapsed onto the sofa to digest like a bunch of lions after a kill. When we woke up we vowed to not go to...

Well, that has to be the fact that we still have Jennifer with us after someone decided to drink and drive. It left her with a broken life a...

Ok, I know you all think I am crazy but I love my iron. I make quilts and love to iron the pieces of fabric. I love the way it can take a wr...

I was sitting at bible study and listening to everyone talk and noticed that one of the women was directly across from me and I grabbed my b...

Ok I joined a sketch group called "Everyday Matters" which encourages us to draw everyday. This is my first challenge, # 53 draw ...