The Clothesline

why is mine always full of pits. I think Erma Bombeck wrote that book. Well I must admit, although I do have those types of days, normally m...

Sometimes things just hit me from the side and I don't even see them coming, or I have been running from them so long I don't notice...

Every year Hoffman Fabrics has a challenge where they supply the fabric and we have to come up with some way to use it. I did it last year a...

I haven't had time to paint or draw in some weeks now, I miss it terribly. It is a special time for me, a time of renewal and it relieve...

Well I haven't had much time to draw, I have been trying to finish this quilt before a show deadline. I did it! Yippee! I am so done, I ...

My friend Susan and I went to the San Juan Capistrano Mission with the Southern California sketchcrawl group. I had such a good time but wis...

Here is the piece to this point, I am still struggling with the horizon line and figuring out what I should put there. I would like the get ...

After seeing how far I had actually gotten I thought I should go ahead and scan in the drawing. Who knows the next step could ruin it. I alw...

I am really trying to fit it all in these days. I know I have to be HDHDS, whatever they call it, I have a million projects I am jumping aro...

Well I had my yearly womenly doctors appointment. You know the ones where you get assaulted and have to pay for it. Well the waiting room is...

One of the members posted pictures of her mother's dogwood that is in full bloom. She took several pictures and posted them for us to dr...

I loved the challenge picture this week, I hope to get a chance to redo it in color. I did the sketch after the zoo on Saturdays sketch craw...

We had a great day today sketching with everyone. It was so nice to meet new people and just hang out. Although I think the zoo was disappoi...

Here are the noses living in my house, the exception is my grandsons nose at the bottom. I also journaled everyones favorite smells. I will ...

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...