The Clothesline

I was outside today, working in the yard, trimming trees etc. My husband was trimming back some of the roses and when I turned around, in th...

I took some pictures of people sitting near by me the day I had lunch at Simple Simons. I decided to do some quick watercolors of them today...

Well, I know that this might seem like a stretch but I found this sign on my walk today, it was on the street and I felt it qualified. It is...

I thought I would paint one of the flamingos we saw on one of the sketchcrawls to the zoo. I sketched them there but also took tons of pictu...

I had started this sketch back at the week long camp we took Jennifer to in Long Beach. All of that weeks activities are centered around wat...

Ok, well I am off and running, I had a free day so I thought I would go and start my painting of Riverside. I decided to go have lunch at on...

I think this is the right challenge number, if not I have to change it. I am so glad Karen choose this as our weekly challenge, it made me w...

I had a job due today that was a Raggity Anne and Andy, it snuck up on me and I had to overnight it to the job site. That usually doesn'...

I have this habit of drawing horse heads on every scrap of paper within my reach if I have a writing utensil and there is a blank spot. Ever...

The in the WC colored pencil forum started posting monthly challenges. I think this will be great since we now have so many challenges going...

I did do some sketching while I was on vacation but I found that we ran so much of the time and I didn't have time to sketch too much. I...

I am painting murals for the new church in the kids rooms. I am not doing them all but a good portion of them. I started with the kindergard...

Ok, tommorrow is the big day. For 6 years, my husband and I have not had a vacation alone of more than an overnight thing. Since Jennifer go...

One of the most amazing parts of the program, to me, is all of the trained volunteers that are needed to allow one quadriplegic person to w...

I am posting some pictures of our week of activities. I want to share some of the amazing stories of some amazing people. As most of you kn...

 

Well we just returned from our week long adventure in Long Beach with Casa Colina the Rehab hospital that Jennifer goes to for therapy. They...

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...