A Drawing a Day 2

 Here are some of the drawings I have done since the last batch I shared.

Pen and Ink This Week

 

One Drawing A Day

One reason I started blogging was to inspire myself to do more art.  Lately, I have been doing lots of art, but not taking the time to blog it.

Cassie Stephens, of the Cassie Stephens blog, started a group on Facebook called "Artsy Book Club." The current intent is to have folks work along with the book, One Drawing a Day, by Veronica Lawlor.  It has been a lot of fun to have an art challenge.  It feels awfully vulnerable posting the results for the world to see.

Here are the drawings I have done so far.

Pen and ink drawing of a still life

Pen and ink drawing of something organic

Pen and ink portrait

Charcoal drawing from a photo

Ink drawing with washes

I'm looking forward to five more weeks of drawing.  Hopefully I will remember to share them!

Whimsy

I'm spending the weekend drawing on notecards. I love whimsy and so these are just fun to do.


I'll put them up on Etsy, and if they remain there past Christmas, I'll be happy to send them out myself. So often I have trouble finding commercial cards that "speak" to me.


By the way, if you have an Etsy shop, would you leave a comment for me? I want to do a post sometime soon where I give the links to my favorite artist/friends.

19

19 days of school left, I think. Feels like a hundred.



Found out today that surprise high school class reunion is in 6 weeks. (Class of '75. )

I want to look like this.


I feel more like this.



It's been a blue day. Tomorrow will be better. Only 19 more days til break...

So Many Goodies

I acquired so many goodies today that I feel a little guilty.

First of all, I was excited to receive goodies from a swap I did with Andrea Gutierrez of the Cider and Faun blog.

I just adore these prints.


I'm torn between wanting to keep them for myself and framing them for my Granddaughter. They're so precious.


And then there's this little woodlands elf. He's a papercut and ink piece. This piece and the others are so simple and reserved. That's part of their charm.

She even sent a print of a scherenschnitte house.

Thanks, Andrea. It was so much fun getting these today. They are gorgeous.


Then there was a goody from the UPS man. I bought this egg lathe with an Amazon gift certificate. I made the egg on it this afternoon. What a dream to use! Wow. It just made drawing wax lines phenominally easier.


This last goody was given to me by a second grade fellow as he entered the art room today, but I have no clue who it was. = ( As soon as he gave it to me, I stuck it in a pocket and forgot about it. What a lovely piece of stationery. I need to find out who made it.

Pen & Ink

Pen and ink drawing based on yesterday's snip.

And another one.

Giveaway from the Art Ed. conference last year. It's been sitting on the shelf waiting to be used for the past year.