Still Life #12

Here's a drawing of one of the lovely flowers my husband bought me. This one was purple with yellow in the center. I really like how this one turned out.

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Still Life #11

Sorry I've been behind on my blogging and truthfully I was behind on my drawing. This was the first thing that I grabbed on the computer desk on Friday night after small group training.

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So today was Parent Vacation Day. More so for me than it was for Micah since he

So today was Parent Vacation Day. More so for me than it was for Micah since he had to go to work. But this morning I woke up at 6:30am and I made us breakfast. I drove Micah to work and went to Dick Blick and got thoroughly spoiled. Then, Micah and I went to lunch and I got a bunch of beautiful flowers. Went home and rearranged the flowers, took a shower, and I picked him up and presented him with a boutonniere with the flowers that I had. We went out for sushi and we opened gifts of new pens that we then used for the rest of our date at the coffee shop. We went to the Java House and had coffee and dessert. We sat in the fabulous chairs that I sketched. They were like a red velvet soft upholstry. I would love to have something like this in my home. Comfortable and extremely beautiful! Micah and I are both sitting here yawning at 8:22 at night. Our oldest probably isn't even in bed yet.
We will probably head home soon. Gone I guess are the days we actually desire to sit here all night

Still life #9

Tonight my folks came and picked up the kids so that we can attend a small group training this weekend. So we went out for dinner & dessert tonight all by ourselves. Today was also the first day that Gracie ate rice cereal from a spoon & Gracie started saying "dada" on the 7th.

Still life #8

This is a pen that we got from River of Life Church. It says "Our God is a Big God". It's drawn with a Pilot precise v5 rolling ball fine point black ink pen.

Mario Drawing

OK. Here's what I came up with, colored pencils. Which the colored pencils I love. The drawing...eh not so much. But I did learn a lot from this drawing. I worked from a little plastic toy that Isaiah has...but my drawing still looks pretty flat. I will probably use this as a still life again. Well when my son is sleeping.

Still Life #7

You win some and you loose some. Not so thrilled with this drawing. But the best part of having food as your subject matter is that you can eat the still life and no one will know where you messed up. But if my 3 year old son can at least tell it's something you eat, it's worth not throwing away. For those of you who did not eat at my house tonight, Isaiah's left overs are a half eatten slice of supreme pizza. This pizza was one of those that you take and bake from Aldi's. I think I may try my hand at another drawing tonight using some colored pencils...and maybe a ballpoint pin.

Still Life #6

A rubber stamp that I had laying around the house.

Still life #5

I thought I would do something of Micah's tonight since I did my brush, cell phone & a toy from each of the children. So far I am loving this drawing everyday. I think I will continue to use this journal for the rest of the drawings so they are all together and the same size. Can't wait to see what they look like when they are all completed.

Still Life #4

Gracie's doll. Pen & ink.

Still Life #3

A sketch of Isaiah's hotwheel car that is apparently called an Iridium. Pen & ink so far. I don't know if I like it. It may get color tomorrow. Or it may just stay like this. Things tend to look different in the morning.

Discipline finished page.

The finished page. I am pretty happy with it.

Still life #2

A quick pen drawing of my cell phone before bed.

Still Life #1

A pen sketch of my water brush with colored pencil on watercolor paper.

DISCIPLINE!

The theme for me for this next season is Discipline. Over the next 10 Months I am going to be focusing on my art & faith and create in myself a disciplined mind, body, and spirit. My goal is to be able to hear and know where the Lord wants me to go, to be in good physical condition that I can get there, and know my craft so well that I can flow with the Holy Spirit without having to stop due to my own criticizims of the art. I want to be able to "play/paint by heart"! Currently for the Month of March I will be focusing on Faith & the power of the tongue, The Book of Hebrews, and still life.

Felt Flower

Here's two rows in on the felt flower I made. I took some more pictures with the camera and hopefully I will get some time with the computer to upload them. The flower turned out great in my opinion. Hopefully I will get some more supplies and will make more. I have a huge supply of felt at home.

FELT FLOWERS

Felt flowers. This is what I have so far. Liquid stitches and felt & a heavy books and a cup of beans. But I may end up using a whole tube of liquid stitches.

Self Portrait #1

Here's a better picture. I think later I will delete the one I took yesterday...I look so sullen and serious. It's weird for me to look at pictures of myself or look at myself really. It's something that for a large part of my life I have avoided doing. Even now when I stand before the mirror I constantly critique my image.

Pounded flower prints.

Pounded flower prints.

Shaving Cream + Food Coloring + Little Hands + Watercolor Paper = Awesome Paper!

These are the awesome outcome of shaving cream, food coloring, and watercolor paper. Isaiah and I had a blast making these, even Gracie got in on the action! A word of caution though...food coloring does stain your fingers and probably stains your clothes as well. I love the silky almost crushed suede feel the paper has after it's dried.

So are you inspired? Wanna try yourself? 1) Spray shaving cream all over clean cookie sheet. 2) add drops of desired food coloring. 3) mix the food coloring in with fingers or knife to spread out but not too much. Just make sure shaving cream covers the whole surface. 4) take card and press into shaving cream 5) peel off and lay shaving cream up to dry. 6) once dry, if there is excess dried shaving cream on card. wipe it off with a paper towel.
You can use this techique to make any kind of marbled paper. For ATC's, altered books, greeting cards, art journals, whatever you need pretty paper for.

Go manifest God through creativity! Be blessed!

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