PaulaJust a new banner to kick off the idea of "spring". My gosh it's certainly not happening here today in Montreal! It's bone-chillin' coooooold out there! And I'm feelin' it inside, too. The sun is shining bright, but the temperatures are in the single digits (fahrenheit). 5 degrees with a strong wind ...
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Church Sketches: Sitting on the Left
These are actually fun to do; like a coloring book page. I do a relatively quick sketch and color it later after scanning it. We sat on the left side-front today. I know at some of the churches I've attended, people like to sit in the same place every week. Creatures of habit, I guess. ...
IF: Tea
I was working on a number of practice sketches a few months back of a bird having some tea. I posted this one and this one. All are a little different but not much. It definitely fits the tea theme.
Ice Logges
I found this old drawings while I was straightening up some areas of my studio. My guess is I was 7 or 8 years old, which was when I started a cartoon called "Water Works" (personafied waterdrops as characters) for a third grade assignment. I thought it had an appropriate theme for a salute to the Winter ...
For Binky
Too tired to do more than post but thank you all for your kind IF comments. Always appreciated!
IF: Song
I did this little spot illustration as part of a page of others depicting the life of David (King of Israel, in the lineage of Jesus...OT stuff) for part of some curriculum. There's a text that goes along with it (1 Samuel 16:14-23). Interesting story in how David's recruited from his family shepherding ...
A Late Winter's Cleaning
Helpful child. Mucking things up as much as she's cleaning. : ) ------------ Well, I'm happy to say that I FINALLY got some PDF samples up on my website. It took me long enough but sometimes it comes together when it comes together. I have more to come but I can put a ...
IF: Simple
A number of years ago I had a client who wanted a series of very simple drawings for a booklet she was putting together for those working with the autistic. The figures denoted and demonstrated excercises the autistic person could perform. Blelow is a Martian (simply drawn) performing a very simple head excercise. A-one, two...A-three, four...
Watch Yourself Change
My hours are all fouled up. For some reason, since the holidays, I've been working nights and sleeping mornings. I've made attempts to get my hours back on a more normal track, but to be quite honest, I like working at night so I haven't worried too much about it. As long as ...
"Four Things" Tag
Cindy Woods at Learning Daily tagged me for this meme: Four Jobs I've Had: Soda jerk/cake decorator (Baskin-Robbins) Summer camp art director (Cape Cod) Elementary school coach Elementary school teacher Four Movies I Can See Over And Over: Maybe I'm taking this too literally, but I can't think of ANY movies that I'd want ...
Church Sketches: Donkey For Jesus
It's been a few weeks since I've done any church sketching, but yesterday I was able to break out the sketchbook. During corporate prayers, someone prayed for an organization called "Donkey For Jesus", hence the donkeys--and Chinese donkeys. And I ended up sitting in back of the same person from this sketch. I'm getting ...
Firefly In Jar
I did a bunch of little thumbs to come up with a layout for a small spot illustration of a firefly in a jar... Thumb #6 was picked and worked up. I've (again) been fiddling with the backgrounds so you see the first illustration that I did (lightish blue background), then with the background ...
Girl In Field 2
More fun with background and color changes. Interesting how different the two pieces feel by simply changing the color (though I did add the water in the background horizon and made the girl larger and moved her forward a bit on the top illustration). Text falls in the open area of the piece. Maybe it's not fair to ...