Sketchy Sketches

Whenever China

Whenever I haven't painted anything for a while I like to look at photos from my trip to China and wonder why I don't make some art from them...

…then I decide the photos ARE the art, as well as the memories.

Worth Reviewing: Bayou Book February 2012 and Who Will Cry - Artist Books

http://cocoonedartist.blogspot.com/2012/02/bayou-book.html
     and
http://cocoonedartist.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-artists-book-who-will-cry.html


On KPBS Spectrum I found a book artist: (counting-coup-press.blogspot.com) whose work inspires me to make another altered book!  I don't know where she lives, but would love to visit her in her studio.

Testing…testing...

I sketched this with aquarelle crayons and then sprayed it with water.  Didn't get a good effect so went over it with colored pentel pens. Still didn't like it much so I iphoto shopped it in vignette matte and sepia.  I like sepia best!

Cupid Unarmed

                                                                         

                                                                           

Up Juan Street Hill

direct watercolor

A Walk in the Park

Mission Bay

I sat in the car and sketched the people walking, running, skating by…maybe I should call this post "A Sit in the Park".

Street's End - Mission Hills

Trying something new: Direct Watercolor sketching (without a pencil drawing underneath).  Excited to do more!

Picassoesque

Believe it or not, this is a mermaid

Whatsit?

Applestract?  Abstrapple?  Birdbutt?

2013 Leftovers

behind 'Cupcakes' in Hillcrest

Meshuggah Shack on Goldfinch

Sea Lions rolling on the Beach...

or is it Rolls sea lioning on parchment paper? (Remember Bread and Butterfly?)

Baby January - Then and Now

3 months

13 years

The best is yet to come!

In 84 Lessons!

 from this...

to this...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Petite Pointsettia on Point

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My two year old potted pointsettia has morphed from a show-offy floozie to a prim ballerina.  I have fed her nothing but health food, no fat, which is probably why. Both her incarnations have been lovely, but another reduction in size next year will qualify her for a part in an opera with a very sad ending.

Santa's Baby

My Fickle Santa can't keep his hands off the Mantle Mermaid this year.  Every Christmas he has a new love. Go, Santa!!!

Treed & True! Top and Some of The Gang...

Mr. and Mrs. Noah Neptune have put all the animals to bed and are waiting for Santa who is trying to get the Way-Too-Big elephant to board the Ark.  What will happen next?

Christmas Card 2013..

"and it came to pass...

"…for one star differeth from another star in glory" Corrinthians 15:40:42

 The starlight the Wise Men saw is compared to the light from the satellite that has 'come to pass' in our time.  How wise are we now?

A Lotta Trees!

I took a lesson from Jean Seley and turned this painting into a card.  I like it!  Have always liked cards, but the practice of sending them seems to have fallen away.  After all these years I'm finally "an old fashioned girl".