sunday doodles

Sometimes I get a little obsessed

with an image.

Can you guess what my current obsession is?

It's feathers.

And I had so much fun adding this one to my 

church sketchbook!

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving

full of food, family and friends

(and thankful-ness, of course).

sunday doodles

When I made this journal

at Calligraphy Northwest last June,

we started with some blank sheets 

of Arches text wove and added some gestural marks 

to give some texture to otherwise blank pages.

This page had some nice dark spaces

to play off of.

sunday doodles

Our pastor has taken on the huge task

of looking at the entire Bible and putting it all into one big context.

He is doing a great job on this sermon series and

that's a huge task!

contour drawing challenge: day 3

today's subject: a shoe

contour drawing challenge: day 2

Today I added a little 

colored pencil to my contour drawing.

And Abby's drawing

It's a busy day today, so we did these in a hurry.

I'm glad we spent even a little time on it though.

I can feel my drawing skills getting better already :)

contour drawing challenge: day 1

Last week I was inspired to do a 

30 day challenge where I do a simple

contour drawing each week day for four weeks.

It started today and I'm pleased to tell you 

that my sweet daughter Abby is joining me in the challenge.

Here's my drawing for the day

And here are some pics of Abby's drawing

It's so fun to do this together!  And, with

two people in the same house doing it we are less likely

to forget a day.

Feel free to join Abby and I in this little drawing challenge.

See you back here tomorrow!

sunday doodoles

I really liked playing with my 

white pen on this page.

I used a white

Uniball Signo.

It's one of my favs!

It was also fun to add some flowers with some 

sparkly paint - although it's hard to see the shimmer in this photo.

challenge

A friend of mine, Emily, has challenged herself to do something new

for a month and blog about it.  This got me thinking that I

should challenge myself to do something new for a month and share

it here.

Backstory/Confession: I am a horrible drawer.

It is a constant frustration of mine that I have never given much time

to developing my drawing skills.  So, I have decided

to do a simple contour drawing each weekday 

for the next 4 weeks, starting on Monday.

I decided a contour drawing would be realistic and not very intimidating.

They aren't supposed to look that great to begin with, so 

hopefully I won't psych myself out.

I did a quick one yesterday to test the waters.

Then I thought it would look cool if I added a little watercolor.

Would you like to join me in this little creative challenge?

Feel free to post pics/links in the comments section

and we can inch our way to being more disciplined with drawing together.

sunday doodles

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Lots of text in this one.

Sometimes a long sermon is a good thing :)

cards, cards, cards

I have been working hard on a new line

of hand lettered cards over the past few days.

These are all hand lettered,

no reproductions here.

These will be available in Spokane at

Pottery Place Plus

and aNeMonE Handmade Paper Flowers.