Ahhhhh

Whewwww - TGIM

After this weekend I Needed a Monday!

Time Flies

Viola

What a difference a day (or two) can make.

Parasol

Perhaps I have posted too many floral sketches lately ? humm - I need to "branch out" but this one little blossom, called to me, so here it is.

Emerging

Suddenly the emerging lily blooms are everywhere - the deer have not found them yet! Maybe I will have some blooms soon! Stay tuned.

Joy of Early Summer

A Fresh local treat that lasts a short time into summer! All too brief, but blueberry season is next in line.

EDM 228 Laugh

I can't post the "word" here, (a slang word for breasts) it Really Did make me Laugh - Kids do say the darnedest things!! (had to use a adv photo to get an idea of their facade to sketch )

More WCP flowers

Thankfully this looks better today than it did last night. As soon as I got home I picked a few blossoms from the yard (heavy rain expected AGAIN) and plopped them in a cup by my drawing chair. Not really happy with this, I know I need to work on more Mixing to vary the hues. I have a rose ready to go tonight - wish me luck !

WCP wild flower

I am really struggling with water color pencils here - This little flower caught my eye on my walk, nice simple structure for a wcp sketch but not a lot of depth here.

Staff of Life

Nothing better than Real Bread, warm from the oven!!

EDM 227 Tote

I confess, I am a Bag Lady - I love tote bags and have more than I care to admit. These sturdy canvas totes are my favorites, I have all sorts of sizes and colors and handle lengths - I could live In these things. Because I have so many colors I could not commit to a color here!

DSFDF- veggies

Different Strokes from Different Folks submission - Last night I just needed a break from my Water Color Pencil Class. I did this in my handbook journal and it came out better than I thought - although I wish my shadows were less flat.

WCP Rock exercise

It was evening before I could start on this exercise. I didn't want to work from a photo, so I got the only rock in the house - my door stop slab picked up at Bar Harbor, Maine. - Pretty - I pretend that is a vein of gold.

Kate's landscape demo

I chose to follow the landscape demo in Kate's WCP book - I think I need more colors - and yet I am pleased with the result, I added greens to reflect spring in my version . The sky is just what I wanted and all done with pencil. NOT happy with my tree grove, and the right side conveys a steep slope and not enough spring green ( not happy with my yellow pencils). But I got the gist of the exercise I think.

Trees and Bark Study

Did my tree/bark study yesterday when I got home from work - not happy with the scan but the sketch looks better today than I thought :)

EDM 226 "Screw"

Or so my Navy Husband / sailor told me.

WCP Value sketches

Last night I worked up 4 value sketches for Kate Johnson's online Water Color Pencil Class - it certainly is helpful with layout and values which are so Key!! My scanner, however does not like black and white apparently. I am sure there is a setting somewhere I need to adjust - sigh - something else to fiddle with.

At any rate, here they are. (graphite in WCP sketchbook)

Peas Please

Nuggets of green gold - Love them right off the vine.

WCP tomatoes

I just dove in, my tomato plant is full of green tomatoes and just screamed to be sketched. Of course I have to dive in and try a complete spread and disregard the class progression - AND I used my usual sketch book - not the book chosen for water color pencil work. But here it is, and boy do I have a lot to learn!

EDM 225 Sticky

I wanted to find something different for this challenge. Time escaped me and last night I realized I had not sketched yet. For some strange reason my mind turned to okra, which I have only cooked once from raw - slicing it revealed a very sticky, slimy interior, I have not forgotten ;-) Tasted great in the gumbo but there was an undeniable sticky factor. (I did this from memory !)