December Art / #17 put to bed

 Ate a lot of fruit...

 

 Tried to win the $638 million lottery.  Didn't win anything at the company Christmas party either.

 

 Treated Mom to spa as her Christmas present.  My friend, Kathy, invited us to dinner at her church function.

 

 OMG!  I finished another sketchbook.  (Wondering what number this is.)  The end view on the scanner just looked interesting.  I had stuff on the cover too.

Okay, I think Smash #1 was "sketchbook" #16 so this would be sketchbook #17.

November art

 I finished all my work at work and felt like drawing stuff on my desk, I felt so rusty. It triggered a creative flood...couldn't wait to get home.  These are in the Altered Journal.

October art

 The fern was a happy, successful experiment in the "crispy crunchy mom-made" sketchbook.  So I was ready to follow my idea.  Unfortunately, after that my paint clogged and I couldn't make it work anymore.

Yay more inspiration

This is a repost from last week.

 

It's a good weekend.

 

Altered Journal - a modified spiral notebook.

Creative weekend

I altered a spiral notebook.  Most altered notebooks I looked at only show the cover.  Why?  I keep my stuff inside the notebook.

 

New favorite wine

Acrylic & ink in Smash #2.  I haven't been to Olive Garden for over a year.  Our table was given a complimentary taste of wine.  This was the first time I've ever had a wine tasting that I would actually buy. I've only had one favorite since 1991 (yes I remember exactly when I discovered it.)  Now I can add two more to my Favorites List.

Blue Bulldog

Acrylic in my 2013 journal 5x7 inch.  This has been fun but I'm out of references for this series.

Painting again, finally

Acrylics in the 6x8 inch Strathmore #2.  Hoping this will be sketchbook #17.  I've put together a 6-compartment acrylic palette of 5 colors.  Maybe having it in easy reach will encourage little quickies like these.

Last page of SMASH#1

Damn, I never intended to buy another SMASH book again because I made a couple of my own mixed media books by recycling a couple of my half-used wirebound notebooks.  But I was at Michaels yesterday looking for something small to buy so I can get a 40% off coupon for a larger purchase.  There in the bargain racks was another SMASH book of the same size for $5, wow!  There is no plastic cover or pen--so what?  New one has photo pockets. 

Palm Springs, CA

View from the room at Palm Springs Tennis Resort.  I've had no time for sketching/painting this year because I've been burning the candle in 5 places in April!  Another one of those wicks will burn itself out by next week, thank God!  That's two down.  It took all three days (that's all the vacation I could spare) for me to de-stress so that I could get anything down in my sketchbook.  This is Inktense blocks in my 6x8 inch "2013 sketchbook."

I'll draw on anything!

I've had these "tattoo sticks" (gel pens by papermate) for at least 13 years--in a drawer.  I guess I've seen enough of those tattoo cover-up shows I finally "get it."  I've only ever used them for line drawings before and they always looked like crap.  I liked this enough (to share).  I've never been so attach to an image or phrase enough to get anything permanently inked into my skin.

10 minute quickie

I felt so bad that I bought another sketchbook when I've barely done anything in my 2013 sketchbook and 1/4 of the year has already passed.  I am determined to fill this one up by December 31.  I've been crazy busy, no time to sketch.  I hadn't done graphite in so long, my soft pencils & stomps have run away to another dimension.  I had to buy new ones.