I like to draw and want to increase my drawing skills. Like anything else, getting better at something means you have to practice. So lately I have been trying to do more sketching of things– objects, landscapes, plants, etc. But … Continue reading →
The challenge for this week’s Documented Life Project was to do something “Monochromatic: use shades, tints and hues of one color.” While I was in New York, on one of my walks, I became fascinated with the designs on the … Continue reading →
The challenge for week 13 for the Documented Life Project was to: “Ask someone else to draw on your page – finish it.” Jan: Since I am visiting my 2 year old Songbird right now, I decided to ask her … Continue reading →
Week 12’s challenge for the Documented Life Project was to “Cut up a magazine…add!” Jan: In a magazine I found a full page of images of vegetables and fruit with light shining through them that looked perfect for my challenge.Rather than … Continue reading →
Mom, thankfully, has been keeping things going with the blog lately while my family has been having all kinds of adventures. You can find out all about that at Four Point Families. Well, things have settled down a little while … Continue reading →
This week doodling was given a little press in the news. You can watch the CBS News report here. Though the dictionary may define doodling as “drawing made absentmindedly” according to the news report, Sunni Brown, the author of The Doodle … Continue reading →
Last week we shared with you about a project called The Documented Life Project. Most of the people participating in that project are decorating their weekly planners with the challenges. Some are using the challenges as prompts for art journals … Continue reading →
Today I was playing around with some watercolor techniques described in the book The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: Landscapes by Gordon MacKensie.I saw an exercise that looked like it would be really simple to do– negative painting. Negative painting (or drawing) … Continue reading →
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes… ~John 3:8 We have the advantage now of technology to help us see where the wind … Continue reading →
Rainbow trees? That doesn’t make sense. Or does it? Have you seen this? I will be completely honest and say that it makes me sick to my stomach every time I look at it. Why? The clear approval/disapproval of the … Continue reading →