A Rainy Cold Late October Day

Perfect Day for a Hot Steaming Cuppa

Spiced Chai, or Coffee, or a Latte, or Hot Chocolate or… what’s your favorite hot beverage for a cold, rainy day?

This is a small 4” x 6” drawing using the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and colored pencil.

A much-needed, very therapeutic Saturday of a little cleaning and a lot of sketching, reading, watching You've Got Mail for the 100,000th time... Pure Bliss... (except the cleaning - but the results are great!)

My first page of sketches is below, and then speaking of results...











The more finished sketch below may very well be my favorite sketch of my entire artistic career.  I don't know why, it just has it all to me... great lines and energy, my favorite things - cups that hold coffee or tea, and of course, books.  This sketch just feels like an accomplishment of sorts... And may I add that there is nothing, I mean NOTHING like a brand new Prismacolor colored pencil sharpened with an X-acto knife and chiseled ever so slightly at the end.  YUM!!  I had forgotten the pleasure that simple tool can bring.  The shadows in the white cup were too dark, so I used white gouache to lighten it and add highlights.  I started the line drawing with Faber-Castell PITT pens, and just went a little wild from there.  I do recommend knife sharpened colored pencils.  There is just something about the line they make.

And now I am having cinnamon coffee.  I drink mine black but I'm sure most people use cream if not cream and sugar - black and strong that's the way I like it... Just add a dash or two or three of cinnamon to the filter after you put the coffee in and then brew!  Perfect fall drink!  Happy Saturday evening everyone!

Colored Pencil Play

I became inspired by the book The Best of Colored Pencil - I found it this week in a used bookstore. Finally - some examples of more colorful abstract work in colored pencil. If you've never seen this book, I highly recommend it. It's a showcase of work by members of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA).

I Love Coffee - No Really!

I picked my favorite coffee cup up to wash it, and look!!!!

I had just been to lunch and completed this page - depicting of all things, HEARTS!  Only to return to the office and find my love for coffee displayed as a coffee stain!  How amazing is that!



New Marker Art!

5" x 7" 4" x 6"

Wanted to share some new marker drawings with you. I plan to use the one on the right in a collage (I think). The sale on markers (see earlier post) ends tomorrow; I'm thinking of going back again before it's too late and getting MORE MARKERS!! Somebody stop me! LOL

Saturday Evening Post

This is my messy corner of the living room - books, books, books! Oh how I love books!

Speaking of books...below are a couple of two-page spreads in my SKETCHbook --- I did these just now while my husband watched VA Tech play football -- fun! This has been a very cool (cold actually) fall day (felt like winter actually). We accomplished a lot today - cleaning, organizing, getting ready for winter with blankets and sweaters.





Happy Autumn Evening everyone!