Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on December 30, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Entering the new year is a walk through a doorway. It occured to me that the less baggage we take with us through this doorway, the more likely we are to receive the blessings of the new year, which undoubtedly will come in surprising forms.
I took a piece of an old acrylic painting, drew [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on December 29, 2006 | No Comments »
A luxurious half hour to kill today, in between Jazzercise and picking Andy up at basketball practice. I went to my favorite breakfast place, Coffee Catz, and ordered a breakfast muffin special. The counter girl seemed a little spaced out when she took the order, so when she showed up at my table [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on December 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Andy likes to use my digital camera (which I use to capture images for this blog) for all manner of experiments. So up comes a whole string of Andy mug shots on my computer, some of which I’m not sure how he captured on his own. I had to stop everything and sketch [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on December 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Got up early this morning and picked up a book on Feng Shui and Space Clearing - clearing out the old moldy stagnant disease and disaster prone energy - making room for the winds of the new year to bring restoration, abundance of health and creativity and love and energy to move ahead with all [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on December 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Christmas eve. My visiting 87 year old mother gets herself beautifully arrayed for the season with her Christmasy sweater and jewelry and stations herself on the living room sofa under layers of afghans (our home is drafty!) while all the holiday bustle swirls around her. Her large print book from home fills the [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on December 22, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I finally got around to putting color on the sketch I did while waiting earlier this week for my son’s prescription for Pencillin to be filled at 7pm at Kaiser Hospital pharmacy. Not particularly good timing, unless you love to sketch. One hour and fifteen minutes later I finally walked out with the [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on December 20, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I almost felt like a witch stirring her brew with this one. When I was done, it was too wet to put the words on, so I’ll add them later. But I’ll tell you, it had a lot of “nothing’s going right” and “when does the holiday fun begin?” in it. But looking [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I know we shouldn’t complain at 22 degrees. Could be much worse. . .but it never snows here.
At these temps we could have our first white Christmas!
In a lesson last week with my favorite little students we painted the sky first with watercolor, then the pine trees, and when it was dry, splattered on [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on December 18, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Well, I suppose it could be worse. But truly nothing has gone as planned for a while. Seems like I spend my days cancelling, postponing, rescheduling-one step forward two steps back. Blame it on those three planets together in the night sky? Maybe. Here I’m taking it out on my sketchbook. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2006 | 4 Comments »
This is what lights up my little art mind. Oh, the bliss of art “stuff”! and having it all out in front of you ready to be grabbed. In my house I freak out at this kind of clutter, but not here in the studio sanctuary.
