Little joys

It has been a long time since I was able to take a moment to draw. I so enjoyed spending some time with my sketch book today. Feels like therapy!!

1/29/10 Zentangle

Trying to do a Zentangle every day. We'll see how long I last.....
1/29/10 Zentangle
Originally uploaded by Viane2008

Adrift

I drew this while I was at home in a totally quiet house. It took an hour or so. I sort of like it, but there are not enough places for your eye to rest (it's too busy). Oh well, atleast I got in some drawing time before work!

The latest EDiM efforts....

These little drawings are what I have been working on the last couple of days....when I should have been working on other things......I need therapy.

Another EDiM entry.....really on a roll yesterday!

Still working on Celtic knots as a part of a Zentangle. This one worked out better than I thought it would. I used fine sharpies and Pitt brush pens for color.

Almost Every day in May....

These two drawings really represent about four days of art. I have very little time to draw on the days I work, especially on weekdays. So I did a little each day until they were done. I am trying to get the Celtic knot art down. It is difficult but very rewarding. I zentangled the knots....

A Zen Art card for no reason what so ever....

It has been a week since I started this card. I am doing it in spare minutes. I enjoyed the process and I think I am getting back to where I was before winter froze the inspiration out of my bones. I will be doing a couple of short art classes for the homeschool kiddos again, so I am starting to feel good about my pens and my hands. sigh.

I am going to participate in an ATC swap. I haven't done one in a while and I still have one to send that fills me with guilt. I keep losing the third card for the swap that is 3 months late. I told myself that I would not do another swap unless the cards were done before I signed up. So the cards are done and I have signed on the dotted line. I like one more than the other, but I won't tell which.

A Spikey Zentangle

I did this little doodle for a weekly challenge in the group Zentangle Doodles. I am not sure that this is spikey, but it sure is pointy!

Hands On

This doodle was inspired the art of Margaret Storer-Roche. (Hi, Margaret, should you ever see this. I am a fan of yours). It took 4 or 5 days to complete and I enjoyed every moment of it. A couple of my friends think I have a future as a tattoo artist. I beg to differ.

Creature from the Blue Lagoon

I did this little doodle in my pocket sized sketchbook. I kind of creeped out some of my friends (and family). I think I have been watching too much SciFi. Anyway, I did it with my beloved Pitt Pens and put the shadows in with one of those water soluable sketching pencils.

Rend: an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.

I thought that my creativity had taken leave of me. Gone on to greener pastures as it were. But I had to make some ATC's for swaps that I had signed up for. So I kept trying. I have thrown away much of what I have made lately, but yesterday I had what I consider to be a bit of success. It just goes to show, never give up. I call it "Rent" as in torn asunder....

What I did today instead of folding laundry...

Ok, now. I will go fold laundry. I just had to get this out of my system!

A few more doodles...

I have been so busy with family and other things lately, I haven't had much time for drawing. I have done a few things though. The Southwest style pots were done for a Southwest swap. I have four more cards to do for this swap.




This odd little drawing I just did today to see if I could still draw something. It has been over a week, I think, since I have picked up my pen. It is interesting at least. (update: someone actually requested that I trade this one with her. How cool! And so is the card she is sending me.)




This drawing was just another practice that I did last week. Wierd, but I kind of like it. Hopefully, I will have a real chance to draw on my next day off. The school year is looming and it will absorb all the time that I am not at work on workdays. I can almost wrap my mind around the start of school now. I was afraid for a while that I would not have the umph to get going. I am trusting the Father for the means this year.....

A Couple of practice cards from last week

I was just practicing some patterns here and trying to get a 3D look.


This one was done with my new Sharpie markers. I think I need a 12 Step group. I have a pen/marker addiction!

Long, long day

Today Barry flew off to CA for a family renunion. We accidently got up at 4AM because Barry set the alarm clock wrong. Only no one noticed that it was an hour early until we were all up and dressed. Anyway, we went to CR and dropped him off at the airport and then Jon and I hung out and did some shopping. I got a set of 24 fine point Sharpies. I have been playing with them all evening, but my best effort was done without them.
This is my first effort using the Sharpies. I don't like it and I don't think that I can salvage it. I will probably just toss it.
This is my final effort. The second one has disappeared twice from the page while I was formatting things and I am giving up for tonight. Good Grief!!! Anyway, This one I like. It is done on the back of a time card....you know, the ones we used in the dark ages to clock in at work. When my last employer changed time clocks, I got a box of thousands of old timecards. We used to only use them as bookmarks but now I am using them to doodle on.

The Pineapple

This was fun to do. My daughter and I drew a squiggle on an ATC and then traded. This picture developed from a random line that my daughter drew. I had lots of fun figuring it out. It is done with Pitt pens, gel ink pens and sharpies. The the second picture, I have erased out the line that my daughter drew for me. Just so you know, I am left handed and I was erasing with my right hand on the mouse -- thus the jagged line. To see the card my daughter made go to the link for Just stARTing Out.

A Nod To Our Town's Yearly Festival

In rural America every town has its annual fair or festival. It is a lot of fun for most of us. My girls and their families will be here for it this year. I am excited more about that than the goings on. I will be involved in the parade this year with our community puppet group. That should be a bunch of fun. I know the grand kids will be enthralled by the puppets. There is also free watermelon and a seed spitting contest (gross). The University has had carnival-type games for everyone on their campus. One year they had "Human Bowling" where they strapped you into a big metal ball and rolled you towards fluffy bowling pins. Another time they had a game where you were attached to a flexible cord. You were supposed to run as far as you could away from your point of origin and set down a marker where upon you were snapped back to where you started by the cord. I think the participants were being cheered on by the local chiropractors.
This is the last WC card I have done and the fourth one in my set to send in for the trade. It didn't take nearly as long as the watermelon picture to do but I like it better and it fits in more with the traditional Zentangle-type art. So now I have four cards ready to go. Hoping to mail tomorrow!

Rapunzel

This is a drawing that I started last night and pretty much thought I would toss. I fussed with it a little today and I like it a little better. I may continue to fuss with it, who knows? I have always liked the idea of doing something based on a fairy tale. Can you find Rapunzel? I know she is not in a tower, she is in the Keep. An evil wizard did not put her there, her dad did. And he is going to keep an eye on her until she is atleast 30!