Art Quilts

Here are a few of my art quilts. I do much better with fabric then with paint!

I saw this,

On someone's blog awhile back. I just can't remember who's. I wanted to see if I could do it. I can't figure out why everything I try to sketch is crooked. Everything slants to the left. Is it the way I hold the book? The pencil? My eyes? My brain?

Playground again.

I watercolored this and I tried to mix some of the colors together. I like the way it turned out for the most part.

Quick Sketch

This is a quick sketch I did sitting in the school parking lot. It is my first sketch in my moleskine, which I really like. I think I will use my watercolor pencils to add a little color to it. I'm not sure what that big tank is for. Maybe water?

Faces

Faces

Faces

My attempt at faces

These are my first attempts at faces. I have a LONG way to go but practice makes perfect right?

ATC's

These are some ATC's I made today for a copper swap I am in on another group. I think 5 is my limit on how many I can make. I run out of ideas too fast! I really like the way these came out.

Playground

And since I had my grandsons here we went to the play ground for awhile and I sketched this WHILE I was there in public. Lucky for me no one came around while I was doing it. I want to add some shading to it or maybe watercolor it.

Drawing for Dummies

These are a few of the doodles from the above book. It's a nice reference book for people like me who can't draw very well. I have just skimmed through it so far. I have had my two grandsons here with me for 4 days and they keep me busy!

More Journal pages

I think I might do a whole set of this with all the quotes I have found browsing Art sites.

Journal pages

Here are a few more of my journal pages. I am finding I like doing the painting more then doing the writing.

My kitchen

My father-in-law built this clock over 30 years ago. It was from a kit but you would never know that by looking at it. I remember going down to his house and I noticed the clock was stopped. I asked him if there was something wrong with it and he said no, he just didn't need to know it was 3:00a.m! It had been waking him up so he came down and stopped it.

More Fruit

Well I used watercolor pencils but I don't know what to do with the basket. It's white and the paper is white, should I leave it like it is?? Suggestions??

More Fruit

I saw this in a magazine I get every month. For me this was REALLY difficult. I wanted to post it before I painted it. I think I will use watercolors and give it a soft look. I photo is really dark.

Journal Page

I thought of this when they were having trouble on this last mission. I didn't know how to draw an astronaut so I had to just try from memory. I think he looks like one.

Challenge #18

This is the view out my kitchen doors. My cat was laying in front of them, since he loves watching the birds and the squirrls and chipmonks that come up on the deck but I can't sketch animals yet. He was really asleep on his back looking out the door with one eye open. His name is Jasper but we call him loafy. He weighs about 18lbs.

MY Page

This is my page in my journal. I don't know how anyone could do this everyday! It takes a lot of time to do one of these and to paint it. But I think they look great in my journal. I love the colors.

Teesha Moore

This is a Teesha Moore page I did in my journal. Some of these are her stamps that I don't have I just drew some of them looking at her catalog. Is that okay?? I don't want to get into trouble doing that. I just love her quirky style and zany people. If someone knows if this is wrong please let me know. Most of her stuff is really "out there"! I also watercolored this.