A Collage

This is the collage I did as an exercise for Walking in This World. I think its telling me to slow down, enjoy the music, the sights, the smells, and the colors of life.

Artist Date

Today I took myself on an artist date. It was nothing fancy. I didn't even have to leave the comfort of my home. The house was quiet and I was alone so I let myself play with some of my software -- Photoshop Elements. I opened a random clip from my clip art file to play with. I started adding layers, gradients, playing with brushes, the color picker, layer styles and types. When I was finished my creation was too cute to trash so I saved it. This is my first Walking 2007 piece and it was a lot of fun making it. Sometimes art isn't planned--it just happens.

Baby Camryn

Here are some pictures of little Camryn Leigh.

Nicole's Baby Shower

Callie showning off while Tayah enjoys her refreshment.

Tayah is happy now. Cheryl and Sue.


The guests had a great time too!

Nobody went away hungry or prizeless.

Nicole's Baby Shower

Sue made the most gorgeous cake--Strawberry Shortcake!!!

Nicole's Baby Shower

These are the handmade items from Aunt Patti.

Nicole's Baby Shower

Camryn got lots of nice clothes including several made by the aunts. Patti knitted two sweaters, a blanket, and monogrammed many items especially for Cami. Sue made some darling onesies and outfits and a Strawberry Shortcake quilt with satin binding. Sue Canute monogrammed some darling outfits and Nicole's mom made her a cute fluffy quilt. The rest of us bought the darling outfits she got.

EDM #54 -- Draw Someone or Something You Love

This is Caleb who turned four this summer. He is my first grandchild. I have a bit of a special bond with him as he was a year old before I missed spending a day with him. That was hard.

EMD # 42 -- Draw Something You are Thankful for

This is my second grandson Elijah. We call him Eli. He was three this summer. He will soon have a new little sister named Camryn. I'm not only thankful for Elijah but that soon he will not be an only child. He wants to see his new baby sister so bad. He calls her Cami Camryn. It's so cute.

EDM #26 - Draw anything you like

This is my only (so far) granddaughter Tayah. She is 13 months old. She will be joined by a little cousin Camryn who is due January 3, 2007. Then I will have two little girlies! Yeah!!

EDM #56 -- Self-Portrait

Here are a pair of self portraits I did a while back. The first is in graphite and the second in colored pencil. In an effort to remove the background in Photoshop Elements I lost some of the color of my hair. I'll have to rescan this one.

EDM #41 -- Draw a Landmark of Your City

I did these sketches in pen and ink a couple of years ago for a swap I was in. They will do for the landmark challenge until I get caught up. Soon I hope to be drawing something new.

Odds - N - Ends

This spool of thread was supposed to be a practice sketch of lines. I added some watercolor to spruce it up a bit.

EDM #61 Grouping of Objects

Draw a grouping of two or more similar objects.

This is a picture of my pin cushion done in colored pencil.

EDM #74 -- Draw Some Clouds

These are terrible. At least it gives me something

to do over.

EDM # 65 -- Draw a Nose

Another facial piece for my oddball portrait.

I'm going to have to put them all together into a digital collage just to see what it ends up looking like. Later though. I still have a lot of catching up to do on my sketching.

EDM #10 -- One of My First Drawings

EDM # 10 -- Draw a hand

This one is from a Betty Edwards exercise. It is pretty bad because it makes my fingers look short and chubby which is the opposite of what they are. Guess I was concentrating on lines and shading instead of proportions.

EDM #53 -- Draw a Mouth

Here is my drawing of a mouth but I'm not talking about it. I really don't have much to say except that if I put all these facial parts together I could have a portrait. An odd looking portrait to be sure but hey- - !

EDM #79 -- Huh??

EDM # 79 -- Draw an Ear.

What? I can't hear you. I seem to be missing an ear.

This was a lot more fun to draw than I thought it would be.

EDM #33 -- Draw an Eye

This is my

EDM #33 -- Draw an eye.

Done in graphite in my moleskine sketchbook.