After 44 days I fell off the drawing/posting horse. I’m back on again. I’m going to play a little catch up in my posting and just post 2 a day  for the next week or so until I have all my drawings on the blog-o. I have some awesome sweetness to share with you in [...]

The drawing people trials begin again. You know, I never tried to draw anyone until my sophmore year in high school… in comparison I’ve been drawing plants since I was a little kiddo and animals since I was 8 or so. I have a few years of catch up work on portraits, people, and face [...]

I took yesterday off at the office to work in my studio. I’m working on a piece for the Beyond Audubon juried show in Chicago. Let’s see if I can get it done and images sent in by the 10th. I just learned about it last weekend.  Go go go!

Drawing knitting is freaking hard. It’s like a big smooshy organic, geometric structure with so much texture you just get lost in it. Sure I could render every single stitch, but how do you get the idea across that it’s knit fabric without doing that? How do you do a 10 minute study of knitting [...]

I just got my order from JetPens.com in the mail yesterday. I’m in mechanical + fancy pens heaven right now. My camera battery is charging right now, when it’s ready to go, I’ll snap a few pictures of the whole lot and show them off.

Hey, today is day 20 with no misses. I’m on the cusp of three weeks. I think I can keep this up no problem. I cleaned up my home studio area this morning and started work on Beef it’s what’s for dinner (food chain series) piece again. I love that steer and it’s about time [...]

We had our first Ames C.art Drawing meet up tonight. It was so much fun! I drew a little knit pin cushion with a B4 pencil, water color pencils, and a white pen. I really enjoyed the evening drawing away and that spread of drawing supplies was so awesome. I wish I could have them [...]