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Spray Bottle

Every Day in May-- EDM131, draw a spray bottle.

School Supplies

Every Day in May-- EDM 130, Draw school supplies.

R3

Every Day in May-- EDM129, draw a person doing something.

View Thru a Doorway

Every Day in May-- EDM128, draw a view thru a doorway from one interior room to another.  I didn't really like this topic and put it off until late at night.  I halfheartedly scribbled the view thru the walkway seperating our sunroom and breakfast/ hearthroom.  This is my little corner for drawing with windows everywhere and bookshelves and rolling supply carts for all my art junk.

Skyscape

Every Day in May-- EDM 127, draw a skyscape.  There have been way too many bad tornadoes this year.  Luckily they have all missed our area and our friends that live in Joplin where a monster one hit are ok.

 

Sponge

Every Day in May-- EDM 126, draw a sponge.

Bluejay

Every Day in May-- EDM125, draw a bird.

Tweety

Every Day in May--EDM 124, draw something yellow.

Cow Bell

Every Day in May--EDM 123, draw a bell.

Munny

Every day in May--EDM 122, draw somethinjg with shade.

Penny

Every Day in May--EDM 121, Draw a coin.

Flashlight

Every Day in May-- EDM120, draw a flashlight. 

Rocks

Every Day in May-- EDM 118, Draw rocks.  I took my sketch kit and book with me on my walk around the subdivision and park paths and stopped to do a quickie of this planting island.

 

Hairy

Every Day in May-- EDM 118, draw something with hair.  I just couldn't resist a cartoon...

Something Round

Every Day in May--EDM 117 draw something round.  I did this today for Laure Ferlita's Art Journal class and they seemed to fit the EDM theme for today....

Green Bear

Every Day in May-- EDM 116, draw something green.

Basket

Every Day in May-- EDM 115 draw a shopping cart or basket.

DH had my computer all day doing work on it and I am just now able to post-- long past midnight. However, since I'm still awake for me it is 'officially' still the 15th, LOL!!

Ugly Keepsake

Every Day in May-- EDM 114, draw something ugly you keep for sentimental reasons.

Fence

Every Day in May--EDM113, draw a fence.

Fresh

Every Day in May-- EDM 112, draw something fresh.

Sugarbowl

Every Day in May-- EDM 111, draw a bowl.

Flame

Every Day in May-- EDM 110, Draw a flame.

Clock

Every Day in May-- EDM 108, draw a clock.

Lightbulb

Every Day in May-- EDM challenge 108, draw a lightbulb.

News

Every Day in May-- EDM Challenge107, draw how you get your news.

Sour

Every Day Matters challenge 106-- draw something sour or tart.

Late night at Grams'. We came home after midnight and I rushed through this to get to bed....  Haven't slept yet, so it is 'officially' still the 6th.

Scissors

Every Day in May- EDM 105

Salt Shaker

Another Every Day in May entry.....EDM 104

Exercise Equipment

Todays challenge for Every Day in May was EDM 103-draw a piece of exercise equipment that you use to keep fit.  I chose one of our hex free weights to draw.  The grey color was boring so I just played a bit.....

Power Plug

Well the title say it all........EDM 102

Rub A Dub

EDM 101

A long time ago, I was really into teddy bears.  DH and I had given each other teddy bears when we were dating and we even had a teddy bear couple on our wedding cake, LOL!  He found out we were having our first baby when I gave him a gift bag with a teddy bear dressed in a diaper and booties.  Then R1 gave him a teddy in a bag for R2, R2 gave him one for R3, and R3 gave him one for R4.  After that he declared that he had enough  bears and if he ever saw another child coming towards him with a teddy bear in a gift bag he would run the other way  as fast as he could!!  About that time we also 'grew up' and moved our teddy bear decor into the kiddos' rooms.  Now the kiddos are outgrowing the teddy bears and slowly phasing them out of their rooms.  I'm surprised the boys still have this soap dish in their bathroom....

Every Day Matters challenge #10- Draw a hand

I took a bit of a break but I'm back drawing and posting.  I just got in a new sketchbook, the Raffine Art Sketch, from Jerry's Artorama and had to try it out.  It reminds me a lot of the Aquabee Super Deluxe Sketchbook.  It has nice heavy paper, 100 lb, that didn't buckle with watercolor.  Unfortunately, like the Aquabee, attempting to lift off color fuzzes up the paper.  I need to do some tests with pen and ink to see how that works out.  The sizing in the Aquabee I've been using keeps the ink from sinking into the paper and it takes a while to dry and smears easily.  Hopefully, the Raffine will do better with ink.

Here is my quick test watercolor in the Raffine sketchbook.  Yes, those are my real, natural nails and yep, they are green this week.  I love polishing my nails with fun colors!  Unfortunately, my sketch didn't do the color of the polish justice.  It is a really nice, shiny emerald green that has a sparkle to it like the  green paint on my van.  What can I say, I'm a redhead and I think there is a rule somewhere that we have to love green!

EDM Challenge #261

EDM challenge 261 - draw something related to the Winter Olympics.  This a drawing of the Inuksuk that Ilanaaq the Inunnguaq, the logo for the Winter Olympics is based on.

EDM#15 draw a tree

A little tree done in the van while waiting for the kiddos to finish up at the library.

EDM# 166 Draw a fish

Here is a little ink and watercolor pair of imagikoi.  I wanted to do something along the lines of the fish on crumpled masa paper in Art Escapes by Dory Kanter.  I found what I thought was a sheet of masa in my study, drew the fish, crumpled, and painted.  I'm not so sure the paper was masa, now.  It felt very soft and limp, almost like cloth, after I crumpled it and didn't really keep the creases.  I'd like to try this again on 'crisper' paper, that way the background might turn out with more veining and texture.  Still, it was fun and fast.  A nice little paste-in for my new journal.  Thought I'd never fill the old Handbook journal. I'm thinking on posting some of the entries that I'd done in it pre-blog, just to celebrate finishing it.

EDM#59 Sign of Spring

Here is a sketch of a sign of spring, or is it?  Around here spring is such an iffy, fickle season.  We keep having late cold snaps and even snow well into what should  be spring.  They had even forecasted snow for this weekend!!  Thankfully that didn't happen, but it was still cold.

EDM#76 Flowers

I just finished hacking and slashing at the jumbled honeysuckle vine and clematis tangle in my little garden.  The vines were growing through our wooden privacy fence in places and I'd started to worry about eventual damage to the fence.  So, I lopped off the bits growing through the fence and my Dear Hubby helped put three sections of latticework in front of the fence.  I think the honeysuckle will survive the surgery, but I can't tell if the clematis vine even made it through the winter.  It is tangled up so much with the other vines that the only way to tell where it grows is to wait for it to bloom.  Still it is a lovely effect, the blue blooms among the white and gold honeysuckle.  It was even nicer when the roses, placed in pots in front of the jumble, were alive.  Tempting to go buy some more David Austin roses, so old-fashioned and fragrant!!

EDM#163

EDM#163, originally uploaded by ffyrebird.

EDM Challenge #163 Draw a deck of cards. Finding the prop was a bit of a challenge. I had to search the house top to bottom but I was able to dig up a real deck of cards for the challenge. Having a house full of kids means I easily found four different types of Uno sets, scads of baseball cards, and role-playing card games but the real cards were buried deep in a closet. Go figure....

EDM#162

EDM#162, originally uploaded by ffyrebird.

EDM challenge #162, draw your breakfast.
Sorry, but I was hungry so this is just a fast and loose pencil sketch of my usual omelet in a pita. Nuke and eat....

EDM#4

EDM#4, originally uploaded by ffyrebird.

For EDM#4 I drew my chunky, primitive Knitter's mug. I love this mug- the nice solid heft to it, the glossy, blobby, black sheep shapes, the slick forest green glaze, and the rough unglazed exterior with the tool lines going round and round that are a reminder that it was made by a real human and not by a mindless machine. The older I get, the more I appreciate handmade items. They seem to have more soul in them.

EDM#3

EDM#3, originally uploaded by ffyrebird.

This is my bag for the EDM# 3 challenge. Inside the bag is my little Hitchhiker spinning wheel. If you are familiar with the Hitchhiker wheels, you will notice that mine doesn't have the hitchhiking hand/thumb cutout carry handle. I wanted it to be even more portable and got the version with the cut down top. That shaved several inches off so the wheel could fit in the frontseat floorboard area of a car. I've yet to try spinning in the car, however. The wheel does have the treadle in the shape of a huge barefoot. That is why this tote with sandals on it is so perfect for the wheel in my mind, besides the fact that I looove and collect anything from Life is Good!

EDM #2B

                                           

EDM #2B
Originally uploaded by ffyrebird 

Here is my go at EDM challenge #2, draw a lamp. I had to go find a photo of a lamp because at our house we just have overhead lighting, no lamps. I never even had given that any thought.

This is version B because I didn't like the wonky shadow on version A.  And here is version A.  After messing it up, I tried playing with it.  I was going for the "art journal" look.  Think I pretty much missed...

EDM#161 smells wonderful

EDM#161 smells wonderful
Originally uploaded by ffyrebird

This week the challenge was to draw something that smells wonderful. I chose the honeysuckle vines I planted along my fence. I remembered the smell from childhood and wanted some vines at my home. I also wanted the vines to attract birds to the yard. The birds seem to love the odd vine with reddish, purple, orange flowers on it. (I'm partial to the old fashioned white and yellow ones.) They also like to play in the copper feeder in the middle that I keep having to train the vine around. Obviously, the honeysuckle isn't blooming now so I filled in the blanks with some help from a gardening catalog. The bare bones of the vine and a few leaves are still there, giving me a skeleton to hang the drawing on and the birds a place to hide out.
This drawing was also the first time I used masking fluid in a painting. Talk about something that does NOT smell wonderful. Ammonia, yuckkkkk!!! I used it to save the white for the flower clusters. They should have looked white and yellow, but I think the yellow tried to win out. Still, I swear in real life the drawing doesn't look thaaaat yellow<cringe>, at least not as yellow as the scan seems to me.

EDM #1-- a shoe

EDM #1-- a shoe
Originally uploaded by ffyrebird

My first EveryDay Matters drawing challenge. Just a quick sketch of one of my old sandals.  And here is the source for the sketch, my poor old beat up, beloved, black birks.