Amaryllis 2014 part 2

I saw a small crack yesterday, and today the bud opened up to this.  It's so exciting to watch an amaryllis bloom!  It should look really interesting tomorrow.

Watching the Winter Olympics

I wanted to try sketching some of the winter Olympics.  It's not as easy as I thought.  The athletes move with the speed of light, and the cameras keep changing angles and never going back to the same pose.  I tried first with the figure skating, and that was impossible.  Then I tried downhill skiing, same thing.  But I got the idea to do ski jumping when I realized that there were only a few angles that the cameras always went back to.  It worked!  The speed skating worked out reasonably well too.  The snowboarding was tricky.  I had to watch a lot of runs to get what I had in mind.   I only did a few, because it was sort of frustrating waiting for a good pose, and waiting for it to recur. 

Amaryllis 2014

This sketch shows my new amaryllis plant from it's start to what it looks like right now. I have to confess that I had planned to only paint the part of the plant that is in the circle....but I have a short attention span sometimes, and already started painting the whole thing before I remembered that. So, a slight change of plan. LOL! I intend to do a few more sketches as the bud opens and perhaps a quarter sheet painting when the bloom is at it's peak. (If I'm not away at a collage workshop in Myrtle Beach when that happens).

Backyard Tree with Snow

A quick sketch of one of the spruces in my backyard after our latest snowstorm.  In my 300-page Flexi-Sketch.

More Snow

We are in the middle of another snowstorm.  I'm trying to stay warm and dry, but I liked the way my azaleas looked with various sized mounds and puffs of the white stuff.  I got lost a few times in those "puffs", but this is pretty much what my pretty pink azaleas look like during a February snowstorm.