Christmas Sketches

I spent Christmas week with some of my grandchildren.  These are the sketches that I managed to get done in a house with three adults, and eight children.  It was noisy, crowded, messy and fun, but not a lot of room to sketch. 

Some Sketches From My Oklahoma Thanksgiving Trip

Floral Sketch

Well, I know I've done some sketching between August and now, but it seems like I have not been posting.  Even this one was done several weeks ago, but I hadn't gotten around to putting color on it until today.   This was done from a photo of a bouquet that I received on Mothers' Day.  In my Strathmore Visual Journal.

More in the Folding Journal

Catching up with some of my posting.  These are sketches that I did when the grandkids were here in July, except for the last one that I did from a photo.   Some of the images are sideways - a glitch with my camera interacting with blogger, I think.

Folding Journals (continued)

Today we went to The Gardens at Wyckoff to sketch instead of going to the pool because it was cool this morning.  After packing up pencils, pens, and watercolor pencils for each of us, I forgot to pack my watercolors, so I did my (top three images) sketches with the kiddie Prang set I brought along.  Jadyn sketched several roses and used watercolor pencil and graphite.  And she sketched herself at Central Park from a photo.(bottom two images). 

Grandkids Week 1 - New Folding Journals

 My granddaughter, Jadyn, is here for a week, and we made folding, "meandering" journals per Cathy Johnson's video, made covers for them, and these are some of the sketches I've done so far.  They show some fiber art that we did the first day she was here, our trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, relaxing the next day after all the walking we did in NYC, and Jadyn making me a necklace that resembled one we saw at the museum gift shop.  Hope to do more sketches today.

African Violet

My friend Anna has a couple of African violet plants.  When they are in bloom I try to do a sketch or a painting of them, since I can't seem to grow those myself.  I don't think I get enough light in my house.  I don't think I've ever sketched the purple one before, but I love the contrast of the purple and the greens.