A little distracted lately...

... and here's why.

Meet the 4-legged addition to our family: Bean!
He's a border collie/black lab mix and, yes, we are insane for doing this to ourselves. ;)

And the latest piece

I utilized charcoal and matte medium a lot in this one, as well as some clothing pattern paper.

Newest Journal

I love my little square hemp journal so much that I got its big sister, my medium rectangular hemp journal... which somehow does not flow off the tongue quite as easily. This is the cover and a few of the inside pages. Still want to dropkick Photoshop.

Okay!

Wow, what a lot of changes in so small a time-frame. New jobs, new house, new household accoutrements, deaths in the family, huge family dramas and my one and only kiddo getting her first job. Feels like I've been thrown into the deep end of the pool and I'm just now getting that first gasp of air after struggling to the surface! I sure do wish that life came with an instruction manual. I'm sure all of you have been in a similar position at some point.

ANYways. Art!

I finally got the scanner hooked up again, although Photoshop is running like a passed-out sloth on my old desktop for some reason.

There's so much to catch up on, it will likely take me a few days of scanscanscan-swear at Photoshop-scanscanscan.

Here's a few to start:

Not dead!

I have not died! I am just in the middle of the most hectic, sad, happy, funny, frustrating 3 month period of my life. Apologies go out to anyone reading from iATC! I had to be a total flake online in order to keep it all together off-line. Maybe one day I'll have enough time to get back to it. In the meantime, I don't even have my art supplies with me, so pencil is having to make do.

I'm hoping that by February I'll be able to make a more substantial post.

Sure do miss art-blog-surfing. :(

Here's a quick sketch before I go.

Happy Hallowe'en

A couple of Hallowe'en-y pieces from my little hemp journal. Text pages, watercolour, acrylic, oil pastel, coloured pencils, and more.

Maybekindasorta ATC addiction

I think I have a problem. No, not really! I've just been really busy lately, so the small, small format is working in my favour. These are all for iATC trades



I really need to get around to finalizing a few sketches for a book idea of my Aunt Linda's, but I'm kind of intimidated and I think my initial drawings reflect that. Wish me luck in getting over my self-imposed drawing block! Oy vey.