My blue day, and my latest bird.

These pictures are from Thursday. I’m not sure why I didn’t post them right off the bat.
I’ve been reading a novel that I found in the lobby of my apartment building. It is about a village in England during the Plague. It is dark, doesn’t make for very good bedtime reading, and [...]

First real day of spring (for me, anyway)

I got to go on a mini-bike ride, it was almost warm, and the cherry blossoms were out in full force.
Every year I attempt to take pictures of them, and to paint them, but nothing ever seems to come close to the real deal.
Last night I had the worst insomnia I’ve had for awhile. [...]

Ruby’s paints

So…they’re not MY art supplies, but they got used. I didn’t get a picture of what I did because it irritated me. The picture at the bottom was a picture Ruby drew recently. I LOVE it.

I was going to do some art last night, but two things interfered. 1) It [...]

Probably not going to make it, but I gave it a shot.

I had a fantasy of filling up this journal before going on my trip, so that I could take my new smaller one. Oh well - I guess I will have to take them both.
I spent the evening last night scribbling with my watercolor pencils and watching the second and third episodes of the [...]

And so the work begins…

Utterly uninspired and without ideas, but I kept at it. Although I have no idea what I ended up with (two pieces of paper stuck together with two grommets?). I used some watercolors, watercolor paper, and 2 grommets (?). At this rate it will be a very long time before I [...]

I have a lot of art supplies.

Sometimes I take them out and use them to make things, but often I get stingy - they are expensive, and I don’t want to waste. I put pressure on myself to only use them if I am going to do something “good”. Umm - needless to say, that leads to me [...]