Illustration Friday

The topic for Illustration Friday is "Tea," so I thought I'd post this one. It's not new — I did it maybe 10 years ago.

In other news: I had an email from my daughter this morning saying that her friend AJ had blog rolled me. I don't have a clue as to what that means, but AJ is one of the funniest people inhabiting the internet so it's probably a good thing.

Christmas Presents

I decided to try out some of the Christmas presents my husband gave me -- Some water brushes and a Blue Bean portable watercolor case. Took a brain-break from the computer and sketched one of the bottles siting around my desk and painted the washes with the waterbrushes. I'm pretty impressed. The pans in the Blue Bean rewet pretty well. Can't wait to take it on the road when the weather warms up.

I'm finally a blogger!

My main reason for entering the world of blogging is to make myself draw and paint. I went through a period of time not long ago when I was not feeling myself (I was so crabby I was starting to annoy myself) and finally came to the conclusion that my main problem was that I was not creating art. I have a creative job but that is not enough; I need soul-restoring activity that involves paper, charcoal, graphite, ink, paint, brushes, pens, pencils, canvas — anything but the computer. My goal to start is to post something new at least once a week, and hopefully more often, working up to a daily post.

To start off, here is a drawing (graphite on paper) I did for a story in my daughter's book, Aidmheil.