Still life

Finally broke down and did some drawing for the first time in about 8 months....

Vacation Sketching

I have the week off from work and am finally starting to wind down a bit. I promised myself (and others) I would do some drawing this week. It's been several months since I have drawn anything.. I guess I am an all-or-nothing kinda gal, so here goes....
Considering going on the sketching diet -- you have to draw your food before you can eat it.....
I really do love my iPod Video... I take it with me everywhere especially when exercising....
This is a little drink umbrella left over from Ethan's Birthday party....

So I went running tonight and my shins are killing me.. So while I was icing them down, I decided to draw my foot while I was waiting....

Hopefully more to come this week and/or I will get somewhat back into the drawing habit again...

A little sketching time.

Samantha and I had a 'girls day' while the guys were off camping yesterday. We went to lunch and did quite a bit of shopping. She and I both really enjoyed the 1 on 1 time together. Lots of fun!! Then she had a friend over for a sleep-over so I hung out it my room listening to Pandora radio and doing some light sketching... Above are the pants and shirt I bought from Old Navy...if you couldn't tell.. :-)
There is a picture of a girl on the tee shirt I just bought. I started sketching it and kind of embellished from there. This girl has a lot of hair!! I hope it doesnt make her neck tired. :-)

Portrait #15

I have been unmotivated to draw for a while now, as you can see, my last portrait post was in April! Being a holiday weekend hanging around the house with no excuses for why I couldn't draw I decided I had better at least try to draw something. So I pulled out my drawing stuff and my collection of pictures I have ripped out magazines, picked one at random, reminded myself it didn't matter if it turned out bad or not, and started to draw. Anyway, I had fun with it and was satisfied with the result.

The Sun is finally Shining!

I have been away a long time.. from drawing, that is. I have had a lot going on with work and family and just fell out of the habit of it. Honestly, I had no desire to draw. But I feel better when I do and worse when I don't and feeling worse takes away my desire to draw. Vicious cycle. Anyway, enough of that drama. Bleh!! Of course when I don't draw, I regress, but you have to just do it anyway. So this is a tiny little sketch I did at lunch time today. I parked my car under a tree at the lake I have parked near at lunch hundreds and hundreds of times over the last, dare i say, maybe 18 years. As they say, "the more things change the more they stay the same". Anyway, it has been raining here for a solid week. It was so depressing! Finally the skies have cleared to a beautiful sunny day. I liked the way the palm trees were reflected in the mirror surface of the windows on this building -- and did I mention it was sunny?! :-) Hopefully I will get back into the habit again.

Tami

Portrait #14

This is Oprah from the cover of the latest O Magazine. I used Watercolor Pencils, on Moleskine watercolor paper.

Portrait #13

Happy Easter. To see the photo I drew this from click here.