the great collapse

I haven't just sat down and drawn anything in so long. It's been a painful process but this sketchbook drawing is passable enough to share. I love the composer and complexity of my stacks and stacks of books some falling others standing strong. My childhood desk/bookshelf has been moved into the basement. I migrated all my books to my room just stacks upon stacks of them. With no where to go or be stored at the moment.  I hope that you enjoy my composer as much as I do as I am trying to figure what to do with them all. Some I could never part with much like old friends/memories and others are possibly heading to the used book store...  

Puppy Dog! "Give me a Kiss!"

 

                    


                      I may be having too much fun at this point. 
                        This here is a originally a photo I found 
                       online and then played with Photoshop 
                        a wee bit. I always love a golden mix!

Cola Bottles Repeat

I've been hard at work and finally getting to play again. My part time gig is crazy understaffed at the moment and that was before yesterdays events so we'll see how that plays out. I strained my back and wasn't able to do much of anything for about a week. But now I am back and in black! I am ready to play and create again! Luck for me I have great friends and loving family that always supports me and all my madness. That being said a good friend of mine that I've known for ever, and I mean forever, we've been friends since running camp in middle school! (Yes I was one of those kids that went to running camp.) Helped me out and set me up with Adobe suit. 

I've been playing for the past couple of days and this is a recreation of an earl post but still a whole heap of lot of fun. I love taking every day objects and giving them some character. I am still playing with this one and there may be a cola bottle re-amp part III if I like one in particular.  As always I'd love to know what you all think and if you have any suggestions or pointers as I play and work on projects!

Daises Love

Since my last daisy painting was so much fun to create and widely well received I am hoping to work to create a Daisy series and see where this adventure through the rabbit hole leads. My desk is a mess like much of my life and I truly hope that doesn't subtract from my work but only gives an idea of scale. 

Details: acrylic on cotton stretched canvas. 

Fields of Daises & Red Poppies

So good news bad news. I started painting again and even received some free canvases to work on. Which was an interesting experience over all. I was working full time for a canvas gilcee printing group out of Raleigh. Mostly customer service stuff but did work in the production center for a couple days and for there sister company that creates invitations. Which was no fun at all and I found it is amazing what people will say to someone in email when they are upset. I digress, after the peak holiday season there were a number of canvases that out customers choose to not have printed for an assortment of reasons and were given away. I found four of assorted sizes that I could paint over. Especially since I was laid off once again, no surprise since this seems to be my thing. I have lots of free time to paint and work on projects that I wish.

This painting is whatever you like it too be; I set it up as a field of daisies and red poppies. Though my over all mood is still up beat I really needed to paint something black and really really love this work. I started a sister canvas of just daisies that is going to be red and much much smaller. Like always really appreciate your support and any input or direction. 

Thank you,


Details: cotton stretched canvas, with acrylic. 

Pink Rose

This pink pastel was created a while ago but just re-found and scanned it in on my new computer. I really love the mess nature of pastel especially this week. Since everything always seems to be a mess especially when one looks to figure out the next step. One day everything might fall into place but not today that's for sure.

Details: pastel, on water color paper.

paint brush follow UP

As a follow up to my previous post, here is the same paint brush work all gussied up in it's best dress and makeup. I had a lot of fun playing with color and feel that this work gives scope of my mess life right now. By the way had a wonderfully creative productive day off yesterday; things are looking up.

Details: pencil, ink pen, acrylic on notebook paper.

Boxcar Children Hat Design

I really enjoyed creating this work and have been sitting on sharing it for so very long. It is a design adapted from the old Boxcar Children Wood Block prints for a new ball cap design for our Ultimate Frisbee team. They were recently unveiled this past week at practice so feel that I can finally share this work. I am so happy with the end result that Suzanne as able to achieve. From the word go she had a great idea and faith in my ability to act as a muse about the old wood block print idea/concept for the hats and armed with my work she insured that they became a finished product. I love the way the whole project turned out and thankful for her artistic musing and hard work that saw the hats through to completion. I'll wear mine till it falls apart; in truth It's long past time to retire my last Sandfleas hat.

For those interested, Boxcar will be heading to Mixed Sectionals in Chapel Hill this up coming weekend so everyone is rip with anticipation of how the team will fair. It's been a great season thus far and we've come so far already, winning our first tourney in Boxcar history and playing as a well oiled cohesive team. Only time will tell if we can win our place into Mixed Regionals held in Alabama at the end of September.  

Details: Ink pen on drawing paper. 



In other news this is my 100th post, it has been great sharing so many pieces of my work with you all and I truly appreciate the support that I have received. Thank you friends, family and greater artistic community. 

plastic cup

*This polypropylene cup uses 15% less plastic and creates

45% fewer carbon emissions than a cup made of PET.*

Be Brave

Green House Within the Trees

A little wrinkled, since it took a trip to the lake before being completed. This one was a tricky one restarted  twice before getting the layout on the page almost right. Wish I had worked a little larger; though it frames the page nicely. 

I feel that its work is more like a green house living above the rest; rather than a purely playful tree house. This one is freshly on my Etsy shop, if you would like a copy be sure to pick it up before I run out only making so many prints.

Details: Ink pen, paper.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155109199/green-house-tree-house?ref=shop_home_active

Bear to Water Color

This little guy is so cute with his little bear belly hang out. 

Details: Ink Pen, water color on paper.

Stepping Out into The Unknown

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to announce the reopening of sweet pink ink pen Etsy shop. Right now I am focusing my efforts on my tree house prints. I don't know anyone else right now that is creating such works and interested to see if people are really interested in my creative adventures.

They make me so happy and feel a great need to share joy and sense of creative adventure with others. Please take a peak and let me know what you think and if there is a work that you love that you don't see on my shop yet let me know that as well. It's still a work in process but feel that I have a number of works up to get the ball rolling. My hope is that it will inspire some adventures souls to step out into there childlike imagination once again especially if that person has lost that sense of wonderment. 



And for something completely different and because I feel the need to share a work with each posting here is an older drawing of my topsy-tervy muffin experiment. A favorite quick drawing that I created one chilly morning last October. 

roughness

Feeling a little rough around the edges but still love this work. Another work pulled from my homemade sketchbook hence the odd shape of the page. 

Had this amazing urge to use color again, I know amazing... I was strongly encouraged when I was a much younger artist to pick out the actual colors in my subject matter. That nothing was black or solidly one color to see the beauty in the play between light and dark. Shadows are rarely gray but takes on a darker shade of whatever is around it. 

Details: Color pencil, ink pen on Bristol board. 

Lily x2

So these are from a good while ago if your note the date, just got my scanner issue under control. They are included in my home made sketch book creation. Sorry about the delay since my last works were shared its been an intense couple of months and my life may or may not been flipped over couple times over.

Something I do love is to take the same subject matter and redraw using a different style. Seems to give me a better perceptive of the same subject. These are the result of an intense Lily cutting study that I undertook shortly after moving to Chapel Hill. They were the most lovely color purple and couldn't bring myself to undertake the daunting task of rendering them up to the level that I wanted with the media that I could find in my bag.

Details: Sketch book, graph-paper and sketch paper, marker, highlighter, ink pen.

Branching

 

Details: ink pen sketch paper

Pentagon Tree House

Its been a weird sort of week thus far. Though I did get free chocolate covered espresso beans yesterday. Score one for me but over all strange week. All the same I'll add my latest greatest tree house drawing and see what happens. 

Thank you to everyone that's been so supportive the past couple of months/years.

Details: Ink pen on paper.

Family Tree House

 

I feel that this tree house would be similar to one that my father would make with the help of my brothers and myself. Its simple in design and seems to dare a mothers since of reality that no one will be harmed while clamoring up and down in playing. Which adds to the adventure in the climbing.

Details: Ink on paper.

Birds Nest Tree House

This one has to be one of my favorites so far I love the way the spiraling stair case worked out. No matter what my design professors say about spiraling stair cases. The platform and actual tree house turned out better than I had expected which was a pleasant surprise and the composition as a whole makes me happy.

Details: Ink of paper.

Double Decker Tree House

Haven't been in the best of moods as of late, we'll blame it on the weather and high stress levels. All the same here's one of the four tree houses I've been working on as of late. Please enjoy; even if it feels a little off balance.

Details: Ink pen on paper.