Another sketchbook entry from earlier this month. I'm such a Sentimental Lady...isn't that a song?
Just gotta get my own color on the walls, all the comforts of our home inside and a makeshift studio set up in the new digs and I'm sure all will be right as rain...
Illustration Friday Theme = Change
I recently celebrated my 16 year anniversary of moving to Chicago, quite a long time for someone who had only planned to stay a year or two. I commemorated by drawing all the places I have lived in my sketchbook...and tomorrow the change continues as we close on a new house in a new neighborhood. I never thought we'd leave this one but I guess it's true that the only thing that you can count on is change... so I will cherish the memories and wonderful things that have happened here and look forward to wonderful new adventures on Washtenaw.
Illustration Friday Theme = Safe
Earlier this summer we discovered a bird in our house, it was so frightened. I had to catch it (with very little help from Rich!) and release it back to the safety of the outdoors. This is a digitally colored drawing from my sketchbook.
Illustration Friday Topic = Insect
This is a sharpie drawing from my sketchbook - I scanned and digitally edited and colored it. I like fun and friendly insects - do you know any? I created a few new ones.
Illustration Friday topic = tea
this is a digitally colored ink drawing.
Tea for two and two for tea,
Tea for you and tea for me....
Illustration Friday Topic = Song
This is my sketchbook entry from September 12, 2003, the day Johnny Cash died. My Dad always used to sing and play his songs on the guitar, I remember the night my parents went to see his concert at the Mary E Sawyer Auditorium in LaCrosse, WI, I was too young to go...wish I had gone as an adult as I also love the songs he recorded in his later years.
Illustration Friday Topic = Simple
If someone else were pulling the strings
it would be a Simple life...but boring and uninspired.
Illustration Friday Topic = Chair
I do most of my sketchbook entries in the living room, these images were
definitely inspired by chairs - especially the "Napolean". The top
two images were done with a fading old Sharpie and the bottom
with my favorite pen, the Uniball VISION.