laughable.

Beer me...I mean, I love you.

your love makes me fly

the dill is, I love you.

relieved.

lines.

I like lines.  Not standing in them...drawing them.  I like sortof - but not quite - parallel, repeated lines used to create shadow.  I like drawing people.  Kindof serious people drawn in a slightly weird-looking or naive way.  I like a little bizarreness.  Can you tell?

And I think these 2 people might be part of the reason why:  Edward Gorey, illustrator/writer.  Mateusz Skutnik, of Pastel Games.  Their artwork makes me happy when I look at it.  Very very happy.

Early Valentines

After being snowed in for a week my artistic inspiration has been taking shape in drawings such as a bottle with a human inside that has their face pressed uncomfortably against the glass.  I didn't really want to subject you all to that bizarreness.  This is my online sketchbook, afterall, not a therapy session.

I did, however, get bored enough to find an exacto knife to make myself a stencil (damask, of course) out of scotch tape covered paper.  Here are a few products resulting from cabin fever, my love for vintage wallpaper, a perfect husband, a gold paper plate (on which the paint for the stencil was), and a black sharpie.

Early Valentines for Mark.  He is, by the way, the greatest possible husband that can exist.  He - in his boredom - (while I was stenciling paper), managed to wash and fold everything in our house.  I mean everything.  Our clothes, towels, the dogs, the couch, everything.  He's the greatest.  As Holly Hunter said in Raising Arizona: "I looove him sooo much!"

Er...babe, if you're reading this...."I loooove you soooo much!"

bicycles

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike.

Just so you know, that's an elephant trunk sneaking up on him. I was feeling a little circus-y again, but Ellie and her rider didn't make the cut.

And with doodles on top.

Spunky.

Nothing like a blizzard to cause you to change your pace.  After an eventful day of playing in the snow, napping on the couch, eating, playing in the snow, eating, making hot chocolate, inducing vomiting in Mona because she drank said hot chocolate (she's fine.), more playing in the snow, talking to my sister while eating, trying to compete with Mark in "excitebike" on Nintendo, and playing "hide and seek" with the dogs (Mark and I alternate between hiding and a sicking the dogs on one another), I finally decided I should actually draw something.  

Had to pull out a new sketchbook, so I grabbed a new medium while in there.  Hello graphite.  I played with some sketches to help me capture the likeness and spunk of a friend's little girl for a painting I'll be doing soon.   Hope I'm up for the challenge.

Blizzard.

Here is my masterpiece slideshow created in iphoto.  I turned off the Ken Burns effect.  You're welcome.

Sweet music, I know.

If that doesn't work for you, click here.  

You don't get the sweet music, though.

*Update...another batch of pictures from the most recent romp.