Distelfink

Created a new bird pattern for a distelfink

This could lead to lots of possibilities

Adventures in Monotangles #17

This is my monotangle done with Knight's Bridge. It's the simplest of tangles and can be used a thousand different ways.

And while I'm playing catch up, I finished my monotangle from two weeks ago using Cadent. Cadent is one of my favorites, but I had never used it in a monotangle. I added color to distinguish the layers.

Meanwhile I have also missed The Bright Owl's challenges - there are only so many hours in the day - especially after the 8 hours at work. But here is a free form mandala that I drew recently.

And I have another hobby that consumes my time - I have been sewing birds!

Dining Duet

For Illustration Friday - this weeks topic is Duet

Drawn with ink and watercolor pencils on sketching paper.

Bird on a Rock

Learned some great tips from a wonderful library book, Drawing Birds by John Busby.


There's a lot of good information on bird drawing: history and styles and a bit of how-to's!

Another bright bird

I'm working on brightening up the colors on my artwork.

What Bird?

For those of you following my What Bird? series, here is another!

Five of Triangles

Perhaps my trip to the casino had me dreaming of playing cards! This was a fun ATC done with gold and black gel pens.

Repurposed paper

This ATC started with a piece of watercolor paper that my son painted a background on. I have several pieces in mottled colors that I'm cutting up and reusing for my own art.

Yellow Bird

Another primitive bird. This was done in pencil and watercolor on vellum, layered over the blue background.

Primitive Crow

I've been seeing a lot of cute primitive art lately. I particularly like the fabric ornies that people are creating. Then I saw some crows - well crows are a great symbol of power and I have always been attracted to them. So here is my second somewhat primitive crow.

Open Door

Another bird for Illustration Friday. The theme this week is 'open.' I feel like I'm taking a psychological free association test: OPEN --> DOOR After that I can't think of anything else and have go with my first thought. Thanks for looking!

Fabric ATC

Decided to stitch up another bird ATC today. The background fabric is shimmery and I think it will be pretty in several projects.

Peace Momentum

Illustration Friday

If only art could bring peace and joy to the world!

This is my new style bird, inspired by a cut and layered and rubberstamped greeting card I saw on the internet.