challenges 197, 201 and 202

Challenge 202 is draw a cookie. I drew a spritz and a Russian teaball, two of the family favorites for Christmas.

201-draw a stapler.

197-draw a remote. We have so many in our house now, and I cannot keep up with the new ones and which buttons have to be pushed in order to use which electronic item. Too much technology for my likes.

the yard sculptures

We made these from old fence wood. I've always wanted fun yard art. Now I have some.

What have you done with YOUR old fence wood?

19, 180 and 185

Challenge 19 is draw something you've made. We recently replaced part of our fence and the old wood inspired me to design and then make, with dh's help, 2 yard sculptures: a giraffe and a cow. Not all family members are enamored with them, but at least they are tastefully displayed in the backyard.









Challenge 180 is paint something in my favorite color. So I doodled some cows with all the different blues on my watercolor palette. I had just been out sketching cows, so they were fresh on my brain.















And challenge 185 is draw a cat, of which we have 2, and I draw them all the time, but Gilbert decided he'd stretch out in the cool grass and pose for me.

Challenges 178 and 179

178 was draw something red, so I did some raspberries that we picked from Nye farms in Georgia, Vermont. They were delicious. Ballpoint pen and watercolor.













179 is draw an onion. Ballpoint and watercolor.

Challenge 176--something summer

Summer means flipflops. I started drawing mine and after doing all the colors of the left one, I decided to simplify and left the colors off the right one. Then I did a pair with no colors, just a blue. Ballpoint and colored pencil on a summer afternoon on the porch.

Challenge 69--favorite beverage

I was drawing my hand after the advice in Drawing From Within, which encourages the artist to draw pages of hands for the rest of one's life, and I realized I was also drawing my favorite summer beverage!

Challenge 166 - draw a fish

166 fish
Originally uploaded by luv2draw

While on a sketchcrawl with some family members, we stopped at a fish hatchery and I drew this perch, which was a pale and sorry specimen of a perch compared to what we normally catch on the lake. Maybe perch in captivity lose their colors.