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Good Pig
Out and about with my moleskine
At a meeting, various items on the table and a co-worker 
My last post for the year is an inchie overview of July. Hands down, doing the inchie drawings have been my favorite.
June was another mixed bag of drawings. One of my favorites was my pill bottle from when I was sick. So I used this as my overview using the techniques from my weekend class. The overall exercise is to take one item and draw it twenty different ways and frame each drawing. Another technique not shown before is to use only three colored pencils (canary yellow, magenta and true blue) to make all your colors. I love this exercise and thought about that as a challenge for myself going forward. Another post that I liked was the baby fairy. Check out the month if you have time.
May was another month I found difficult to decide what to do for an overview. I am enjoying the techniques I learned in my weekend workshop so I decided to redraw the J. Jill jacket in the different techniques. I drew a different fairy at the wishing well mixing colored pencil and watercolor pencil. My favorite inchie overview was this month. There were many fairies that I was pleased with also. Check out the month for varied drawings. 
The little green alien came back for his ray gun. He didn't stop with the gun. With the help the partying ants, he stole all of closet beastie's toys and treasures. The only thing he left was Baby Beastie's copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. March was another mish/mash of varied drawings. In the beginning of the month are my three favorite cat drawings from photos from a cat show. Scroll down the bottom of the month to see them.
This was an assignment from yesterday. The assignment was to pick something up outside, one natural thing and one man made and then write something about it. Click on the picture to see the writing.
The drawings above and below are the last thing we did which was to do a quick sketch of everyone in the class.
My favorite work of the day. Different ways to approach the sketch
Good Pig!! I fell in love with this pig and the teacher gave him to me! He is so very, very cool. Lucky me!! Thanks Marilyn!!! 
The teacher Marilyn Reaves 
A returning student... Her name is Eros 
A quick sketch of a wooden bird
An exercise in contour drawing
February was a mixed bag. My favorite drawings were done from photos that I took at a cat show. My biggest regret was doing these drawings in a moleskine sketchbook instead of on paper. By scrolling through the month you can see them. I didn't want to draw them again so my overview drawing is actually of some cats I didn't draw the first time around.
The month of January is probably one of my favorites. I drew inchies for most of the month. My favorites were Saul Steinburg, Winnie the Pooh, Eloise and Alice in Wonderland which I have used as my overview choice for this month.
I don't like the month of December and I never have. The weather is always bad and the sun seems to have disappeared. I also don't like Christmas. It has always been my goal to go some place warm and where Christmas is not celebrated. I am still working on this. Reviewing my drawings for this month was disappointing. The only ones I liked were the one of my clock radio and of my pal Bentley.
I realize that this year I have not advanced as much as I would have liked in drawing from my imagination. November was a mixed bag of drawings. I didn't try to redraw my favorite in this recap which was a drawing of a book. Don't forget to invite a fairy to tea day, they are always happy to join you.
Hmmm, is that Alien saying something? Click on for a better view.
I have a confession to make and that is I am really glad that my year long quest is coming to an end. I will be spending most of the rest of this last month on doing a daily drawing of an overview for each month of the past year. I am surprised that I have been able to do this everyday including the posting. Of course now that I am nearing the end, I had internet problems for the past two days, thus the late posting today. So I started in July of 2008 and started to flake so as of August 1, 2008 I have kept my word and drawn and posted everyday. I just redrew some of my favorites for the month. You can see the first drawings for July here and August here.
Audience member during the pre-show lecture
Audience members waiting outside and musicians (top drawing) doing a pre-show lecture
Audience members at a concert, left waiting outside, right waiting for the concert to begin 
I was trying something new...working with some sharpies I had in my art room. 
A garden container on Tory's patio.
My first attempt at needle felting. I'll be adding stars and some embellishments.. 
This has been one of my favorite things to draw. This will be my last one...
Hoppy Vanderhare is Muffy's best bud. This is her rain gear. Below is an attempt at ball point pen to give you and idea of the colors.
So Sunday I went to Hughes Water Gardens to sketch.
An attempt to draw a big pond. Drawing water is very hard.
On my way out I saw this nest and baby birds. What a wonderful gift.
I just kept snapping pictures and caught these two.
And the big news: I finished one small moleskine sketchbook. I started on Jan. 4 and finished exactly 6 months later on July 5. 
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