Sketchbook
Posted: September 6, 2011 Filed under: Bridge to Terabithia 2 Comments
Blind contour drawing of shoe, baseball mitt, and candlestick for my first art class.
Sketch of same shoe from same class. 10 minutes! I had to increase the contrast on the image so you could actually see the pencil. Sorry it makes the stripes too dark.
Relaxing evening. I have no idea how to use watercolors, I'm trying to figure it out. I love the look of watercolor text. Also, triangles.
My friend-and-neighbor Holly asked me to make invitations for her daughter Lucy's birthday party. I still secretly think Holly was just being nice to me.
More ideas for the invitations. The cake on the top is the one I used on my own join-us-for-cake invitations, which I still haven't shown you. Mine had more candles, though.
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Posted: September 4, 2011 Filed under: Howl's Moving Castle Leave a commentMy talented friend and neighbor Bridget is giving away a print of one of her recent watercolors – your choice! Enter the giveaway here on her blog, and make sure you check out the painting I’d pick. The collage below shows some of the other paintings you can choose from.
P.S. Right now I’m taking art lessons from Bridget. How cool is that?!
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Posted: September 1, 2011 Filed under: Great Expectations 1 CommentMy adorable baby loves to follow her brother around. She can crawl pretty fast, but it seems like jr wants to walk, like the Bwun does. At 10 months, though, jr can’t walk unaided. She doesn’t have very good balance yet and she needs a lot of practice before she’ll be ready to walk on her own.
I had another epiphany recently (I’m on a roll!). As I think about the personal traits I want to change in myself, I tend to become easily discouraged. My perceived biggest weakness, for instance, is that I lack self-discipline. But how on earth am I supposed to develop self-discipline? Here’s what I realized: I can’t suddenly be perfect. Maybe I can’t even expect to suddenly be a little better. It will probably take months of slow practice without any discernible improvement. And – more importantly – I need help!
I expect this is something everyone else knows and I just figured out for the nth time, but put into a new context, I appreciated the epiphany.
Now, who wants to help me be a better person?
Not pictured: walking. Or standing, even.
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