My First Date with Illustration

The Napkin

I need to draw and paint more. Today, while planning to make oxtail soup I did this painting of a napkin. My sheets are drying on the clothes line in the sunshine and earlier I did some stick removal from my yard.

Squirrel sketch with watercolor

i haven't forgotten how to draw!

1898 fisherman’s hat

this is the fisherman's hat adapted for a little girl. I did it in slightly smaller needles I believe size 7 and the yarn is ultra wool by borracco. there are a few little glitches which aren't too noticeable -mistakes I made -but I still think it came out OK.

The 1898 Hat

I was in a knitting store that featured finished products that one might want to make. A man I am dating picked out a hat that he wanted me to knit for him. He is a buddhist and has little attachment to things and he spends most of the colder months in warmer climates so i doubt if it will be for him. Besides I already knitted him a hat. He says it rides up over his ears, but it has a fold downable edge. Who ever gets this hat will need to have a big head. The original pattern was for a 19 circumference head which is pretty small. I knitted it on larger needles. My son has a 23 inch head so it might fit him. The nice thing about the 1898 hat is that the hat has a double layer around the ears and it had ear flaps. I doublt if I will give it to my son as I have made woolens for him before and the item ends up being thrown in the laundry and ruined.

that is just a pillow on the chair bunched up (the black object with circles)

abstract door art

This project is composed of many layers over time. It started with decoupaged bible pages and Koran pages and then had a composition of vines over it. It was then whitewashed and finally brownwashed! I was trying to normalize it then discovered the effect of a looking through aspect which i found very interesting.

Martians Invade!

The Martian sea grass basket landed on my mezzanine. It's taken them a few years to get here. They are here in response to the robotic invasion of their planet. Seriously, these creatures came from my subconscious mind in 2016. They are so cute that I saved them and am sharing them with you tonight.