Trading Fun

I also drew for a few swaps - fairytales and nursery rhymes! One of my favorite themes!

Monsters as Feelings

Individual trades by request or offered.

                    

Bookmarks

Sunsets swap - another favorite theme!

Wild swap

 

Catching Up...

Here are some of the things I've been working on the last couple months...since I went back to work full-time it isn't much. But I try and do some kind of art every day (even if it ends up in the trash...)

Drew this as a gift for Christmas - the original can be found here.

This was also a Christmas gift - just redrew, resized the fairy bookmarks into one piece.

 Just for fun...

Christmas Cards this year...by me and my littles.

  

Made this for my classroom to learn about the number 9 - maybe I'll have to turn the story into a book!

There are a few unfinished projects that are waiting to become finished...but we'll see when that happens.

Summer Drawing...

Not as much time for art as I had originally thought...but isn't that the way it always goes!?

Here's another bookmark for my reading buddy - it's our favorite one yet!

 Here's some of the cards for my nieces and nephews. I asked to know their favorite animal and then I try and find some version of that animal I feel like I could draw and then add in birthday things! I think the kids have been liking to get them in the mail :)

Also, my 5 year-old niece is quite the artist and we were using her cool sparkly pens on our beach trip this past weekend, and as we sat across from each other I noticed she was watching what I drew (upside-down!) and then would draw it on her own paper. Then she wanted to hang our artwork on the fridge, because of course! (we also made paper airplanes ala my designs because I couldn't remember the last step correctly - the kids were still impressed with my skills, haha).

And finally, I painted these story stones for a game for my kinders to play. My own kids played them on our beach trip as well. You pick out 5 rocks and then tell a story with whatever you get. My kids loved playing - I hope my students will too!

Artsy Summer

Well, I've been hoping to do more art since I'm on summer break...but there are a lot of things on my to-do list...so not as much as I'd hoped. But since I was feeling frustrated by my lack of time to dedicate to art I decided to jump back in with a blind drawing. I like taking an eyes-shut scribble and turning it into something pretty...

Here's the process and the finished product...

I also LOVE to read books - and a friend of mine (and book buddy) asked me to draw some bookmarks for her this summer. Here's the first few...there are two more waiting to be finished in my pile of half-colored art.

We're going to the beach next week with 10 kids under 10! Woo!

And last, I redrew this Bible verse so I could share it with the ladies at Bible study.

I've also been working on the hand-drawn birthday cards for the nieces and nephews, but some are still in the mail outstanding, so I won't post those until later. But it's been fun working on sending those out so those little guys know we're thinking about them on their special day!