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!

Angels, Angels, Angels

There has been a burst of angel swaps appearing on AFA lately, and since I love drawing angels I had to sign up for all of them! The first swap was simply hd/hp angels.

The next one was a tear-art angel swap. The rules were you could only use paper and glue to create your angels. No scissors or pens were allowed to add any embellishments. Since I always make my students do tear art (with fabulous results, I might add) I had to sign up for this fun swap too!

Cute Critters With Wings Swap

For this swap we had to add wings to any wingless creature we wanted.

Fairy Fun

Creative Combo Swap

For this swap there were two long lists of random words, and for each card, we had to pick a word from column A and a word from Column B and mash them together. Here are mine:

Angelic Sheep

Charlie Brown as a Robot

Memaid Under the Bed

Prehistoric Mr. Spock

Victorian Mr. Potato Head