Because Whimsical Always Makes You Feel Better!
...are very hard to draw! I have always loved Jacobean designs, since way before I even knew what they were called. I still remember the first time I heard the term. I was wearing a skirt with a flowery pattern and someone complimented it, saying, "That's very Jacobean". Not wanting to admit my ignorance of …
You may have seen this before... It's from Foster and Panda's adventure, "Safari", when Foster wanted to go to Africa to visit his big cat relatives. In this photo, Panda has jumped up onto a zebra's back and jokes that they may be his long-lost relatives. Foster, as usual, admonishes him to get down, fearing …
Yay! Inktober is done! Yes, I know it's November, but at least I finished my drawings on the first, so it may still have been October 31 somewhere in the world... So I only had three left to go when I posted "Inktober, Part 2". The words were "double", "jolt", and "slice". For "double" I thought …
But first, a review of Inktober, Part 1... I know you have been wondering (or not) where the rest of my "Inktober" drawings have been. Well, most of them have been in my mind, up until this week, when I realized I was so far behind I that I had to do about 10 drawings …
I got a new idea! What if, on each of Foster and Panda's adventure posts, I was also able to include a free, printable coloring page for kids? (Or, let's face it, grown-ups too.) Then, to avoid having to draw frequently repeated images, what if I could scan them into the computer so …
One thing I didn't expect when I started this blog was that I would "meet" so many interesting and nice people (and pets) out there in the "blog world". Along with Foster's "blog friends" we have also found some really cool blogs about art. (Just as a reminder, this did start out to be an "art …
I cannot tell you how many colored pencils have passed through my hands in thirty years of teaching. After retiring, one would think I would never want to see another colored pencil again, but... These girls are drawing a background for a play we did in one of my English learner classes, (somewhere around 2010 …
As I was thinking of how I could incorporate more art into my "art-related blog", it occurred to me that, since it's almost Christmas, I should do a post featuring Christmas art. My first thought was to go to my computer and find my own art, but then I started thinking of other types of …
As probably know by now, whenever I see a project, craft or art form that I like, I almost always have to try it myself. Naturally that would have to include lettering! Of course, getting a new inspiration (for me, anyway) usually involves buying something: books, new pens, new paints, new drawing pads...But in keeping …
"I just want to drink coffee and make pretty things." When I first saw the phrase on Pinterest, it was one of those things that rang true as soon as I read it. I thought, yes, that's a pretty accurate description of me at the moment. Let me explain... One of the first things I …