Always Ready to Watercolor

I was going through some pictures to send to a friend and I came across this photo of my open purse during Watercolor/Journaling Class (Catherine Carey, Petoskey, MI).  I love that class and am looking forward to "signing up" for the same class this summer.  I always need to be refreshed--'Don't try to paint the "whole thing",  Keep it simple, Draw/paint what you see, etc'.   

Drawing AT Church

I went to a Ladies' Missionary Luncheon at our Church and this Pewter-looking Vase (?) was our centerpiece....full of Spring-y looking flowers and a sweet pink bow on the side.  So I got out my Gelly-roll Pen and my pack of watercolor postcard blanks and sketched this very quickly--then watercolored at home.
I ended up making a thinking-of-you note-card out of it, and then sent it to a friend who is very not well at the time (won't go into details).  I also printed this Bible Verse inside because it made me think of her when I read it today.  :-)    "The Lord your God is with you,  he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."  Zephaniah 3:17 niv.
  

Covering a Sketchbook

I just covered an AquaBee Sketchbook for my Granddaughter.  She designed the (Dark Green) Fabric along the left side, and the (Scrapbooking) Papers I used to cover the rest of it....also the "cut-out" that I cut from one of her papers.  She is an Illustrator/Designer for another Company now--but these papers and Fabric are available at JoAnn's.  She also designed some "Plush-Pals" that youngsters 6 and up can "sew" and stuff!  They are very cute.
I enclosed the AquaBee (chosen because I love the sketch paper inside) in a plastic case with a bow because my Son was visiting her in KC Kansas--and was able to deliver it for me :-)  :-)

Need Some Colors....

It's the end of February and everything is very Wintery-looking....nothing much to paint outside so I went into my "archives" and looked for one of my favorites.....turned out to be my button picture.  This was fun to sketch and watercolor.  Catherine Carey had painted some buttons on her blog for a demo and I thought about all the buttons I have in a bag so I picked out some and painted them.   I added the needle and thread later (I had already drawn the line around the buttons) and someone said it looked like thread--so I added a needle :-) 

Sindbad's on the River

We went downtown to Sindbad's (before Christmas) to have one of our favorites there -- The Ocean Perch Dinner -- It was decorated to look very festive for the Holidays.  I always like their Spicy Tomato Juice without the alcohol (other wise known as a virgin mary) because they give you 3 Giant olives :-)   I sketched the drink and finally watercolored it at home!  Very hard to get the color correct for Tomato Juice  :-)

Watercoloring the Alphabet

We did a fun thing several years ago--I divided a  page in my watercolor journal into 6 squares and sketched something from daily life each day going through the alphabet.  This is my A, B, C, D, E, & F  page.
It was a good thing to do to keep into watercolor during the Winter.  I may do it again.....

Snow last week...

We had snow last week several times and this is what my front walk looked like after the Snow-Shovelers cleared the walk (to our Condo).  Thank goodness we don't need to shovel any longer :-)
Last Night it rained and today it is 54' and all the snow melted.  This is a watercolor that I did last year, but needed to change my post so I went into my "archives" and found this one.   Happy New Year!