Contour Drawing Harbor Springs MI

Since I bound my new book, I've been trying to use it as an every-day record of my visits to wherever. While we were in Petoskey, MI--my husband and I took an extra day and visited Harbor Springs. I saw this house and thought it would make a good contour drawing--which Catherine is often encouraging us to do.
Here's my first try...It's a little crooked, but I think that's the idea! I lifted the pen only to do the windows. Fun!

Sunset on Little Traverse Bay/Petoskey, Michigan

We had several gorgeous sunsets in Petoskey (Michigan) while we were there. They are very hard (for me) to capture in watercolor. It's always fun to see what one can do!

Bookbinding a Personal W/C Journal

This week I attended a Bookbinding Class to make a personal watercolor journal. The nice thing about this is we put watercolor paper in the book and also a few pages of sketchpaper...thus we can use this book as a personal "diary" of sketches/watercolors of things we see or experience day to day. It took a whole day to "make and bind the book." (It has a clear cover on it for protection) That is why there are relections on it when I photographed. The next day, we painted in it--just to "dive in" immediately and take the jitters out of painting in a brand-new book (fearing that we would make a mistake and ruin it.) This book is bound like a regular book, so I can open it up flat and paint right across two pages.
So I printed my first entry...and the book so you could get an idea of what this is all about.
BTW, I used papers that my Granddaughter Laura designed--and it was hard to make a choice between which design to use. :-)

Drawing in Church/Clouds Petoskey MI

The Church Choir was back after Summer Vacation...They were fantastic! They sang a toe-tapping version of "When the Saints go Marchin' In." Then the Choir Director read the Psalm that I printed on the side of the sketch.
Then we left for Petoskey, MI where I will take a two-day Bookbinding (sketchbook) Class. We watched the Sunset down by the Petoskey lighthouse--so I tried to capture what I could see of it. I'm sure I didn't do it justice. About an hour later, it thundered, lighteninged, and poured rain.

Saturday Afternoon Football

Getting ready to relax (under my favorite afghan) to watch the football game this afternoon--Go Blue!

I was 20 minutes early for my hair appt. this afternoon, so I got out my (Altoid's) Tin of paints and my Purse-size (4 x 5-1/4) Sketchbook and painted my hairdresser shampooing the Client in front of me. Kept me busy until she was ready for me :-)

Clouds Again

Drawing clouds again...today it is Mostly Cloudy...and all I had with me was my "purse-size" sketchbook. It's a little messy, but there were a lot of clouds, and it's hard to sketch in a fast-moving car :-) There were small peeks of blue which I probably have too many of...also, it is very cold for this time of the year! I think it's 63' and it's 2 p.m.