The Creative Spirit

A couple of weeks ago I received my Zentangle kit. The technique used is somewhat similar to the first few exercises in the book Drawing wit...

I seen this photo of a darling little girl dressed like an angel at The Crone's Corner blog and had to draw her. Originally, I had plann...

The Every Day Matters challenge #144, draw something square. I decided to draw my ottomen because it sits between me and the TV and the boys...

From the movie The Shawshank Redemption (one of my fav's). Done in my recycled paper sketch book with graphite and white conte pencil. I...

I did this one last night while watching the Biggest Loser finally. I'm not overly happy with how it turned out tough. The nose is a bit...

This one was inspired by an image I saw in National Geographics. I didn't get the browns quite as dark as I would have liked to, but I l...

A fellow art blogger named Greg recomended a book to me, which I ordered right away (Thanks Greg!). The book is by Bert Dodson and is calle...

I haven't had time to make many of these lately. Here are two I just finished getting ready to trade today. As of now they are both avai...

This is my second attempt at drawing from my imagination (inspired by nina). I might color this later but I like how it looks with just the ...

I have this wonderful book called Facial Expressions by Mark Simon. It has hundreds of photos in it of different models making crazy faces. ...

Thursday night my boys had floor hockey at the local YMCA. I had my sketch book there and the lady sitting across from me was crocheting so ...

Inspired by Nina Johansson's challenge to draw from the imagination every day in December. I doubt I will manage to do this every day, ...