Prairie Girl's Food Journey Begins

I was frustrated with the stone paper that I was using for Brenda Swenson's 75 day challenge as my fiber tipped pens were running dry.  Quite a costly experience as a brand new pen was used almost every day.  I was on limbo for quite some time and did sketches here and there but did not post anything until today.  I am highly interested in food-aren't we all-but I love looking at cookbooks.  I have decided to learn more about food and have ordered two new journals from Brenda's Books on line www.brendabooks.com and explore food in her lovely handmade books. I love her hand bound journals which has hot pressed and cold pressed watercolour paper.

Every Day Matters #2-draw and lamp

I scanned this image in and because of the size of the sketchbook, it barely fits the scanner. I am learning so much in the last few days of my sketching experiences and I can feel my skills becoming stronger every day. As my yoga instructor who tells our class every day: "Practice, Practice, Practice and all is coming." Although I just started yoga once again, which I have been doing steadily since June, my body is slowly getting the strength and flexibility to do the poses. My yoga experience and journey is just a reminder that over time, my drawing skills, and observational skills are improving.

Every Day Matters#1 Draw a Shoe

Here is my first project for Every Day Matters. I have decided to dedicate one sketchbook for pen and ink and another sketchbook for ink and wash. The purpose? The pen and ink will focus on values, hatching and cross hatching effects and the ink and wash will focus on colour. I was very nervous when drawing this one because it was the running shoe that counts. There was no going back and no more practicing. Tomorrow I will be doing the final running shoe with watercolour and then I will do the challenges weekly while drawing every day for seventy five days for Brenda Swenson's challenge. The only thing with her challenge is that I will be doing in conjunction with pen contour drawings, shading with walnut ink or india ink. I have tried a new sketchbook for this one which is on stone paper. I am excited to start on Monday.