I have been watching with delight a house finch make her nest in a honeysuckle bush right outside the back door. She laid three light blue speckled eggs and has sat faithfully day after day even enduring a sand storm one day and rain the next. After baby birds hatched she and the father finch [...]
Illustration from ” The Long Dark Scary Night” by Pat Holt Dylan’s parents have just told him it is time to get ready for bed. He is really quite afraid of the dark – just the thought of turning the light off is not something he is looking forward to -
I have been working on a Quiet book for my granddaughters to use when they are expected to be quiet – at church, in the doctor’s office or maybe on Sunday afternoon. It has been a fun and distracting project, not much pen and ink drawing getting done. But it is fabric art so I [...]
Canada Geese study – geese in flight, sitting on nest and nest with eggs:
I added to the pages for the Quiet Book – some of these ideas are found on other sites for quiet books and some I came up with myself . . .
the sweet song of the robin whispers of spring . . . pencil sketch of the European robin
The wool on this highland long haired sheep was the reason for wanting to attempt it’s drawing. So much character in all those curls!
I have been working up a storm on a fabric art project! Making a quiet book for my granddaughters. Another person has very nicely described a quiet book as: “a set of fabric activity pages bound together with the intent of instilling calmness and restful playtime for babies and toddlers in the event of the [...]
I have always loved to draw old fashioned wagons with large spoked wheels – the light playing across the wooden pieces and its shadow casting on the ground nearby.
This is a slight deviation from my illustration work but I actually love working with a needle and thread almost as much as with a pen and ink. My two little granddaughters ages 3 and 2 are learning to sit quietly in church and there is another waiting in the wings who is age 3 [...]