Finishing Out the 3MC
3 Materials Challenge: Day 29 Trying out crayon over color pencil… then some touches of color pencil over crayon. Materials used: Crayola color pencil (golden yellow) Crayola color pencil (white) Crayola crayon (midnight blue) 3 Materials Challenge: Day 30 This time started with crayon, then added color pencil… Materials used: color pencil (dark blue) Crayola […]
Last Week of January
I can’t wait for my mini version of the 3 Materials Challenge to be over. A wiser person would probably just have thrown in the towel by now, realizing that it wasn’t working and not worth the effort, but I’m too stubborn. It’s only a few more days, so I’ll just keep going until it’s […]
Ready for Something Different
I Want to Do This, That, & the Other! There are so many things I want to try, start, do—and so many other things that I should do, need to do, must do. One of the many things calling my name is string quilting on the treadle sewing machine. It’s been a while, and I […]
Still Keeping Up with 3MC!
3 Materials Challenge: Still Keeping Up You may have heard that the Gulf Coast has experienced some very unusual weather this week. I’m not sure exactly how much snow we received here at our house, but it was in excess of 6 inches—maybe more like 8 or so? Whatever it was, it’s much more snow […]
Just Getting It Done
3 Materials Challenge: Day 20 We’ve been told to expect a winter storm tomorrow on the Alabama Gulf Coast! Wintery precipitation is rare down here, as you might imagine, and forecasting it is difficult. So even though they’ve been mentioning the possibility for quite a few days, it has always been offered with a caveat […]
Another Day, Another 3MC
3 Materials Challenge: Day 19 Just wanted to get this done—(that’s the spirit!)—so I chose something off my desk. I have a couple of tiny ceramic figurines I used to use for brush rests. I don’t tend to use them for that purpose much, these days, but I’ve left them where they were, cozy amongst […]
Never Too Many Pumpkins
3 Materials Challenge: Day 18 I decided to doodle pumpkins today, based on some cute white ceramic pumpkins. (They’re part of a Christmas present from my parents this year.) My doodle isn’t an accurate copy of the actual physical objects, since I didn’t include decorative cut-outs in the larger ones, but they gave me the […]
Squirrel!
3 Materials Challenge: Day 17 Squirrels have been raiding our bald cypress this year, running up and down the tree and shredding the cones. There aren’t usually more than two or three on the tree at a time, I think, but I decided to increase the number in my cartoony doodle. Materials used: Uni-ball Vision […]
Another 3MC One
3 Materials Challenge: Day 16 Today’s sketch is not exactly inspired. This is what happens when it’s around 8pm, and as you’re sitting wondering what one earth to draw this time, you notice the scissors in the organizer. That’ll do. Materials used: Uni-ball Vision Needle micro (black) Hello Hobby brush pen (medium blue) Crayola Gel FX […]
Observational Overrated?
3 Materials Challenge: Day 15 I’m struggling to maintain the enthusiasm on this 3MC thing. As you saw yesterday, I’ve kind of thrown the “observational drawing” guideline/goal to the wind, but so far I’m still at least doodling something every day. I’m not sure if I’ll try to get back into the observational groove or not… […]