Relax!

Time to take a deep breath and relax.Sometimes it takes everything out of you to meet the other people's needs.With this kind of job and a family to take care of.At the end of the week you do not have anything left.So the main goal for this gloomy weekend is to relax and find some inner peace.
This doodle/drawing was completed last summer just for fun while watching my favourite talk shows.

Some more illustrations from last year

Can't believe it is almost the middle of September and this is my first post for this month.Life tries really hard to get in the way of my blogging!Too many things to do and no enough time.
Well,today the things are going really good so far.Almost all the chores were done in time,my kid was  at school and the computer was waiting patiently for me.So I embraced this opportunity and here I am,at the computer.Sometimes I wonder why I do that.The blogging ,I mean.To brag about myself and the things I do and make?I don't know.I think I do it more as therapy; to distract myself from the hardships of life,to try to look at my life from a different perspective and ,I hope, to inspire somebody the way I get inspired by the other people's blogs.
These three illustrations were inspired by Christmas and the flying away year of the rabbit, 2011.

An old time lady

If I were a kids' book illustrator I would draw like this.Maybe.

From my sketchbook.

Inspired

I painted this drawings inspired by the move The Yellow Submarine by the Beatles.

Summer Challenge#6 and #7

These are the last two sketches of my summer challenge.They were completed in my Mead sketch book with Pilot ink pen and Faber Castell water color pencils.I used my reference photos from our trip to the small city of Decorah,Iowa.It is a charming little city with preserved old buildings,art galleries and cute gift and antique shops down town.In the first sketch you can see an interesting building downtown Decorah and in the second a couple of musicians singing for some kind of charity at the Farmers' Market.

Talking Monkey

I did this drawing for fun.It is my daughter talking monkey.It makes short records of what you say and then when you press the play button it repeats it.
I drew it with ink and colored pencils in my sketch book,size 9x12.

Sonya drawing

This is a sketch of my daughter Sonya completed in ink and colored pencils on paper.It is in my sketchbook from the period 2006/2007.She is about 4 years old here.Just like her mother she likes to draw and paint and do crafts.