Starry night

Last night my step daughter,my daughter and I went outside to watch the meteor shower.The night sky was just gorgeous.Not even a cloud, just huge bright stars and the song of the crickets.
I could see one shooting star,my step daughter saw a couple only my little one could not see any.
She was sad but she still needs to learn a lot about patience.Anyway she saw a lot of interesting things this night-The Big Dipper,several aeroplane lights,the light of a satellite and a baby frog.
This sketch is an attempt to draw my daughter drawing in her sketchbook.The resemblance is a little bit off.Here she looks older than she is actually.Watercolor pencils.

Summer sketches-trees

Watercolor pencils in my sketchbook.

Summer sketches-animals

Watercolor pencils in my sketchbook.
Used pictures from newspapers
and magazines for inspiration.

Some summer sketches-flowers.

Both sketches were completed with watercolor pencils.For the first one I was inspired by a photo in Country Living magazine the British edition.For the second one I used my own picture as a reference.

Pencil sketches

I sketched these bunnies about 10 days ago .Early in the morning I noticed
three little rabbits jumping around in my front garden.They were fun
to watch and sketch.
Two of them had some kind
of problem-fighting
and jumping at each other.
Then they withdrew
at a safe distance and
went on with
their breakfast.
The third of them got
so brave that he tried
to climb on our porch
but then he got scared
and went back to
the grass.

Thank you,Anna Emilia!

Yesterday when I went to the Post Office there was a brown package awaiting for me.All the way from Finland,from Anna Emilia.She was sending me the watercolor painting I won from her give-away.Inside the brown package there was another pale green package and a small print of another of Anna Emilia's watercolors .It was wrapped so beautifully that I did not dear to open it right away. Eventually I did it and there it was -her wonderful delicately painted watercolor Midsummer Meadow .
It is so beautiful I can't take my eyes away from it.Thank you,Anna Emilia!

Hats

Looking through my photo archive I noticed this picture of baby hats.I made them as presents for two of my coworkers who were going to have baby boys in March.
Didn't they turn out really cute?
I was going to post about them
but then decided against it . To keep
it a surprise.
I should make some more of them for my Etsy shop.

One of the many joys of summer

Growing my own vegetables is one of the many joys that summer brings to me.I have a small veggie garden in my back yard that I love to tend

to.And now here comes the rewarding part of the gardening-harvesting your own vegetables.

These are the first veggies I picked up the other day.

Besides the pleasure it has an educational element into it.It teaches my little daughter where the food comes from.She likes to help with the garden and her favourite part is watering the plants.

One Belated Post

I promised to post about the ACEO I bought at the art fest in the park a couple or tree weeks ago but I am kind of late.Sorry about that.I have a serious reason for that.I have some health problems and at the moment I am recovering after surgery but let's not talk about that.I am doing really good.

The name of the local artist I bought the little watercolor painting from was Hannah C. Heyer.I fell in love with her delicate and fine brush stroke.It takes a lot of talent and fine skills to paint these tiny details in the small painting.And of course it was a winter landscape because I have something special about winter.I think I mentioned many times how much I love winter.

For the people who wonder how big the painting is I just would like to let you know that ACEO paintings are of the size of a trading card.Hannah Heyer has a blog- http://ambitioussnail.blogspot.com/ and an Etsy shop with the same name.You can visit them and admire her work yourself.

Happy 4 of July

Happy 4th of July to everybody.I hope all you have a wonderful weekend.

Keeping myself going-pencil drawings

Sometimes one feels like doing something creative but does not have any ideas or does not want to start too big of a project so she looks around and sees her daughter's math textbook with wonderful bright pictures.The faces of the little kids are so cute and expressive.Yea,why not?She grabs the regular #2 pencil and draws them in her sketchbook. So simple and a lot of fun.
That's what happened to me last week.The textbook is Math for second grade,Harcourt publisher.

Art in the park

These pictures are from the last Sunday.A local Art in the Park festival.A lot of local artists-jewelers,potters,wood and metal artists ,fine artists and mixed media and fabric artists.There was live music,dancers,petting zoo for the kids and a lot of good food.My family and I enjoyed every minute of it and I even bought a small painting /ACEO/from a local artist.
I will post about it next time.

I won,I won,I won!!!

I won Anna Emilia's give away from http://annaemilial.blogspot.com/.
It has been the first give-away I have ever won.It makes me so happy!
And I am twice happier that
I won this beautiful watercolor of Anna Emilia's !
I love to read Anna Emilia's blog for her beautiful art,photos and her poetic posts.It inspires me a lot with its creative atmosphere.
I have her blog in my reading list on the right side bar of my blog.You can go and check for yourself.

Our fun Saturday

There is no need to say that we had a lot of fun.It was my daughter first time on the Ferris wheel and on the bumpers cars and my first time on those cars too.I wanted to ride on the marry-go -around but it turned out that adults were not allowed to climb the horses.Now that was disappointing.And I could not help myself to take a picture of this cute little puppy.

Faces from the local newspaper

These are the two sketches I did on Monday and could not post because of the lousy weather and lack of good light.Today it is warm and sunny and the pictures turned out good.I don't say perfect because they could be better but you can get the idea.

:)Rainy Monday

Sometimes my dining room table looks like this. Actually most of the time.We are a creative family.At least some of us.
It has been raining the whole day today and my kid and I were stuck at home.Of course she drew pictures, wrote in her journal,watched TV and played on the computer and I drew a little bit.Too bad the light was no good and I could not take pictures.
I had to make a hard decision today,too and when I finally made up my mind I felt a huge relief.
And also talked on Skype to a friend I had not seen or talked for about twenty years.We were very good friends but life scattered us in different parts of the world and we lost touch with each other.
She had always broth me a good luck in the past so I hope our reunion in this hard moment of my life is a good sign.

Some sketches from the ball game

I am not that much of a sport lover.I love to watch winter sports and gymnastics but not too much ball games.
But anyway I like to sketch people who play sports.
I guess the movements of the human body fascinates me.

I did these sketches on a warm spring day ,I think in April.My daughter wanted to go to the Creek Side Park.We rode our bikes there and while she was having fun on the swing sets and climbing bars I was having fun sketching the kids playing base ball in the nearby play field.

Beautiful

Swimming pool time

Finally the summer is here and we can go to the swimming pool.

We spent almost two hours there yesterday.I had hard time convincing her to go home.She could not get enough of it.

The cloud

Experimenting with ink pen and markers.