#61,62 and 63

I am far behind with the challenge but I do not loose hope to ketch up.Dreaming about flowers.Waiting for the spring.The birds are here but the warm and sunny weather is not.

#59 and 60

Here I go abstract.Oh,and the water in the creek went down.I hope we are out of the woods.Enjoying my weekend watching a lot of comedies and actually laughing.

#56,57 and 58

I am so behind with my challenge.Life is trying really hard to be in the way.Five days of debilitating migraine.Water up in the creek,water in the basement.Will there be a flood or not?
Bad news from around the world.
Trying to go back to normal.Concentrating on the important things in life.

#54 and 55

#52 and 53

The disaster in Japan

My heart is aching for the people of Japan.I can't post today.I have hard time thinking about anything else.

#49,50 and 51

Hey,today on the way to school my girl spotted the first robin!The spring is coming anyway!!!!

At first we were excited to hear the honks of the Canada geese.Then we started to wonder who was going to see the first robin this year when she suddenly started screaming for joy."I can see one,I can see one!"

Yes,the birds are coming back.This is a good sign.

And here you can see my next three pieces.I posted #50 on top because it is my favourite.My daughter at the age of two and the snowman.The other two are doodles done at work during my break.

#47 and 48

Flowers on my mind.

#45 and 46

#42,43 and 44

Happy month of March to everybody.It is a warm and sunny day out there.It looks like spring is coming anyway.I am going on with my challenge and doing pretty good.I have a bunch of new sketches to photograph and post.

#39,40 and 41

The ball point sketches were done at work during my morning break.From life.

Some pictures from last fall

It is snowing again but I am dreaming about warm sunshiny day,gardens full of flowers,birds songs and children's laughter in the air.

#36,37 and 38

#36 is a study of leaves on watercolor paper straight with the brush.#37 is a sketch with an ink pen and watercolors in my sketchbook .And 38 is a watercolor straight with the brush in my sketchbook/the one that does not tolerate watercolors very much/.

Belated Valentine talk

My daughter made that awesome collage on the paper bag for her Valentines at school.It is so cool.She really rocks.I hope you had a wonderful Valentine.

#33,34 and 35

All three of them were completed at work during my morning break,instead of reading the morning paper.I used ball point pen,pencil or ink pen.Twitched them at home here and there, adding a watercolor wash for example.

#30,31 and 32

#30 was completed with watercolor crayons.I used a local newspaper as a reference for it.#31 was completed with ink and watercolors ,the reference was from an old foreign newspaper.#32 was inspired by magazine J-14 again,ink and watercolors.
So,with these three sketches I finished the ones for the month of January and started February.I am proud of myself for not giving up in the first month.I've read somewhere that people give up on their New Years resolutions by the end of January.

#28 and 29

A couple of ballerinas inspired by a local newspaper.Watercolor and pencil.

#26 and 27

For these two sketches I used some of my personal photos for a reference.I saw those two girls at the parade last summer.I used colored pencils and watercolors.Did you notice that the paper I drew the ballerina girl on has wrinkled?Yes,this is paper for sketching and does not tolerate even a slight watercolor wash.Too bad because I like this sketch a lot.Well,you learn every day.
I am kind of late with the posting but I am doing pretty good with keeping up with the challenge.I am getting much better at building a habit to sketch every day.

#24 and 25

Two-face-snowmen

It is such a beautiful and cold winter day today.The sun broke through the clouds finally.Everything looks so bright and festive bathing in the warm shine of the sun.
Oh,I am so sorry I forgot my camera at home this morning when I took my girl to school.
I did not know I was missing the sun light so much.
Well,maybe a little bit later I will be able to take some pictures but now I am going to post a couple old pictures.I think it was on Christmas day.My daughter and I made a snowman with two faces.One facing the street and the other one
saying hi to the pedestrians.