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All the Colors of Fall

Posted in Autumn, photos on October 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »

For more autumn color – click on my Flickr badge – just over there in the right hand sidebar. Or don’t, if you don’t want to. This is a completely free-choice kind of blog.

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COLOR!

Posted in adventures, photos on October 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been on hiatus, checking out the peak of Autumn color in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We camped out for 3 nights (one of them VERY rainy) and took in the sights – saw 5 (yes, 5!) black bears – 3 adult and 2 cubs, a number of deer, chipmunks and squirrels. One [...]

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Adrian

Posted in Moleskine, pencil, portrait on October 17, 2006 | 3 Comments »

Adrian. Cool cat, honors student, current football star, upcoming basketball star. Calls my youngest “rat” and I don’t know why – but the young one LOVES it. Quickish study in pencil in large Moleskine sketchbook.

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All but one…Done!

Posted in Inktense, postcards, watercolor on October 16, 2006 | 4 Comments »

My part of the WetCanvas Postcard project is almost finished. I ran out of the postcard sized watercolor block I’ve been using, so I’ll have to go make a Jerry’s run before I can be completely done. I really like the format – 5×7 is a nice size to experiment with different things.
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YAY!

Posted in Moo on October 14, 2006 | 3 Comments »

My Moo cards have arrived – and they are way cool. They look great, they feel great…what a brilliant partnership Flickr has with them!

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EDM #63 – Draw items from a nature walk.

Posted in Autumn, EDM Challenges, Inktense, Moleskine, watercolor on October 10, 2006 | 6 Comments »

I picked these up the other day while walking, and it occurred to me that they might be amongst the items in a challenge…and I was right! So – after many moons of missing out on challenges – here’s one done…and in grid-fashion, to boot!
I also carved a new signature stamp out of speedball [...]

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Moleskine Pachyderm

Posted in Moleskine, WDE, WetCanvas, elephant, watercolor on October 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Another watercolor for the Weekend Drawing Event at WetCanvas! I’m off the hosting hook this week, but I still managed to squeeze one little painting in. This is in the large Moleskine watercolor sketchbook. Watercolors and micron pen.

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I’m Hanging Out a Shingle

Posted in Moleskine, life-coach, rants, watercolor on October 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Finally, after years and years of expensive higher education, soul-searching, wandering on and off paths, and driving otherwise sane people completely bonkers with my angst and anxiety, I HAVE FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP!
Actually, what I have discovered is that it’s something I’ve been doing for a [...]

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