Sktchy #33

“No Groundhogs?” That’s right woodchuck chuckers, it’s Groundhog Day….again? I looked for groundhogs to sketch on Sktchy and couldn’t find any so this young lady had to do. She doesn’t understand all the hoopla about Groundhog day since the Groundhogs are pulled out too early in the day before there is enough light to actually see a shadow. And besides, even dogs know that there are six more weeks of winter no matter what a Groundhog might predict. Although, watching “Groundhog Day” is one of the benefits of the festivities.

“No Groundhogs?” Can be purchased for $15.

It is an Artist Trading Card, 2.5 x 3.5. 

A bunch of sketches!

Wow, you guys are really in for a treat tonight….I finally finished the sketchbook!  Here are the last two sketches….

You’re going to need to scroll all the way down for Sktchy # 32….


Tonight was sketch night.  We have been doing our Sketch Nights at the Library for the winter….tonight we sketched shoes and I showed everyone another way to do the shoes a la Danny Gregory….


And finally, here is this evenings Sktchy…

   This sort of just happened….I loosely scribbled this sketch in my morning pages…. I scanned it in and reduced it to 3.5 x 2.5 so I could fit it on an artist trading card.  I smooshed cray pas on the back of the photocopy and then transferred it to the trading card……The final result is on the bottom of the page.



Today’s Sktchy #31

Today is the last day of January.  One month down, 11 to go.  I haven’t decided how I want to proceed with February.  I have been jotting down different ideas for changing things up for February so I don’t get stale…Do I do Artist Trading Cards? (ATCs) Do I start off the month with something related to Valentine’s Day?  Hmmm….

“Austheia” Only two more Sktchy drawings to go to finish this sketchbook!  I am debating on finishing off the book tonight so I can start something new for February. Stay tuned.

Art Before Breakfast using breakfast food

I am taking Carla Sonheim’s 365 Days class and our assignment today was to create art from a non art supply.  

We bought that high protein/fiber pancake mix (Kodiak) from Costco, so we decided to have pancakes this morning for breakfast.  John sometimes works from home so while he was on a conference call, I made these pancakes.

I wanted to use the pancake mix to

 create something….my first attempt fell apart when I flipped it…..(so I ate it.)


Then I thought, let me do a solid heart


Then I decided to spell out the word “love.”



I forgot to take a photo of the V in the pan.



And some leftover batter !


To spell out:


And then I added some strawberries 


My husband loved it!

Today’s Sktchy # 26 and some Starbucks sketches

I had to sketch this little cutie pie. 


I started to sketch this guy….

Then two women pulled up the chairs right in front of my subject above, so I sketched them. Turns out they were conversing about how the one woman broke up with her boyfriend.  Just looking at this sketch, I can remember the whole conversation….the boyfriend sounded like a cad.  She could do better.