coop update

We built the 4 walls yesterday and hope to have a roof by the end of today...DH is out there cutting 2x4's as I update this...I better get out there and help.

One of our little helpers!

happy halloween

I was outside around 7:30 this morning with the dogs and saw the beautiful puffy clouds, so I ran back inside and grabbed my camera...this picture doesn't do the sky justice...I loved the way the clouds were an alizarin crimson on the bottom and purple/gray on top.

lunch sketches

I'm trying to get myself back in the habit of sketching while I eat lunch...DH will be happy to know that I am sitting at the table and not stand at the island gobbling down my food. This little boy was sitting on a pumpkin, holding a big zucchini squash...I didn't get time to sketch the pumpkins in...I'm trying to get the sketch on paper in the amount of time it takes me to eat my lunch...the angle of his head was giving me trouble. sketched this yesterday from a farm blog.

I hate the pen I used for this sketch...I won't be picking that pen again...I sketched this picture from a chicken magazine I bought Saturday at the feed store in Arcola...we went there to look around during their trade days. I was so annoyed with this pen, I sat there sketching even after I finished my lunch...sketched this Tuesday.

I sketched this today from the newspaper...she was sitting on a purple couch and I'm not sure what that dress/shirt is she is wearing. I don't have a lot of time right now to paint, so you will probably see a lot of my lunch time sketches. I'm trying to read as much as I can about raising chickens and keeping up with my domestic chores.

feeling like crap...

Yesterday morning, I woke up with a sore throat...grrrr! For lunch I zapped chicken and rice soup. After reading about the salmonila in the chicken pot pies last week, I thought I should make sure the chicken in this soup was hot enough, so while I let it cool off, I sketched this page using red-black ink that isn't waterproof and then added a little water with my water brush.

random monday

Not only are we planting a garden...we have decided to raise chickens for meat and eggs. DH working on the chicken coop...we have ordered 50 day old chicks...they will be here around the 19th of November.

B was home this weekend...she helped with the coop.

Abby

I finished this pair of seaweed socks.

home grown

Almost ready to be picked...

Picked this trio this morning.

study...the path

7x5 acrylic study...this is the first time I have tried to paint a nocturnal scene. I used a photo as reference that DH took in Aspen, Colorado.

This morning I decided to slap some red and yellow acrylic paint on this panel...if the painting turns out the way I want it too, it will be very bright.