charleston...

 This past weekend DH and I traveled to Charleston, South Carolina.  There are lots of churches there...

 Cobblestone streets...

 food...we were not impressed with any of the food that we ate there...this crab cake looks better than it tasted.

 This is a view from Battery Park...we walked down to the water everyday.

 The Entrance to their city market.

 We had a nice time...so much history and architecture...it's a great place to visit.

5 minute sketches...

 I've started keeping 3x5 pieces of paper by my favorite chair in the living room and on my table by my bed, so I can sketch at anytime without needing my sketchbook( I read this tip on someones blog, but can't remember who's).  Friday night DH was watching "Sons of Anarchy", so I decided to do a quick sketch of one of the actors.  Last night I asked Kris if she recognized who it was and she said Ron Perlman...I didn't even know his name at the time...I do not watch this show...the rest of my family does.

The moon has been so bright the past few days, so this morning after I took the dogs out, I took my sketchbook and watercolors outside and did a quick sketch with only a waterbrush and paints.  Not the best picture, but you get the idea.  3x5

puffin

I sketched this Puffin from a photo...I think they are such a unique bird.  I'd like to travel to Maine one summer...when they are nesting there.  The female lays only one egg...both the male and female take care of their "baby" until it is 6 weeks old.  They have such a bright and colorful beak.

Sketched in my 9x6 Venezia sketchbook.

sketchbook...

 I sketched this man while watching a british TV show on Netflix.  I used a Pentel Aquash brush pen...I like that the ink is a light black...not gray.

Playing around with gouache in my sketchbook.

just a few sketches...

 I love to watch "Ice Road Truckers" on the History channel on Sunday nights.  Quick sketch in pencil of Austin.

 I've started riding my bike around our neighborhood...now that it has cooled down a bit.  I stood at the corner of 518 and Yost and sketched Leon's Barber Shop.  Too much traffic!  I quickly sketched this with brush pen.  Leon knows everything going on in our city...even tho the population has exceeded 100,000 people.

 I'm not much of a shopper...except for art supplies.  I sat in my car after coming out of Texas Art and sketched the water tower at the mall.  I was not impressed with the Pumpkin cheese muffin from Starbucks.  I didn't get a pumpkin spice latte today...that's for Friday.  

 Sketched this after driving-thru Starbucks this morning, for my weekly Pumpkin Spice Latte...got to drink them while I can.

Jax Burgers are the best around!  DH, Kris and I ate there this past Saturday.  I struggled to sketch this man...he just wouldn't hold still and don't ask me what that is on his chin.

I've done really good this week about sketching something everyday...I'm just not going to post all of them and bore you.

this and that...

 We are suppose to get our first "cold" front Saturday night...I am so looking forward to it, so I made baked potato soup...yum!

 I'm not a beer drinker, but I saw these Lime-A-Rita's in the doorway at Kroger's and decided to give them a try...they taste pretty good.

 I haven't sketched in forever, so yesterday, I brought out one of my sketchbooks and did this sketch.

 It's Pumpkin Spice Latte time at Starbucks.  I had my sketchbook with me this morning, so I decided to sketch while I was in the line at the drive-thru.  I was so busy trying to get something down on paper, I passed the "order box" and had to back-up...luckily, the lady behind me wasn't paying attention.

 I've been working on this painting this week...I am only using two complimentary colors...blues and oranges.  24x30

I thought I would end this post with one of our babies...that Cooper is such a sweetie!

Have a great weekend!

under the ice

We like to watch a TV show called Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice...that is what inspired this painting.  24x30