Ho Ho Ho

I am slowly but surely getting some Christmas cards together and posting them out later this week, its been a lot of fun making wee watercolours for each card. So I hope the people who get them will like them! These are a few different ones I have done so far and a few cards ready to send out, so a few people can expect some soon.

Hopefully I will get a few more done this week so I can get the rest of the cards I want to send out in time for everyone before Christmas.

 

 

K and L

A few more sneak peaks at the new painting for A is For, can you guess what they are?

 

 

Perhaps I will get some more done before the day is over!

Lea Pearl Smith

 

My sister and her husband had their baby the other day, a beautiful baby girl, they called Lea Pearl Smith after both of their Grandmas. She was in fact born on the same day as Tyler's Grandma, Pearl, and Pearl would have been 100 years old that day!

So a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Camille and Tyler!

So it is very exciting to be an Aunty and that is what the Secret Paintings have all been about!

I didn't take the best photos of the paintings but perhaps I will get better ones another day, but they are now with Camille and Tyler!!

 

 

 

 

Dr. Sketchy's

On the weekend I went to a live drawing session which some people probably have heard of called Dr. Sketchy Anti Art class. I have been wanting to go again for ages, I went to my first one about two years ago and haven't been back since, mostly cause I was too nervous to draw in public. I personally love drinking and drawing at home, its a brilliant way to spend hours and suddenly look up at the clock and realise you have been drawing/painting/getting pissed for 6 hours. But in public that is another thing  entirely! So I worked up the courage to ask my sister and my husband if I should go! Becuase if I told them I was thinking of going I would have much more of a push to go than if I just thought of going! And lo and behold they thought it was a good idea, so I tricked myself into making the plans to go.

Now I would be more than a little bit of a liar if I didn't say that I was thinking of just hanging out in town instead of heading to the Jazz Bar while I was sitting on the bus into town. In the end I made it there and was still particularily awkward for the first hour or so, some of the people who were there were so awesome, and there I was sitting with a wee cup of tea, scibbling out a mess of people.

Not that anyone was making me feel uncomfortable, just my awkward wee self, I decided a wee Crabbies Ginger beer would be nice and to just doodle something for a bit and out popped the pirate head you see below. I found my groove!

Now I definitely want to go back and do some more drawing so hopefully I make it to the next one in December and then the next in February! It was a really really fun way for me to learn to draw differently and more quickly because you really need to get the people down on the paper before the five minutes is up!

 

 

 So its a good thing I have Caryn and Dixon to tell me to do things because without them I wouldn't have had such a wonderful time!

All Hallow's Read

I was thinking the other day that I really really should have done a post about this about two weeks back cause it would make a lot more sense, but because it is something I think is pretty cool I am going to anyway.

A wee while back I was snooping around Neil Gaiman's blog and found out about a new tradition he wants to start around Halloween. A slight groan could be heard from Britain, they don't really do Halloween enthusiastically as it is, let alone another tradition. I have seen more people dressed up in real costumes for a Bachelor party let alone Halloween, which is mostly dress in your pants night. But this tradition is a a little bit different. I'm not the most articulate so this video illustrates much better than I could ever tell you.

 

 

So you give a scary book this Halloween! Well I suppose I am a little late on spreading the word, but I am excited because my book I have sent hasn't arrived yet! So I am still quietly celebrating All Hallow's Read, while waiting for Marsha to get her book, so that next year hopefully I can do this again, on time. If I am lucky!

So for more information and book recommendations they have a website!

All Hallow's Read

Busy Busy

So I had another productive Saturday off I managed to put down the videogame I couldn't put down on wednesday and actually paint! Something about when Dixon is away to go skating, I can really be productive. So here are some wee previews.

 

These paintings are turning out to be a lot of fun! I am really enjoying thinking them up and putting them out there. I do need to get onto the next few soon, because I think I have a lot of painting to do in my future! But so far it has been fun. Its made me draw and paint things I normally wouldn't think to paint.

 

The newspaper was giving away free lego all this week and because the shop that you had to collect it from is not close to my route to work or home from I haven't got any of it! Buuut Dixon got a lift to the shopping centre and picked it up for me even though he isn't the biggest lego fan let alone Lord of the Rings fan. My own little orc!

 

And finally last but not least it was my awesome brothers birthday and through the magic of technology I was able to send him a birthday present on time and everything! Though not a card, thats still coming!! Sorry!!

I did get him one of the best movies of our childhood!