30 day Sketchbook Challenge

We are half way through with the 30 day challenge! Each day we get an email with what to draw.
I missed a couple days but here is a collage of what I have finished.
It is a challenge for someone else to tell you what to draw! It definitely stretches your imagination.
There is only 2 that I haven't completed.

Western Sketches using watercolor and gouache

 For some reason is hard to keep up. I am still trying to sketch but haven't been as successful! A lot going on lately.  I am having a workshop this next week end, and have been working on getting new pieces for a show in Ft.Worth, TX.   I am just going to try to catch up. It may take two posts!
These are on toned paper using watercolor and gouache, as well as some other sketches. 

Midland TX Sketch workshop

I was invited to teach a one day Sketch class. We really needed more than one day but I think they did great and got the hang of just using 'shapes' to draw!  There were 8 very enthusiastic sketchers there!
We had a lot of fun.  The card sketch is mine.  The sketch of me working was one of the students. I love it!

 This was everybody's effort with the coffee pot and they did a great job on them. 

New Sketches

Some new sketches..just whatever I can find to draw. The old restaurant is done with ink and tombow marker.  The Cow were in Midland, TX.  I was getting new glasses and saw the cool sign ...
the barn and sign were somewhere near Fredericksburg.

Fun Sketch

This is a sketch for a friend. It is her Dad. She wanted her home, car and Dad sketched, so this is the first one. I used a tombow marker.  He definitely brought back memories for me.  I remember the Gas station attendants who came to your car, washed the windshield, checked tires, etc.  Whatever happened to those days! They always opened the hood and checked under there too! 

A new Year-2017

After sketching every day in December I sort of took a break! I have not done much since then, so here is a Panda Bear that was at the Atlanta Zoo. Such a cutie, just lying there watching people snoozing off and on.

Day 4

Day 4- Ink and watercolor in sketchbook.

Kerrville Trip Sketches

More sketches from the Kerrville/Fredericksburg trip.  I love these old houses with flags on the porch!  Of course the sign 'Texan' caught my eye!

Come Have fun filling up a Sketchbook. June 23-24th.

I needed to change the date on the Sketchbook Workshop to June 23-24th in Plains.

More sketching. Still trying for each day! The green doors were in Pennsylvania, and the pick up was somewhere near Santa Fe NM.  The bottom sketch is the little depot in Ropes, TX. It is bright yellow and with the sun hitting it, it is so cheery! These are in my little 5x5 Hand Book, Sketchbook.

New Sketches

I am behind adding my new sketches!! I am trying to sketch each day, but sometimes I just can't get to it.

Tennessee 2015

 This is day 5.  The steeples there just get lost in all the trees. and there are so many wires everywhere.  I wonder how the electric company know what's what! It doesn't matter though because the steeples sticking up out of all the trees are so pretty.  I loved seeing them, and wondered why churches are built like this.  Here is some info I found about it. Makes sense to me!

One reason: It was simply an architectural style that happens to inspire us to look heavenward.

These early church architects designed grand cathedrals and churches that had intricate, soaring steeples. The vertical lines of the steeple helped to visually enhance the lines of the church, directing the viewers' eyes vertically to the heavens. Obviously, this verticality complements part of the mission of the church, to keep us in a heavenly frame of mind, but from an architectural standpoint, this vertical lift gives the architecture a more graceful and pleasing look. The shorter the building, the more squat the appearance; the taller the building, the more graceful it becomes. The early church believed that the church could communicate the truth of the Bible in pictures and symbols to those who were illiterate, such as using the picture in the stained glass to tell stories, as well as the steeple, which helped by pointing upwards devotedly to Heaven. Therefore, the steeple has a dual role in that it helps the congregant in his or her spiritual mindset, and the steeple also helps the architect with a design feature that enhances the overall harmony of the architecture.  This is from an article, The History of Church Steeples,

 

Tennessee 2015

This is day 3 of Tennessee Sketches. I will probably have problems decided which ones to include.

The parking sign was so cute! I had to get a photo of it. The parking was horrible and very expensive.
There were steeples every where peeking above the trees and so pretty.  There definitely will be some more of these.  The signs were for sure an eye catcher too!  There will be some more signs too. Such fun to do! I love to draw these, and remember our fun time that we had!

January 1

Another year has come and gone! It is already Jan 1, 2016! Wow! It goes by way too fast.
I did a couple sketches of some of the Chrismtas gifts as well as a sketch of part of our living room with the tree up, and of course I had to do a new Years sketch as well!
SO Happy New Year!