Watercolor moods...

Bluebird on a branch

3 Cherries under construction on vacation

3 Cherries - completed July 2011

I have been enjoying my watercolors again... Restful times! 

Thanks for looking! 

Doodling day off...

Why do flowers show up when I doodle on Illustrator? 

Daffodils!

I am NOT SO PATIENTLY waiting for spring.

The other day's lesson in Illustrator prompted this idea for the daffodil. Ooh, so fun and I get to have flowers in my studio! Enjoy!

Spring in my studio...

I LOVE hydrangea flowers and always wanted to paint or draw them. Here is the start of something good in that direction. <3 this illustrator fun!

Graphically Speaking... I love Illustrator!

The assignment for our midterm was to create an image using a list of skills and tools we were taught during the first five chapters. Just about every tool gave me ideas for making flowers, so the garden idea began to form the first day.

The signs were needed to use text on paths, text masks and text with stretched points. The flowers almost all used the rotate and scaling tools. The daisies implemented the pathfinder intersect tool. The larger sign utilized the divide tool, and several other tools.

This was such a fun project to develop and organize. I enjoyed seeing the other student's projects at class tonight... all of them creative and inspiring. What a great class and the instructor really enjoys seeing our "lights" come on when we "get it".

What's next? Patterns and BRUSHES... I have some experience there, but it will be fun this week!

Illustration DRAWN: Bailey featured

Yes, I love Illustrator class at college.  Can you tell? 

My granddaughter received a new hat one Wednesday night at church. She was showing off her cuteness in the hat when someone added the mustache to her look. 

I needed to draw a sketch and remembered this cute photo that looked like a cartoon!

FUN!!

a Treasure found today...

Joyce's first job: McD drive-up

I found this today while looking for a photo for a page I am scrapping. Too cute!

New photo trick!

    Look what I learned to do this week on my own... have seen it elsewhere and wondered, "how did they do that?"  

    This shows our sunny yellow home on Cabrini. I can use any word or photo to make a personal calendar page, greeting card, holiday card ... Send me your ideas! I LOVE THIS! (can you tell it takes very little to excite me? LOL)