Hope springs eternal. Even though we're looking at a train wreck happening at 12:01 on January 20th, my hope is that the little message these kids are sporting will somehow come to pass. Lik...
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My "Red Scott Tartan" watercolor from a few years ago. No new Christmas art this year, sorry. This is a heavier post than I usually do, but I need to vent, so here goes. The Holidays...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/12/this-holiday-season-oy.html
My homage to Fall. Someone on FB suggested I call this one "Squans". (Get it? squash + swans) I love that! This was drawn with Prismacolor pencils on Bristol vellum. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/10/fall-gourd.html
Fall just arrived, so of course that means I'm in panic mode about Christmas. ! I finally managed to get the first set of gift tags into the Drawings of Knitting etsy shop , which are all pret...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/09/knitting-gift-tags.html
I just finished this one. An American Colonial family is gathered together to listen to the Father read a letter from a loved one far away. Its all done with Prismacolor colored pencils, one...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/09/colonial-family.html
This month's SCBWI Draw This! prompt was ROYAL. I've never participated in this before, not sure why. They usually send out the new prompt on the first of the month, but this month it didn't...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/08/scbwi-draw-this-royal.html
I used three black Polychromo pencils on this one. Almost - two are total stubs, and one has a little life left in it, barely. This was a lot of fun to do! Its all colored pencil - no digital...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/08/wrapping-presents.html
Tom and Catrina are the Purrs for Peace Party candidates. They believe every kitty should have a warm place to sleep, nice treats, and that catnip should be legal. They're getting my vote, fo...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/08/purrs-for-peace-party-candidates.html
I've been busy making a lot of drawings of knitting lately, for various projects. People are commissioning me to do custom coloring pages to promote their knitting sites and projects, which ha...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/07/more-drawings-of-knitting.html
Here it is all finished. If you saw the last post where I was still in the drawing stage, you'll remember I had him with a pitchfork, flinging pancakes off the roof. Yeah - this is way bette...
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I decided I need a nursery rhyme for my portfolio. So I found a sort of obscure one - King Boggen. "Little King Boggen he built a fine hall. Pie-crust and pastry-crust, that was the wall;...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-king-and-coloring-book-works-in.html
Back to doing what I do best - cats in costumes, with colored pencils. Carl is a hipster student in graduate school. He's pursuing a Master's Degree in Medieval Studies, while working as ...
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I'm into fried potatoes all of a sudden for some reason. (I mean to draw. I've always liked them to eat.) Here are some potato wedges from KFC ~ And here are some curly fries from ...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/02/wedges-and-fries.html
I finally finished this gal. She was going to be my Christmas card last year, but I started her too late, then had some 'real work' deadlines and had to put her aside. She is a Russian ...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2016/02/baboushka-kitty.html
Happy New Year to you! I hope yours is starting off nicely. Mine started off with a bang! a few days in. One evening I had just turned off the computer (early) and was minding my own busine...
Christmas is upon us! I wanted to do a little update before I check out for a bit. We've had some nice rain, which is so badly needed here, but last week one storm was accompanied by some sup...
Hello! Its been waaaaay too long, gosh. Time flies when you're slaving away on something, doesn't it? I've been working on something I'm pretty excited about. I finally finished, and here ...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2015/11/drawings-of-knitting-coloring-book.html
OK, so its finally Fall. Yay! And it actually rained today. Double Yay!!! I've been super busy working on this secret project that I'm tired of keeping a secret but have to for a little...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2015/09/fall-and-stuff.html
I'm so excited that my Fried Egg on Sourdough Toast drawing has been selected to be in the Strokes of Genius 8: Exploring Textures book ! You can see the list of all the winners to be incl...
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Cookies are fun to draw! Especially if they're good ones, because you get to eat them afterwards. These were all kind of experiments, or 'practice' drawings. This first one is a 'stamped...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2015/08/more-cookie-drawings.html
"BLT" 15" x 15" Prismacolor colored pencils on Stonehenge paper BLT stands for Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato. I honestly don't know if that's just an American, or English-speaking thi...
How time flies. I thought I'd be back here sooner, but I think there's some sort of time warp thing that happens when its really hot. Like, everything slows down and days go by and you don't even...
"Happy" comes in many flavors. There is the "reading a letter and seeing photos of loved ones" happy. I'm doing a major edit on this illustration (which I showed you in the last post). I...
On the board ~ I love mice. This is how I think of them. So its really hard when my cats catch them and bring them in the house. I rescued one from under the lingerie chest the other day,...
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-mouse-cats-and-sushi.html
I'm playing catch-up with my arCATecture kitty drawings. Still trying to finish up the first UP & DOWNSTAIRS TABBIES series, which I had meant to be done with over a month ago. Oh well. Real lif...
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