I may have a blog or two with the same title. I went out with the Urban Sketchers a couple of weeks ago to the Port Moody Museum and have been meaning to post the resulting little drawings, two quick sketches (the piano and the CP Rail car) and a more detailed drawing of an old coal stove called the “Good Cheer” – so cute!
It’s been a busy fall – that’s my excuse for not posting any art recently except for my 2025 Christmas card. This year the holiday season crept up very quickly and when the inspiring ideas failed to appear, I defaulted to Santa and Elves.
Wishing you the Best of the Season and a Happy, Creative and Peaceful 2026.
I always (or almost always) make cards for various occasions and this August I had lots of opportunities. I had looked at a few commercial 3D and Pop-up cards in stores and thought I’d like to try some of the techniques.
Here’s a Birthday card with three layers, the bees on the top:
I had a couple of weddings to attend in August – such fun! Here’s one of the cards (forgive the fingers but I wanted to show the little “pocket” inside).
And here’s the other – a three layer card with an image based on a great photo by the bride (who is a terrific photographer). The canoe to me represented their “journey” together. 
Summer is over already and I’ve been very lazy – no paintings yet. Just a holiday drawing or two and more dog studies.
I rediscovered my fountain pens this summer and used them to draw Angus again.
And now to my Nemesis, pastel. I keep trying to master pastels but I have a ways to go. I wasn’t going to post my latest effort because my technique still leaves much to be desired. Admittedly I’m using some old pastels that aren’t the greatest quality but that’s a bit of a lame excuse. I think though, I managed to get this little dog’s personality. I think.
Around this time of year, I usually think up a little drawing for a few holiday cards. I couldn’t think of anything in particular for 2023 so I started playing around with bits of coloured paper. Four ideas emerged:
One of my sisters liked the “warm woolen mittens” design the best so I made a bunch of those. (I’m pretty sure the idea came from the last K1 art lesson where we drew mittens together.) The first thing I did was paint random red/green watercolour strokes on a piece of watercolour paper and when it was dry, cut it up into squares. Then I drew little mittens on each square (each card is “bespoke” haha), pasted them on coloured card stock and added a piece of wool (ok, acrylic yarn). Here’s one of the finished cards:
Happy Holidays everyone!