Stationary for my mom

 

So many things to make these days that there is little time left for writing about it all. Tonight I finished making some stationary for my mom. It's her birthday this weekend. I carved a linoleum block with a simple, happy, circle design. It took forever to carve because I had to be really careful with all the curves. It really came out well and I think she will like it. I was going to do a two color print, but I liked it with the single color and left it like that. It's a turquoise ink on a periwinkle paper (I wish I had more opportunity to use the word periwinkle!). I tied up six cards and six off white envelopes and will send it off to mom tomorrow.

By the way, carving lino blocks makes me think of the dentist scraping my teeth, and I can see why they never seem to be in a hurry to finish...it's kind of fun.

Illustration Friday-Your Paradise

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Your Paradise

Ink on some crappy paper

Here is my latest entry for IF. I started drawing this one tonight on some paper I hadn't used before and realized when I went to ink it all in the ink was going to bleed. nice. I also wanted to paint it with water colors but ran out of time. Maybe I'll do it this weekend. Anyway, that's me and my sweet boy and husband. We're taking the kid-o to see the shuttle launch tomorrow. He loves rockets and the shuttle...you can guess where I started on the drawing. Oh, sorry for the bad lighting on the picture...it's late.

I'm the Featured Art!

 

Hey check me out! I'm the featured art on The Mile Project today! Excellent. If you haven't clicked on my link to Joe's site do it now and go draw him a picture while you're at it! I drew him my self portrait that I use on the cover of my zine Temporal Millionaire. Hopefully it will end up on the mile of drawings one day.  Take care everyone...happy drawing to you!