Dragonfly

Quick sketch done from photo, not art but not too bad.

Blankets

I made these back in February as a gift (gave the gift, but just found the pics :-p). They are Microsoft clip art pics that I hand stitched onto the blankets. The only machine part is the scallop edge on the boat blanket, in hindsight I regret doing that. The boat was done first and basically in an afternoon. The frog took what felt like a million years of evolution, his feet were by far the hardest part. I wish I had done the boat as appliqué, maybe next time.

Puppy

Another NOT knock off! All in pencil, and all with HB and 2H. This is really ticking me off, all of my other pencils have disappeared. If they don't show up by tomorrow I will be forced to make an art store run.

Attack Squirrel

A quick ink by decree of the son...original request was to make him a ninja, but we compromised at a battle ax.

Squirrel

A little crooked but.........not a knock off! From a photo of the great common eastern gray squirrel, aka day rat. We decided that his eyes are really saying, "I should have used Preparation H."

Monkeys

These are the first 2 monkeys in Justin Gerard's “Monkey’s ate my desktop" (http://www.justingerard.com/blog/?p=40).
I just got the new pens and monkeys are good to play with. :)

First Post!

I'm going to use this blog to try to keep track of the efforts/results and hopefully progress of my creative attempts. Right now I'm doing a lot of copying, it is easier to practice that way. The charcoal drawing of the woman and the ink of the bear are both mine, but the original sources are from Matt Phelan (he has a great blog btw). My projects are hanging around drawing and needlepoint right now, but I've seen some beautiful painted quilts (especially by Judy Coates Perez) that are making me dream about combining the two.