Scarves

I went through a knitting frenzy yesterday, fueled by a 7 hour wait to see a family doctor who dismissised my worries as some kind of hysteria. I will not go into details about my thoughte in regards to the medical system. I just wonder for what am I paying 40% of my salary in taxes. I see a doctor once a year and I cannot get a decent service. So, to calm down I knitted:

Yeterday's news

I signed up for a subscription to The Gazette. I will confess that the main reason I did it is because they offered a gift card for gas. I will eventually cancel the subscription. The quality isn't there anymore. Better read La Presse or Globe and Mail. To put the newspaper to some use, I started drawing from it.

 Top left - two shelves in my book case. Bottom left - a skateboarder. It turns out the cycling path in Montreal are victims of their own success - accidents waiting to happen. There are bikers doing speed training, skooters, roller-bladers, walkers, runners, kids, dogs...
Top right - I tried to draw three of the twelve crumbling bridges in Montreal. I am sure there are more that that, the list did not even include the behemot - Champlain Bridge.

Plant

I picked up some leaves and a strange looking fruit during a run in the park. The plant could be a cousin of the oak tree.

Live like an explorer

I decided to take Danny's advice and start drawing my shoes, as well and few things I bought from Costco. On the right page, I glued a piece of pattern paper with some doodles on it, then I gessoed it. I was planning to draw a self portrait with brush and ink. Instead, I drew a kefir container.

Little Miss Sunshine

I am almost done with the collage class over at Julie's. This time, I started with this:

and it became this:

 

I always have paper, fabric or board handy to wipe off excess paint and gazes. It makes for cool backgrounds or paper to be used in other projects. As I was putting away the board I used to wipe left over glazes, I had another "vision". Here is the result - a totem pole.

The cut out words at the top right read "optical illusion".

Abstract circles and lines

Windows ...

Another collage from my class - the colors are much better in reality but I cannot get the picture right ... and no time to go to the print shop...sigh...

Cafe au lait and feuilles mortes

Mighty I  felt after drawing my breakfast and I drew the cafe au lait and croissant too. Then I drew some dried hybiscus leaves - with both hands and then with a marker. I think I will stray a bit from drawing directly in pen. I can't draw using a continous line, my drawings are a succession of tiny lines. Everything gets too messy...but I promise I won't erase ...too much!

Oatmeal etc

Taking matters seriously, I decided to draw my feet (huh ...of course they don't look like that really). I managed to draw my breakfast - a bowl with oatmeal, apple and cinamon. This let me tell  you was a serious achievement - I am hungry and sleepy and moody in the morning before I have my coffee. 

Lucidity

I am reading Creative license again, trying to pick up the slack with more or less success. But as some say, one should focus on what one did, not on what one did not. So I am focusing on what I did. I started by drawing two cookies - the last mohicans that succumbed shortly after the drawing was finished. Then I sketched my hand while jotting down bits of overheard conversations.

Seascape

I don't know how people manage to find time to make art, take pictures, photoshop them, post them, write posts a mile long, raise kids, do the chores, go to work...huh?!

I finished a collage over at Julie's. It was a love-hate process. The base collage layer and first layer of painting went on smoothly, but then I could not find a suited focal point, stuff I wanted to use did not fit and so on. In the end, I settled on a marine theme with seashells, bubbles and golden shiva oil pastels.
It all started like this:

and become this: