bird house

Bird apartment house. watercolor and ink.

home sweet home

My home is the home of light...

tea houses

I am trying to revive my blog by posting more often, so you can catch up with all my sketchbook fun from the summer...

teacups

more sketchbook art...

Lara's garden

My neighbor moved away, but I still get to enjoy the flowers she planted in our yard.

from my sketchbook.

Museum Book Instructions

Someone recently asked me to share instructions for making the Museum Book. Click here to download my new instruction sheet. The book has 4 "galleries", each telling part of the story. The floor of each gallery folds up. A ribbon-tie can be added under each cover so the book can be tied closed, or open. I also added pop-up figures on the sides.

You can also see a photo of me learning how to use a Guatemalan back strap loom, like the one in my book.

Spring

repeat patterns

Playing with repeat patterns from my watercolor flower drawings. The spacing in the blue pattern is more balanced because the original drawing was more square-shaped. The original pink design was more rectangular-shaped. It took forever, but I learned a lot.

another birdie

dancing among the flowers...

birdie love

Happy Val.

more sketchbook

another sketchbook page...

sketchbook

more flowers in my sketchbook.