More Beads! You know you're excited about those

I long for the days when I can make dolls again.

The necklace is one I made for work. I'm wearing it on my other blog, A Day in the Life of She Who Is...

Just Another Day of Pen and Ink

Took three days, actually, to finish this piece. This one is meant more to showcase my patterns so that when I'm making a design and I feel stumped, I can reference this. I notice I'm less geometric in my designing.

Mostly exhausted the last few days. All set to go back to work on that evil day, Monday. I know I'll go through spells like this, so fingers crossed that this is the last before January. :-)

I love this article

Doodles and Zentangles - About.com

She says exactly what I feel. I resent someone coming along and copyrighting/trademarking the very idea of the same type of thing I've done since I was 15, then saying that theirs is better because they make it meditative. Art is very much a method of connecting to the paper and pen. It's a form of mindfulness. I now mentally fume when working on my art because just getting my pens I really didn't want people to think I was tangling when I'm creating my art/doodles.

Brain Yoga Doodles! Just kidding :) Just Happy Doodles

My art is not a zen anything, but it is yoga for the soul.  I liked making these much like in school. The main difference now from twenty years ago was that I included more dragon scales and wings in my doodles then and now I have more swirls. I use most of the same patterns. I really have been missing this. I started to do it a little bit on my not yet finished owl drawing (that is further in this blog.) 

 These babies need a name! My daughter thinks I could or should sell them. 

It's a two piece set. 

Two Bracelets and a Dragon

Working on some gifts and I'm really not sure what I think of these. Thoughts? Paper beads as the central focus. 

This one is a dragon I'm working on. It's slow. I can't do this too much right now. It's acrylic too, which I've not really used since school. (Jr. High) 

To Mend a Broken Heart

I'm surprised I left this one unfinished for so long. She was started in plenty of time to have ready for Valentine's Day 2013. She was made for that holiday, and yet, I finished her this evening.  The challenge was that after so long of not touching her, I could barely see my sketch lines and it was fun trying to remember what my original plans were for her. 

Finished piece. Difficult to scan, I noticed. 

The first pic is where I began tonight, then I added more details. 

The finished here shows the colors far better than the scan does.

 The gold is metallic watercolor. 

Here are some of her details. I do like her. She's vibrant and not 

quite like most of my past art pieces. 

Later I'll put her on DeviantArt and on Etsy. I have to decide what she'll cost. She is 9x12 on Arches cold pressed watercolor paper. I use mostly Grumbacher watercolor paints, with a few others. 

Tiiiiired. Last update for today. Done for now

Two more bracelets

Paper beads and glass on cotton thread

She really likes these! She approves.