Stripey String

It has been a couple of weeks since I participated in the Diva Challenge. It was a dry spell, in more than just my art. Things were pretty much in slow motion in every aspect of my life. And that's okay. I still took out my sketchbook and pens every day and scribbled, practiced lines and circles, did some shading, practiced new patterns (Zenith is REALLY fun) even did some of the challenges without submitting them  because I didn't feel like fiddling around with my blog.

But one morning I woke up with this curly thing in my mind, and once I was up I grabbed my big sketchbook and began drawing what I saw. I drew many of them...lots and lots of curly things. When I was done, most of the page was full, but the lower right section was open...and so I finished it, with a face:

 

Dreaming

 She turned out sorta neat, didn't she? Someone in repose, sitting in stillness. Maybe her mind is full of amazing things and that shows in her hair! ha!












This sort of broke down the artist's block I was going thru. It gave me inspiration to do it again.

Gazing at the sky

I really like the string of onomato beads, and she has flowers in her hair! the Mi2 in the lower right was odd, but it was the first time I put that tangle in a random shape and it's okay.

Not sure about the roller coaster looking huggins there on the right side of her face. But it's still okay. Again, I wonder how amazing must her thoughts be as she gazes upward.

Little Guy

 While I was working on the long haired woman, I thought of this one: short curly hair on a child. The main pattern here is a bran-new one on Tanglepatterns.com: Pixioze. In fact, I filled a page in my big sketchbook with Pixioze during my dry spell. There's other patterns scattered around in there.

That's so Louis XIV

Looking online, I saw several faces with their hair piled up, and gave that a try. Doesn't Undling (across her hairline in front) look JUST LIKE hair? I also love the paisley and of course Tropicana like a crown is yummy! She also has flowers in her hair.
And notice the horizon of Zenith running behind her.


These were so much fun to do, and I plan on making many more, not just faces, but anything that has layers or piles (e.g., I saw a tangles soft serve ice cream cone)





Thank you for going along on my little tour.

Now for the Diva Challenge   This week we are to make a string that is Stripey, so I did. I used a micron burgundy pen in 05 and just created a simple horizontal stripe, with a curve in it.

The Land of Counterpane

Keeko, Striping, A-torm, Maizey, MacDee, and fringe. Looks sorta blankety, doesn't it?

It's also been a more active week. I went hiking twice (got pictures of only one hike)

Lake Mary and me!

On the way to Mary

and took my little cat Becky out for a walk:

Wait...woah! this isn't the apartment!

Walking the cat

 There's a courtyard in the apartment building where I live, and I took her out there. She did want to stay under the shrub, but wasn't resistant when I scooped her up and put her out in the open.

Hi BeckyAnne!

I am going to take her out every day in good weather. She'll love it and I bet as she gets used to it, we'll go exploring quite a bit.