As I was assembling these colors, they reminded me of deep glacial waters.

I enjoyed working on a different media… I thought I had made decisions on details of my work, but as I am creating these I realize I have to think through this material more and then proceed. Still hoping to have 50 flags… But know that may be a challenge, more then I originally thought.

Week two and three consisted of pen doodles, charcoal birch trees, and another graphite silhouette drawing but this time with the silhouette of the upper peninsula! An aluminum can and spray paint sculpture, and the start to the wire sculpture. The finished version of week ones watercolor and a new pen, colored pencil, and watercolor tree. And some photography as well.

More play!! Have so many ideas filling my head, each ones brings links to another idea

I’ve decided to continue with sketching/painting the neo-tropical wood warblers for this 100-Day Project series. By staying with the warbler form, I’ve noticed improvements in both the sketch and the watercolor. I’m using my own photographs and Jim Flynn’s from Chris G. Earley’s , WARBLERS OF CANADA. I also consult Field Guides, such as SIBLEY and old Brooks and Fuertes illustrations. Creating a life-like pose has been a challenge. I’ve been sketching/painting to music, which I cannot do when I write. The first sketch of Blackburnian Warblers was to Zoe Keating (cellist) INTO THE TREES. This second work of male and female Bay-breasted Warblers was done to Nadia Sirota’s (violist), BAROQUE. The repetitious pen/ink detail required for the work is well suited to the sounds created by these artists (No lyrics).

Well– fits and starts or ebb and flows– this is was what came out of that experience.

I was curious about using some embossing and etching dies I had. The first nine dies are meant for metal. I liked the embossing but not the etching dies. I ran them through a Cuttlebug machine (meant to be used for embossing paper for greeting cards) and they worked. I didn’t want to run the plastic dies that are meant for the Cuttlebug through my rolling mill – thought they might smush. So on day 20 I tried a plastic die, with metal, in the Cuttlebug and it worked without smushing it, which means I can use it over and over!

My world of the Mystery of the Missing Socks is growing with many characters. Soon I will begin grouping them and building conversation poems between them. This is the princess. There is now a royal family: the king, the queen, the prince and the princess.

This card illustration came together in a single sitting. I’m really excited that this design work for the evolution and systems game Evolve! is giving me a chance to draw new animals. The red-billed oxpecker is a showy African native that moves with the migrating herds of ungulates. It lives off the parasites and insects associated with large grazers such as zebra and wildebeest.

I am trying to mix it up- c;lose-up details and views that give more information