Happy flowers

- watercolors, ink and sharpie liquid pencil in my sketchbook-

Bird painting #9

Still no clue...

Bird painting #8

This photo showed up in my email this morning. My hometown has more snow that I've ever seen, so while I'm here enjoying the daffodils in my garden, my Mom is enjoying the snow. There is so much of it that she was able to make a snowman on her windowsill. Isn't he cute? 

I played with pretend snow today and made this little guy.

I don't know why he needed such a tall hat, but he seemed to want it.

Bird painting #7

The way I am creating these bird paintings is completely free-form. I don't have a concept, color scheme, plan. Like here - I painted a bird in the middle of the page and had no idea what to do with him and couldn't just leave him standing in the middle of nothing. So I looked around my room, found a paper with printed words (that I usually cut and use one by one), added the whole thing, then some other paper and decided it was done. I stop painting when I'm happy with it.

Sometimes, days later  I decide that I actually don't like it, so I change it... paint around it or over it, until I'm happy again. It's only paint.

Wouldn't it be cool if everything in life was so simple?

Bird painting #6

Sunday journal page

Sometimes the words I choose for my journal don't reflect what happened or even what I am feeling.

 I was not standing alone today when I saw this scene and there was nothing I wanted to forget.

I love sailboats....

Have a happy week!