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digital sketching

I have been experimenting with different sketching apps on my Ipad and found one I really like using. It’s called Paper by FiftyThree. Here’s a couple of recent ones I’ve done and that I’m pretty sure are going to end up being turned into quilts:

 

You can see some of the fruits [...]

Fruits&Veggies

Leslie picked the theme for May over at the sketchbook challenge…

The theme for May is:Fruits &Veggies

Pop over to the Sketchbook Challenge for all the details!

Time for a new theme

A new sketchbook challenge theme that is! Jane LaFazio is the theme chooser for March 2012 on the sketchbook challenge blog and she chose:

Flowers!

Get all the details about this months theme and the great prizes up for grabs on the Sketchbook Challenge Blog here.

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The sketchbook challenge turns 1…

It’s hard to believe that the Sketchbook Challenge is a year old already! Diana Trout is kicking off our second year with a really fun theme for January:

*Doodling* “Non Threatening Drawing for Anyone At All”Get all the details and some tips on getting started on the Sketchbook Challenge here. [...]

if it’s October

then it’s time to start thinking about and getting ready for my trip to Houston for the Quilt Festival. I will be spending some time in the Mistyfuse booth doing some demo’s and talking about how I use Mistyfuse and I hope if you’re going to be there you’ll come by and say hello. While [...]

Stop the presses!

The first Sketchbook Challenge E-zine is now available for purchase!

Available for download right now for only $9.99!

The Sketchbook Challenge E-zine is 83 full color pages of creativity,inspiration and projects! Click here to peek inside!

What you’ll find inside…Learn how to draw a pinecone with Jane LaFazio [...]

what a manuscript looks like…

before it gets turned into a book:

This is the finished manuscript for my book – all 29,000 words of it printed on 148 pages. I’d like to tell you what it’s all about but unfortunately I can’t. I can tell you that thanks to

Carol Sloan,Jane Davies,Leslie Tucker Jenison,Lynn Krawczyk,[...]

new month,new theme

Jamie picked the theme for March on the Sketchbook Challenge blog:

Spilling Over by Jamie Fingall is drawn with a Parker Fountain Pen and colored in with Crayola Washable Markers. Ransom lettering from magazines and newspapers spells out the words.

I am loving this theme and I can’t wait to see what everyone [...]

the sketch-inthe sketch-in!

What’s a sketch-in? It’s a event where you gather with others and work in your sketchbook to the current sketchbook challenge them! I held one last week in my studio with my friends Kathy,Kathleen,Sue P and Sue F (no website for Sue F yet –and no that’s not a typo,there’s really [...]

interviews &watercolorsinterviews &watercolors

Thought I’d share a photo of my latest watercolor sketch…

I’ve been working from some photos that I took this past fall. I am really enjoying working with watercolors and I found that working with isolated single images is easier than trying to work on scenes. As my skills improve and I get more [...]