In Denver with Seattle Blues - roy g Biv

The color of the month for the Roy G Biv challenge is BLUE.  Knowing I would be away from home on the third Thursday, I captured mine before leaving Seattle. 

I don't know what this little ground-cover flower is but it is ubiquitous in Seattle rockeries.

Snappy blue sports car: let's go!

My friend Ruth always said 'Blue cries for Orange'.

This sky-blue ceramic planter is a real eye-catcher.

A wonderful, faded-denim blue flower pot graces a garden.

The old street names in my Ballard neighborhood can still be seen in sidewalk tiles on some blocks.

Many more blue views can be enjoyed over through links over at Jennifer's place.
I will be back here on Sunday with Kristen's 'memory' drawing challenge.

Every Day Objects - Drawing Challenge

Sitting cozy in my red chair this evening after a cold and busy day, our dining table and chairs looked pretty ordinary, and a fitting subject for this week's drawing challenge as proposed by the amazing Kristen.  

We enjoyed a really fine Thanksgiving feast right here day before yesterday.

  'Ordinary' pencil in 8x6 sketchbook

The every day objects in my home are comforting in their familiarity.  Drawing such objects is a way of seeing them more clearly.  The time spent observing and moving pencil across paper is a mediation, a wander back in time through the magic of memory.

How many meals together at this table?  

How many more?   

 

    At Kristen's Sunny Spot you can take a look at the interpretation of this theme as presented by an extra-ordinary group of artists from all over the world.  I'm headed over there now, myself.

Wishing you all a glorious Advent.

DC: Homage

The challenge was indeed a challenge this week, as time got away from me and I was down to the wire this evening, not an idea in my head for whom pay homage.  UNTIL...

My eyes wandered to this book:

Pablo Picasso was one of the earliest Gods in my Art Pantheon, right next to Michelangelo.  He may have been a womanizer and an egomaniac, but the man could really draw.

So in homage (which originally meant pledging fealty to a Lord) to the Great Man, an Art God still to me, I give you this humble tribute:

'Homage' -  graphite and prismacolor in 8x6 gamma

Thank you to the amazing Kristen for this week's drawing challenge.  I will be around to pay homage the other players tomorrow.  Hope you will do the same.

High Summer (Solstice DC)

'High Summer' pigma pen and inktense pencil in 8x6 gamma

I hope you are not all tired of looking at scenery photos here in my little back water of Blogland, but I just can't get enough of this weather.  After two years of literally NO warm sunny weather, we are blessed with reason to remember why we live here in Southeast Alaska.

On the morning bridge

calm water murmurs memories

of last June’s floods

while birdsong chorus

lightens the dawning day.

Thank you,

most High and Glorious Creator

for Solstice and

the World 

full of

Summer’s radiance and glory

this longest day.

Thanks to my Bloggish friend Kirsten for this week's Drawing Challenge theme, 'Solstice'.  Beautiful images await you at her inspiring place, A Sunny Spot. Whether it is Summer or Winter Solstice in your part of the World, I wish you a week full of magic.

Drawing Challenge: Habit

Word association: 

You say 'habit'; I say 'bad'.

'Habit' - acrylic, oil stick, graphite and paper on book page; 8"x6"

detail 01

detail 02

When a bad habit caught me in its vicious circle of hopelessness, the only way out was surrender and prayer, one day at a time.

Many more takes on this theme 

by talented artists 

can be found over at Kirsten's fascinating blog, A Sunny Spot.