Just returned from a trip to Chicago which included a visit to the Field Museum. I had fun sketching in the bird exhibit. This enormous beaked bird is a whalehead stork. I also sketched a palm cockatoo and kookaburra but didn't add color to them.
Another homework less for the third week of Kate's Watercolor Pencil Class. I'm feeling really behind so I think I'll be working on these excercises well past the final week. It's fun to get feedback and I'm really enjoying see all the other students art work as well.
I'm taking an online watercolor pencil class from Cathy (Kate) Johnson and having lots of fun! I'm happy with some of these results but hoping that practice will help. I am learning a lot and enjoying seeing everyones work, comments and discussion. This is the second online art class I've taken and I'm really enjoying the format. It works well for someone who has such a packed schedule.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Little
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. Shirley MacLaine
The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity. Ellen Parn
'Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.' H Jackson Brown Jnr
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."~Ray Bradbury
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. Tenneva Jordan
I don't really care if my glass is 1/2 full or 1/2 empty - I'm just happy to have a glass. Joe Farrell
I'm trying to pack as many things into my life as possible while still maintaining balance. This site chronicles some of these things and occasionally relates how the whole balance thing is working out (or not working out).