a few last sketches from May

Leeann reading on the porch

well i started these in may for the everyday in may challenge......just the sketch part...but did the watercolor last nite ...

These are done in my moleskine with watercolor pencil...to keep the trees sort of loose(LOOSE for ME:>) i just touched the pencil with a wet brush and let it do what it wanted...did a similar thing on the leaves of the plants....I posted both because i think its interesting how different they are in color intensity although i colored both of them within minutes of each other...i think it must have to do with the ink in the second one...used brighter colors on that one.

I did this one twice because i did not like the way the ink sketch turned out...i like it much better now that it is colored....Leeanne, my son Drew's girlfriend, is a big reader...they both are.....I think they are catching up on all the reading they missed when they were in law school...so they both make great subjects for sketches when they are here...

everydayin may

surely has turned into a FEW days at the end of may....have stuff done...just no time to post or to scan....usually i plan ahead a little but NO not this time....maybe now i can?!!!

The kids and i were drawing the last day of school waiting for class to start....this little girl gave me the prettiest Gerberia...she drew it while i drew her! Shes the most beautiful little girl inside and out...and has such a great head of hair with lots of braids...she was telling me all about her ballet recital the night before as we drew....we are going to miss this class...a BUNCH of sweeties!!

I think its odd that the white copy paper is GREY...its all wrinkley and tatty because one of the kids kept grabbing my drawings and getting them very wrinkley....

I am so far behind posting

i am beginning to doubt that i will catch up....the last week of school is GRINDING us all down to the nub of our strength...someone at the BOE decided that we should have not one but TWO meetings lasting till six the last week of school....all i can say is WHYYYY???? this is a sketch i started when the kids were here but only just finished ...of my sons girlfriend....partly from real life, partly from a photo of her for the details...rocking on the backporch....still have at least two more in this series NOT quite done...wonder why...SIX oclock meetings...

OH done in my wc moleskine with faber castell wc pencils!

Definitely NOT my best wc

once again done with wc pencils...colored at home...a quick sketch of a couple of the street vendors at the Farmers Market on Riverwalk in Augusta...as usual i forgot two legs of the table...hmmm.....wonder what that is about:> OH i know in a hurry!!

So i am sorry i forgot to

post this weekend...been busy sneezing, shopping and going to the gym...hanging out with relatives...my middle son and my brother his wife and kids...too busy to get to the computer...or not feeling like it when i could...I LOVE spring but the pollen just kills me...half an hour on the backporch and i am a mess...anyway...so here are two wc that i forgot to post...one for Friday and one for Saturday...as soon as i get the pics done of some i did this weekend...will post them...in my moleskine with wc pencils

Kids watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Friday...they were too delighted with this movie...watching it on the computer screen and on the big white board at the right...testing finally done

End of the year Dible testing for grades K-3 FINALLY done...these are the three stories that the second graders tested on...I could hardly test them for thinking of doing this journal page...BYTW green light means they passed...red light failed...yellow DANGER DANGER DANGER

So i thought i would

interject a petunia in the middle of the people sketches...stay tuned for more people tomorrow...this is wc pencil in my moleskine of one of my flowers on the backporch...reminiscent of Georgia O'Keefe...well maybe a little?! I mean it is a white petunia after all:>

So you all said you werent tired of people yet

This is one of my son that i actually did in wc...hes known as the lawyer with the pretty hair...which my neighbor another lawyer says translates as the ladies think hes the handsome lawyer..funny angle on his head because he wasnt really sitting up straight...nor was he sitting back on the sofa...i actually think this one looks a little like a vintage wc portrait from the 1800s...hes growing a mustache but thinks he needs the goattee part while he grows the mustache...strange i think but what do i know i am mom?!

So are you tired yet of wc sketches of people?

My sons girlfriend on the sofa...they kept taking turns cramming thier long bodies on the sofa while watching movies....She liked this picture very much...I think its very artsy and so does she! WC moleskine, faber castel wc pencils

as i said most days in may

posting two since i forgot to post any yesterday....the kids arriving for mothers day weekend kept me busy yesterday!!...in a good way...

this is a sketch from a photo of some of the kids hamming it up for the camera for Hat and Sunglasses day...the little girl in the middle is actually just gorgeous NOT that you can tell in this picture...the letters were supposed to be red UNTIL I smeared them ALOT ...only thing i could do was to paint all the outside background red and add blue letters....

OH the hat...Edgar was so eager to get to reading group that he just discarded/abandoned his well loved orange baseball hat on the table...also done from a picture...shouldnt take a picture of an orange baseball hat on a RED table...NO contrast!!!

in my wc moleskine with faber castell colored pencils...

another kid pic....most days in may...

Caught watching a movie...the backs of their heads will remain nameless! BYTW she was cold from the ac!! It blows like a gale wind...bbrrrrr

so far i am doing everyday in may...but you never know when that will change....thats why i am calling it MOST days in MAY....and everyone knows that teachers are crazy busy the last two weeks of school...may be helping the media specialist close out the library...and finishing up end of the year dibble testing and the best part of the end of the year...KINDERGARTEN graduation...doesnt get any better than watching them in all thier excitement!!

Everyday in May...

the cat obligingly posed on the table on the backporch...he thinks its his hunting preserve...hunting for chameleons...poor babies...he LOVES them...had a little trouble with the mesh top of the table...i mean HOW do you paint all the tiny mesh holes....and still keep it transparent..hmm and what happened to those chair legs on the left...and why is part of the table mesh and part not??? too many questions too many flaws BUT anyway here it is...i just have these all out order...should have been posted sunday...oh well...better late than never right?!