The Amber Award

Here is a great award that one of my neices gave me this past November. I call it the Amber Award, because of her name. It had been resting on my refrigerator and when she gave me this, I was moved to tears. Then she showed me the back side and the tears began to fall.

Earlier in the evening she asked me if I were an art teacher and I blushed like crazy lol. It was later on that I was presented with this wonderful surprise. I felt like I was somebody lol.

In January after she and her sister were going through my sketch books and looking at a failed attempt at a water color painting, her sister Alycia exclaimed "Auntie Pam, are you an artist?" Hmm an artist I had never thought of myself that way before. I will totally accept that! :)

Now, I have some sense of how parents feel when their children draw or paint pictures for them. I am going to move my Amber Award from my fridge and put it into a frame that I have already picked out. Thank you Auntie's princesses for making me feel so special. Maybe the next time we are together, we will make more refrigerator magnets or try our hands again at making keychains :)

EDM #33--Draw an Eye

Here is my challenge for EDM #33 Draw an Eye. This morning when I got up there was no electricity because of the storms that had come through overnight. The house was such a peaceful quietness that was sooo very calming. There was no music playing (my favorite way to draw) or the television on for noise. Absent also were the sounds of the refrigerator or the heater coming back to life to contend with.

There was nothing but complete stillness and quiet. I drew two different eyes and wanted to also add a matching pair. I am pleased with what I have completed in these 2 single eyes. It isn't easy to find good pictures of eyes in magazines that have enough clarity and detail to work from. I got these from one of my books.

Thank you for looking, I also look forward to your comments. The graphite pencils I used were H,B, and 2B. I'm working on various face parts and hope to put them together to make a face..well errr draw from someone's face that is lol.

Weekend Doodle #3--Different pencils

Here are some of the better doodles that I did yesterday. It was a very relaxing day and I hadn't done anything in a while. All of a sudden I heard myself say..."Self, you should go get a new sketchbook" and then I said outloud "Ok Self, sounds good to me!" and off I went lol. I hope that my dry season has come to a close. Although I carry my sketchbook everywhere I go, I just didnt get the urge to do any doodling let along any challenges in EDM..I hope to get back into those soon..I also got a new book too...I'm a bad gurl with a busted budget lol!

Thanks for looking, I worked with various graphite leads, B, 2B, 4B and an HB pencil..Im working on it :)