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Friday Etsy Favs and more

Happy Friday all.  I made a few changes to my blog - new banner, added flickr pictures, made some changes to new items.  BTW if you look on the right sidebar at the very top I always post anything new that comes up.  I update it frequently so have a look there regularly to see what's new.

Also been etsy hopping a lot and wanted to share a lot of my favorites these days ... check these guys out - unbelievable.

 

Have a good weekend all. Cathy

More doodling/sketching

Keeping occupied in the evening with colors and black and white:

Black and white abstract:

and more faces!

 

Happy, creative Thursday

 

Cathy

My latest obsessions (2)

I have 2 new obsessions - well not both are new, the first has always been an obsession:

 

Blank Journals

I know, I know it's crazy but I LOVE my journals!

And then I have been filling them with my next new obsession - drawing faces!  I am taking a class with Tamara Laporte which spurned these images.  Not quite there yet but it's coming:

Have a great creative day all!

 

Cathy

On Motivation

Have a good Monday All!

PS,  I took one of my drawings and used the lasso tool in photoshop to erase the center.

Cathy

New items in the shop

New items in the shop - check it out:

 

Have a great weekend!

 

Cathy

Valentine's preparation

Seems to me we just finished one big holiday (Christmas) and now we are all preparing for the next one - Valentine's day.  Ahh but this is a softer, gentler holiday to tell people we love, that we love them.  I promise to cover that this year.

Over at Shimmerz Stacey has a great promo on some beautiful new colors - just for valentine's day - check out these beautiful reds:

 

Go check it out over here

On a similar note I am preparing some new things for the shop re valentine's day - here's a sneak peak:

 

Have a good good creative day

 

Cathy

 

Sneak Peak to February 7

Hi all, I have been busy busy finishing off the details of my new online class coming out in February.

I created a new sneak peak video so you can see what's in store for you.  This will again be over at Creative Workshops and you can actually register now.  You can go over there and get more details too.

Here's the video - it's a little over 90 seconds.

 

Good wednesday

 

Cathy

Sketchbook Challenge

More stuff from my sketchbook as part of the Sketchbook Challenge:

 

My Copics are the best!

Leaf me alone  (LOL LOL)

 

ooops look again, not the same as the first one.

 

HaVe A GrEaT TuEsDaY

 

Cathy

Painting flowers with Shimmerz?

Happy Monday all. Today I am over at Shimmerz again and I am going to show you how I create flowers like those below using Shimmerz sprays - yes sprays.  

I made a  videothat shows you step by step how I did this.  Check it out over here

Also check out all the new colors that are out on the Shimmerz website.  They are special just for Valentine's day so please go and take a look.

Have a great, creative day

 

Cathy

Friday Flickr Favs

  

This year I started participating again in the Sketchbook Challenge.  It's a great way to keep yourself improving on your sketching and as you all know - I have lots of sketches so it's been fun participating.

 

So here below for my Friday Flickr Fav are some of my colleagues on the Sketchbook challenge flickr site:
Have a great weekend all

 

cathy

Easy-Peasy Journal Pages

Hi everyone, I am over at Shimmerz today to show you an Easy-Peasy Journal Page using Shimmerz.

You can check it out below or over here directly at the shimmerz site

Happy creative day to everyone Cathy

Being Honest

So I will be taking this month and part of next month off my regular day job to help organize my mother for her radiation treatments and also as per my doctor - to get a little rest. 

I have a tendency to set crazy unattainable goals for myself (vist mom hospital daily, spend more time with my son, do my artwork, go out with my husband, call friends, work 50 hours a week day job) and then I crash feeling so dissappointed that I wasn't able to complete everything.  Ugh - it seems to be a pattern with me and you would think by this point in my life that I would know this by now - but no - I have to crash to realize I have done it again.

So I have decided to just "breathe".  To go back to just doing the things I love and stop trying so hard to make everything happen.  I read somewhere recently that sometimes when you can't seem to get an answser to all your questions it's because you are not ready for the answer yet - that seems relevant to me at this time.

I'm going to sit back and just let things happen a little,,, enjoy things, take time, and most importantly - live in the NOW.  So easy to say and so hard to do - but I am going to try.

My word by the way for 2012 which I don't think I mentioned is CLARITY.  Just clarity - clarity to know clearly and precisely the path I should be following.

So somehow, as with all art, I have been furiously drawing these and I think I know why,

I see these girls as my "fairies",

 

My fairies that I believe are watching over me  ; )

My magical fairies - I love them!

 

Have a good Tuesday all

Cathy