Shelly Loke

Tomorrow begins yet another month of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ ).  It is a time for stretching yourself to meet your life goals head on.  You say you have no time for writing a novel?  Nonsense.  Just turn off the TV, become a hermit for a few days of the week, and eat lots of cold cereal, fresh fruit, cheese sandwiches, and noodle soup.  Honestly, if you follow the exercise as it is intended to be you can do it in as little as an hour a day.  You just have to type and add words without turning back to edit.  If you goof, then start writing again as if you had not.  Add new words and never delete.  All the rest of the months of the year are for polishing.  This month we empty our brains.

Brain Child

As an extra challenge for myself I am also going to finish two 8X8 art works in that time.

The drawing panels are ready! Are you?

Nothing like belting out a few dinosaurs for a morning warm up.   I am still trying to beat out the look of this blog.  The code is fighting me tooth and nail but I’ll crack it somehow.

Eataful-saurous

Standard rexish dino with a side of daisy. Center alignment.

Tryminik

It is never a long day watching a gallery when you draw!  We had a lot of neat visitors at the Grafton Mill art gallery.  Most of them had never been there before.  Be sure you stop into the Grafton Mill when you next need a gift for someone.  There are items from purses and vintage jewelry to wild life art.  Kids cloths, soaps and lotions, and bottle cap jewelry are also among the treasures available.  Artisan made and fairly priced!

Little brown unicorn

Tiger Blanket

Peacock

Green rabbit yellow mouse

Eye fish

I have been working on a custom illustration.  My challenge, a field sketch drawing from an alien world.

familiar yet strange.

a balance

Notes and drawings while watching a speaker from Northwind perennial farm.

Unicorns and notes

I have been working on everything from a Vlad Tepes hat for a Halloween to a custom drawing of alien wildlife in a journal page style.  Here, have a kitten.  It is an innocent striped kitten who is lost in the desert.

very thirsty kitten

I am currently running a kickstarter program to fund the printing of one of my favourate pieces.  Go take a look:

Octopus in Sunflowers!