Tag: emmett

Inktober 2020 Day 11: Disgusting

Posted in inktober 2020Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

I used a white posca pen (.7) and kuretake “wink of stella” glitter brush pen for the sparkly sloober. (Newfies have sloober, not slobber. It is a very definitive thing, trust me!) I love these pens, and will link them below.

(I am in the Amazon Associates program, and earn a tiny commission on purchases made through this blog… (thank you! I use the commission to purchase art supplies!) I only post items I love or use frequently, and link things at the best price I find them, but prices fluctuate frequently, so do shop around and make sure you are finding the best deal!)

Kuretake Wink of Stella glitter brush pen: https://amzn.to/34UY8QN

Set of three white Posca paint pens: https://amzn.to/33SrwHR

(As an Amazon Associate I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. I only suggest items I have tried and enjoy using myself. Thank you for your support!)

5/29/2018- watercolor journal tour

Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , 8 Comments

I found my missing watercolor journal! The one I apparently lost last September or so and then forgot about. I didn’t realize it was missing until I found it yesterday. And I found the white wrist sweatband I was telling you about last week, that I wrap around my travel palette and use to wipe my brushes on. AND a travel palette I’d looked for a few times this winter. YAY!! The journal is less than half finished, but the pictures in it are so cute, I thought I’d give you a little tour.

My beetle, and garage:

IMG_0995

a friend’s adorable house, and a partial window (the window was a Peter Sheeler youtube tutorial):

 

IMG_0994

A group of random girls walking arm in arm down Duke of Gloucester Street in historic colonial Williamsburg… so cute…

IMG_0989

and my husband and Emmett: newfie(dog) (before we got the second one) [dog, not husband]…

A few historic colonial buildings:

IMG_0993

Sitting in the rain at my son’s college graduation,

IMG_0992

my sister-in-law laughing with my grandson, goats climbing a goat tower. (seems random, I know, but these are all memories from 2017 and it is so fun to see them again!)

IMG_0990

A peacock (specifically to try some shiny shimmery gold paint):

IMG_0991

my granddaughter looking at a horse on the little farm behind my house (which they’ve torn down this month to develop into a neighborhood!), and the farm in color:

IMG_0988

 

I’m so glad I have these memories. This experience has convinced me I need to sketch and paint more of my day to day events, places, people I interact with. It really means more to me than I thought it would. And as horrible as my memory is (and it IS!!!), I remember EACH of these scenes clearly, the real actual moment they are from. So drawing them must have cemented them into my brain differently than just taking a photo.

And just for kicks, here is Emmett watching television. So you can see how huge-ish he is really getting. I think he’s gotta be about 140 pounds now.

9cMX+eoyT0uO5WLc7rBAmg

 

Day 197 (Sun July 16) Crazy newfie watercolor

Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

I want to learn ways to paint a big fuzzy black dog, so googled newfie watercolor art, and found something looking a little like this (only much better) I’ll try it again another time but this DOES capture the spirit of Emmett pretty well, I think. He’s nuts.

IMG_3628

This was for a journal entry I’m working on for a friend on Swap-bot, a very fun site I’m a member of, and I included a poem I wrote years ago about another dog I had.

Painted with Daniel Smith watercolor on some type of parchment.

The bravest, dearest, sweetest heart on Earth
Rests within my dog’s big furry chest.
(Well, maybe not the bravest…
But of all the world, he does love me the best.)

In his perception I’m the greatest friend.
I’m always right… of that there’s never doubt.
I’m simply never wrong.
If I say “in”, it’s in… if I say “out”, it’s out.

He loves the way I speak, my voice, my sound.
He loves to hear me say his name out loud.
He tries to make me smile.
He’ll follow my voice even in a crowd.

In his eyes I look just the way I should;
Change my looks, I’m still the perfect me.
He doesn’t think I’m fat.
My face, and hair, exactly as should be.

Never has he gotten mad at me.
Even when I’ve lost my temper first.
He showers me with love.
He loves me at my best and at my worst.

He comes to sit beside me as I work,
And never tells me “no” if I say “play”.
He tries to be my friend.
He loves me still if I push him away.

And when I’m empty, shattered and alone,
And hiding broken pieces from the rest,
When no one else is there,
He moves in close and offers me his best.

Even though I look at him with love,
Never have I given him his due.
And yet he never sways.
I wish I could be that sweet hearted, too.

A break from art for my puppy’s birthday!

Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , , , 1 Comment

No, I didn’t SKIP my art… just a non-art post. Doc Emmett Brown is our (now) one year old Newfoundland puppy. I don’t know if he can really be called a puppy at 120 pounds? But he’s still using a puppy brain, so I say YES. Since I occasionally sketch him, I figured he could be here, and I thought I’d link my other blog. It started out as an everything blog but now has become The Emmett Diaries. I don’t post often there but like to now and then, and hope to more frequently. You can go there to read about Emmett’s first birthday

And follow the blog if you want to hear more about Emmett! I can’t post a video here, but there’s a quick on one here on Youtube… okay, it isn’t very interesting… Emmett eating his birthday ice cream and drooling all over it. But I’m sure they will get more interesting over time! He’s a pretty fascinating fellow.

Happy birthday, baby!!

Day 151 (Wed 5/31) Trying something a little different, but only slightly

Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

A big full page sketch. Turns out, I like the smaller ones better, and like them not filling the page. But I did enjoy the freedom this extra space gave me while working on the man and the dog. This is my husband, btw, and our Newfie, Emmett, in a pose fairly typical of our life now. I don’t think I quite captured my husband’s angle of lean. 🙂 It was pretty extreme. That’s the Sloober towel hanging out of his pocket. (you’ll have to look sloober up on the other blog, allthecrazyworld.wordpress.com)

Emmett was not being as sad as he appears… just stubborn.