Quick Watercolor from Mendocino

In addition to carrying my point and shoot and snapping a few photos in Mendocino, I also toted the pencils, watercolors and a little notebook. I, for my first time ever, sat at a restaurant and did a sketch which, I painted when I got back to our room. It's a little scary drawing in public because what if people want to see what you are doing and your kind of a beginner and what if they think your art is terrible. I was brave. It was fun!

A Few Days in Mendocino

I spent the last few days of my spring break in Mendocino, CA. I love Mendocino. It is beautiful and small and cozy and sweet and for me, the list goes on and on. Here are a few shots from my weekend in this special, little coastal town.

PMS

It is difficult to practice balance on a conscious level when your hormones go into wild swirls of imbalance on a subconscious level.
The title of this drawing is "PMS with Chicken Legs". Because that is what I see when I look at it. :-)

Balance

A life-long lesson.

Life's Wonders

This may very well be one of those photos that is better left on my hard drive or memory card but I am just so excited about the nest, I want to show/tell everyone about it. I have a Lotus vine (also known as parrots beak) that is quite happy after the winter rains, growing as a hanging plant on my patio. A few days ago I noticed some stuff was coagulating in the leaves - I checked it out and figured it was probably an abandoned nest with engineering malfunctions. But I left it alone. I went out again today to look closer after watching a bird poking around at it. It is a full blown, beautifully built nest. Not the sit-on-top type. It is more like a sac. A perfectly round hole, aka doorway, was built right into the top third of the little palace. It is so cool! It is made of feathers, reindeer moss, leaves, fur and all kinds of other stuff. I guess I should take a macro shot so you can see the mastery weaving. It's truly amazing. I believe it is a house finch nest mainly because that is what I see feasting most often on a feeder I have on the other side of my patio. I am so excited to see what comes of it - maybe there are already little eggs in there. I am not sure, I can't see down through the hole and I don't want to upset my new house mates.

House Morph

I have been so busy with school. I think I am learning more about time management than the topics I signed up for. Crazy. I'll get through it but time for art - even the art classes I am registered in - is limited.
Here is a morph series I did in ink for my intermediate drawing class. It is a house morphing into a barn. It looks better when the drawings are side by side but space is tight here on Blogger.