HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! First Post of 2022!

Wishing you all a HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR! Prayers that it's a better year for all of us, although there has been much to be thankful for, despite all of the scary stuff!

We saw the new year in, but only because midnight is our usual bedtime. We woke up around six a.m., got up, had coffee, hubby checked the weather and I sketched a bit and checked FB. We both got sleepy, so we went back to bed about 8:00 a.m. and slept until a little after ten, and had another cup of coffee while I worked on my blog book and hubby fixed breakfast for me and his cats. I'm almost ready for another nap! 😴

I just finished putting together a book of last year's blog posts and got it ordered, so I got that done before the Blog to Print promotional discount goes off! At least, I got that much accomplished today...

Oh, and I put brown kraft paper over my new desk top for scribbling!

So this is my first sketch, first art, and first post of the new year, as it's pouring rain outside and we are under a tornado watch until tonight.

Last night I did a quick sketch in my square sketchbook of a girl from my imagination with a General water soluble pencil, added water, and left her to dry. This morning I re-sketched her eyes and added some darks and details with a Stablio pencil. I like her! 

I also did some more watercolor "rock" practice, letting colors flow into one another, in a small square Handbook Journal that I've had for a while, but hadn't started. I thought it was watercolor paper, but it wasn't, so the paper still buckled in the too wet places. Fun, nevertheless!

They say that whatever you do on New Year's Day is what you'll do the rest of the year, so I've done a bit of art, hoping I'll get to do a lot of it this year. Now I need to clean a bit, because, Lord knows, the house needs it!

Have an amazing day and do something you love! It's good for your soul!