Sketchbook Revival 2026 Classwork

 I completed 18 of the 36 free video classes, plus 3 bonus gift classes, in this year's Sketchbook Revival 2026 during the two week session. I could have opted to buy the VIP package, which includes all the classes, plus a lot of bonuses, etc., to keep from now on, which I did last year, but I decided not to this year, although the price is definitely worth it. Just too much else going on, but I learned a lot from the generous teachers, as well as the other students shared work on the Facebook group page. So fun to see all the different interpretations of the same classes!

I did all my classes as samples in my 7"x10" Winsor Newton sketchbook, 135 lb mixed media paper, two to a page (5"x7" each), which worked great for most of the work. Some would have worked better on paper better suited to the particular media, but it worked well enough to help me remember the lessons, so it's all good!

Here are the classes I completed, in no particular order. I watched the videos, took notes, and made a photo of the teacher's finished piece, and later made copies of the notes and pictures, cut them apart, and glued them to the backs of my art pieces for future reference.

The first class was actually a pre-class, before the classes started, which was how to make an Australian Piano Hinge journal/sketchbook. Many of the students used theirs to do the classes in. I didn't, but I will definitely use it as a sketchbook/journal, and I want to make another one soon. So fun!

The Australian Piano Hinge sketchbook/journal I made. The pages can be taken in and out to work on or switch around. For more pictures see the previous post on just the sketchbook.

Drawing one image from different angles-pencil and a red colored pencil-I didn't actually watch the class video on this one, because I had already taken a similar class last year, but I kept seeing the others' pages and decided to do it just for fun, so I sketched a small red bottle of red Sumi ink in different positions, quickly.

Samples of my pages of notes-I had several of them...

The first class I took was with Helen Wells in her "Trees" class, which was interesting. We sketched different things with tree shapes, then painted watercolor blobs and gave them tree shapes. All ideas for jumpstarting sketchbook pages. I love her sketchbook work!

This a class on Mood Minis with Cynthia Hauk, in watercolor with a bit of neurographic drawing. It was also on "mindfulness", with questions about the art and my interpretation of it, which gets written on the left side that I haven't done yet, but I sure did enjoy the painting part! And I will do the writing part!

Left was a class with Jane Davies on Visual Prompts, which started with a couple of collage pieces and wound up using mixed media. Right side isn't from a class, but it's where I cleaned watercolor off my brush and accidentally made a tree! I liked it, so I glued it down!

I've always loved Sumi-e painting and have tried it before, with not much luck, so I wanted to try it again. The teacher was Karou Hirose, and she explained and showed it in a simple way in three basic strokes with Sumi ink, then we put them together to form a bamboo tree. She also showed us a bluebird, a cherry blossom, and Japanese Maple leaves using the same three strokes. Mine are on another sheet! Right are Eucalyptus leaves in watercolor with Amy Maricle. They are usually greenish, but we painted them blue too! I like how they turned out...

Left is a page in watercolor that I didn't really like until I added the Sumi ink with a stick and the little eye magically appeared. It was a class with Julie Fei-Fan Belzer on using ideas from our sketchbooks to create new pages. The Sumi ink with a stick is an idea from other pages. It's actually a little brighter than it looks here. Right was a Collage and Stitch class with Rita Summers, where we created a collaged piece, then using various threads to stitch on it. I printed off a copy of one of my artworks for the background and added some scrapbook paper pieces and a round paperclip, then stitched away!

Left is from the class Self Portrait on toned paper with Ohn Mar Win. Mine doesn't look much like me, and I let my white Posca pen get away from me, but it's a fun process, which I will try again. The paper is actually blue, but looks gray here. Right is inspired by Amanda Traught's class on Embellishing Faces. I printed off one of my sketchbook drawings in black and white to decorate with a Micron pen and a Zig marker.

Left was inspired by Kaisa Hart's class Messy to Magical, where we took a sketch we didn't like, and using mixed media, added layers until we did like it. I used a smaller printed off version of my embellished face, markers, a stencil, Zig marker, Micron pen, etc. I'm ok with it. Right is inspired by Helen Wells bonus/gift class with cut outs, collage, and mark making.

I cut shapes out of paper that I had painted black acrylic paint on and added a red Posca marker, gold metallic paint pen, and a stencil. Oh, and a few spatters!

Left is inspired by Drew Steinbrecher's class From Sidewalk to Sketchbook, using photos of urban images, patterns, textures, words, etc. collaged onto a page. I live on a small farm, so I used photo images from the last field trip around the old homeplace. The old house belonged to my gr-grandparents, then my grandparents, then my parents, and now me. I live on the same farm, just a different house. The blue glass ball is from my yard, and if you look closely you can see my silhouette in the center of it taking the picture. I titled it "Home", because it is! Right painting was from Debbie MacKinnon's class Fast and Loose in Mixed Media on Location. The background is watercolor with white gouache added to the middle, because I overdid the blue-brown mix. The two conjoined trees are in our yard, and I added them with Sumi ink on a stick, then collaged a print of our water fountain figures to the bottom. 

Both of these were inspired by Jeanne Oliver's class Let Your Mind Play Tricks on You, which involved quite a bit of experimenting and playing. I painted a random image on my mini gelli plate with black acrylic paint, then stamped it on a piece of brown paper bag, a couple of pieces of printer paper, and the last print was on a paper where I cleaned off my paint brushes (below). I glued the brown paper down, left, then added a bit of collage scrapbook papers and some Sumi ink brush marks. Right, I glued the page below down and used tracing paper over it with cut outs. The top paper has a very loose sketch of what's underneath, and the second paper has a loosely traced image of the top sheet. The teacher had onion paper, which was translucent, but I only had tracing paper, but I like how it turned out. Can't wait to do a bigger one!

The stamped paper under the tracing papers on the page above...

Left is a page of 10 journaling prompts from Karen Abend, the host of Sketchbook Revival. It was one of the first classes, but I did it almost last. Some good ideas on getting started journaling! Right is the bonus/gift class Sumi-e Birds in Flight from Karou Hirose in watercolor and Sumi ink, plus the top bird, cherry blossom, and Japanese Maple leaves from the main class.

Last two classes completed, and I wasn't going to do them until I kept seeing, and being inspired by, the other students work, and I'm so glad I did them! Left was inspired by Bindi Desai's Abstract Florals With Negative Painting. Not as easy as it looked! I, for sure, need to do another one, but it was fun pulling the flowers out of the painted background! Right is from Trupti Karjinni's class Intuitive Landscapes. Such fun to watch the watercolors do their thing, even if I didn't add as many trees as she did in the background. My paint absorbed into my paper too fast. 

And that's it for this year for me, except for putting what I've learned into practice!

Thank you to all of the generous teachers from all over the world, to Karen Abend for hosting, and to all of the other students for sharing their work on the group page and inspiring me every day! 

I have learned so much, and I am proud of myself for being brave enough to try all of the classes that I did. They were all challenging, but great fun, and I enjoyed the processes so much! I did miss Karen Stamper though. I loved her classes last year!

 I have a tendency to watch the class videos, take notes, then do the work from memory, so my finished pieces may not have taken the same route that the teacher's did, but I'm proud of what I've accomplished this year. Can't wait until next year's classes!

If you're still with me, Thank you for looking, and I hope you've enjoyed it! See you next post!

Besties, Another Sketchbook Revival 2025 Class, Random Sketches

I've been wanting a picture of my two best friends and me for a long time. We've never had one made of the three of  us together before, and we've been besties since grade school. We are all 76 now, and our lives are very different from each other, but we all still live within a couple of miles of each other, so we see and talk to each other often. We've always tried to be there for each other through all of life's ups and downs.

Nina, the one wearing pants, comes every Sunday, and Lennie, in the dress, comes when she can, and we text/talk in between. Lennie also happens to be married to one of my favorite cousins, and we all graduated together. They all still work and stay very busy. This day, they both happened to be here, along with hubby's cousin, and I happened to think of the picture I wanted, so this is one of them. They were both glad I did it!

Don't know what I would do without them, and I can't imagine life without them!

This is another Sketchbook Revival 2025 bonus class that I sketched off and took notes for at the beginning of the classes. I knew I wanted to do one. It just took me a while! It was a class with Melanie Rivers, called "Butterfly Love", I think, and it's mixed media. It's almost 4" x 4" square on mixed media paper, and the butterfly I collaged on was a little too large, so I had to clip it's wings a bit. I loved doing it though, and I like how it turned out! I will do another one...

I sketched this one from imagination, all in one line, then added a little shading and some watercolor and gouache, plus a bit of acrylic. Not happy with the blackish on the flowers and may go back and do something else at some point. The random blobs came from smashing this page onto the opposite page, which I am doing a mixed media abstract on, and I needed to get rid of some excess paint. I like it. Just an experiment and learning experience!

I sketched this one all in one line from my imagination with a Micron pen and left it as is. Fun!

This one is an experiment that went very wrong. I used my Sanguine colored brush pen and sketched these at first with one line, then tried to fix it. I learned from it though!

Another one from imagination and my micron pen and one line, then I added the flowers, heart, etc. I like it and may add some color.

I did this one yesterday from my recliner with my Micron pen. It sits on top of our fireplace mantle, and the only light was from the kitchen, so it was dark and I couldn't see it very well. I did get it taller in ink than the original, but that's ok. It was still good practice.

It's a sketch of a bouquet of dried multicolored (oranges, yellows, etc) roses from a cousin, for my mom's funeral. They were arranged in a small basket, about a dozen of them, and it was so beautiful that I have kept them in a glass jar that I found at mama's house. I got the idea off Pinterest. I meant to tie a ribbon around  the lid, but have never gotten around to it. I still love them!

I sketched this one this morning, also from my recliner with my Micron pen, with very little light. The reference is one of my oil paintings, done many years ago with oil glazes, and it won first prize at our art guild art show. It's one of the few still lifes that I actually set up and painted from, and it's a painting of a favorite white ceramic lamb, purchased at a flea market, a small clear bottle that I did some etching on, holding pink and purple African violets, and a new pair of ballet slippers, also purchased at the flea market. I painted it many many years ago, but I still love it.

Anyway, that's it for my sketching practice this week! I'm still working on a few watercolors, a little at a time, as they tell me what they need. Three of them (a crow, a goat, and an abstract) are right at the point that I can live with them, but it may be a few days yet before I can share them.

I had to go back to the retina specialist for a three month check up September 18. I didn't have to have a shot in my eye three months ago, but the bleeding spot was a little bigger than before, so the Dr. gave me a booster shot, which I kind of felt this time, and it took my eye a bit longer to get over it. I don't have to go back for six months though, unless the black spot in my vision comes back, in which case I need to go back ASAP. Now I have to make an appointment with my regular eye doctor for our six month checkup there, only it's now been seven months. It's getting hard to keep track!

The specialist is a good ways out of town, so on the way home hubby and I swung by the Dragonfly coffee shop in Collinwood, TN for a slice of their delicious strawberry cheesecake and coffee. We treat ourselves to this any time we're near there, and we only get one slice between us, because that's plenty, as it so rich, and we are both diabetic, and we pull into a parking lot somewhere and eat it and drink our coffee. We love it. This time I also got one of their large brownies, which I ate on for two days, and it was scrumptious! Hubby did eat a couple of bites. I will definitely be buying another brownie next time! 

I love the Dragonfly. They have all kinds of interesting stuff in there besides baked goods and all kinds of hot or cold drinks, and they are very friendly.

In other exciting news, we had a mouse visitor this week. It jumped off the counter top into my piled up dining room/studio and disappeared. I've spent two days moving EVERYTHING out and around and back in there. I cleaned the floor under stuff down one wall and put the china cabinet and shelves back. I meant to do another yesterday, but had company and my back was spent, so that ship sailed. I meant to take the curtains down and wash them and the windows today, but so far that's not happening either. Ha! Lots of boxes to sort through and organize...Ugh!

It doesn't seem like Sunday today. Our friend usually comes after church on Sundays, but she had other plans today and came yesterday instead. We hardly know what to do with ourselves when she doesn't come! Not many Sundays in our married life that we haven't had company on Sunday. I have done this blog post though, which catches me back up with posts, so that's a good thing. So much to be grateful for!

I hear the popcorn popper calling, so I guess that's next on the agenda for today! We do love our popcorn!

Thanks for visiting! I hope you enjoyed my rambling. Take care and be well and creative!

More Watercolor Sketches/Experiments & Sketchbook Revival 2025 #37

 Doing something every day boosts your confidence, as well as your skill set, and practice makes you better, whatever you want to do. I have gained much from the sketchbook revival classes, but I've gained even more by showing up and doing the practice every day, and I'm so thankful to have had the time and discipline to do it, even if it's in sketchbooks. I can't wait to start painting on canvas, boards, and good watercolor paper in a larger format again, and maybe now I have the confidence to finish some of the works in progress that have been waiting for a long time now. Hopefully, my eyes and my health will hold out to let me do that. I don't have time for housework! Thank goodness that hubby doesn't mind! Ha!

This one was inspired by an online photo of an abandoned house. I have a bad habit of not allowing enough room for things, and this was no exception. I drew it on a 7"x10" page on mixed media paper in my sketchbook in pencil. I should have made it smaller, because I ran out of room and had to leave the end of the house, with a balcony, off, but that's ok. It was still good practice with drawing and using watercolor. About half way through the watercoloring I decided to go over the lines with my micron ink pen. I like the character of it! I love old things and their stories!

The last Sketchbook Revival class I've done, so far, is "Paint Expressive Florals" with Juliet Meeks. It's painting loose and free intuitive flowers in watercolor just for fun, and practice. A fun exercise! I have one blank page left in my current class sketchbook, and it will be full. BUT I have a new one to christen and many more classes to sample!

Just for fun and relaxation! Each girl is sketched with one continuous line with a micron pen in my mixed media sketchbook. I don't know why I had never tried the micron pens before. I love them! 

This page started off with me slightly wetting the page, even though this mixed media paper doesn't really like being wet, and it will buckle and roll if very wet, but I lightly sprayed this page, then cleaned off my watercolor palette. I used a brush to clean each color and applied them to the damp page, letting them run and merge together. Then I dipped a brush in red and made some marks on top of that and let the page dry while I washed off my palette. When it was dry, there was a suggestion of the three red flowers, so I painted an imaginary bouquet (my favorite kind), making it up as I went. It could probably use some more work, but I've decided to leave well enough alone...

When I got up this morning, I was determined, and had planned on, finishing up at least two of the five paintings I'm working on (because I have to have more than one project at a time in progress), but my mind was scattered due to some business stuff, so I wound up sketching my painting set up, plus a bottle of calamine lotion, sitting in front of my chair. I ate breakfast, then dealt with the business stuff, took a walk around our yard, came back inside and sketched the girl from a music video on TV, before writing and posting the post before this one. So this is the second blog post today, and I'm caught up until I finish another sketch! 

I've lost track of how many photos I have posted on here this year, but I know it's a LOT, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to afford to have a blog book printed for my records. :(

I do have a lot of photos to choose from for the calendars that I gift to family/friends for Christmas though. I just have to edit them and put the calendar together, if I can afford that this year. They are not cheap! We'll see.

Anyway, we're having beautiful fall like weather right now, although I'm sure there will be some more hot days to come. I hope it's beautiful where you are too. Have a wonderful week and take care of you! 

Watercolor Elephant Sketch and Sketchbook Revival 2025 Class #35 and #36

 Hello! I'm behind on my posting, AGAIN. My days get by so fast, even though we've stopped sleeping so late. Not sure if time has speeded up, or I've slowed down a lot. Maybe a bit of both? 

Anyway, I'm still trying to sketch something every day and paint some most days, and I did these a few days ago.

I decided to see if I could paint an elephant when a photo of one appeared on the cover of the Cooperative farming magazine that we received a couple of months back. It turned out much better than I expected, and I surprised myself! I was inspired by  that photo and sketched it off in pencil, then used watercolor and mostly a water pen brush in my mixed media Canson sketchbook. Such fun bringing him to life! I love his character!

This one was inspired by a character on a TV movie. I think they might have been vampires? Not a likeness, but I paused the TV and sketched her face and cloak hood with a pencil in my Canson mixed media book, then, for some reason, I decided to give the hood some red watercolor. Maybe I will go back at some point and go over the pencil with ink, but I kind of like the watercolor /pencil mix. I am trying to do more faces in different poses than just straight on. Not the best, but I learned from her, and the experiments continue!

Same sketch as above, but with a warm black/white filter. Not sure which I like the best?

Just for fun, and a break, I used a micron pen and drew this one with one continuous line, making up the flowers as I went. I didn't worry about edges, composition, or anything. Just let things go where they wanted to. Fun stuff! Watercolor and ink in mixed media sketchbook.

This little sketch was inspired by an old family photo of my great-aunt. I didn't try for a likeness, and her face looks younger than she was, but I was just practicing the whole figure. Her brother was actually in the photo with her, but I didn't have the nerve that day to try drawing him. I left room on the page for him though! Pencil in mixed media sketchbook

Sketchbook Revival class, "Florals in Watercolor and Ink" with Neesha Merani was interesting and fun to try. It wasn't near as easy as she made it look, and I squeezed the bouquet into too small a space to fit my class sketchbook, which is mixed media hot pressed paper. I like the techniques though and will try again on larger watercolor paper! Practice makes better! I think?

Sketchbook Revival class, "Serendipity Stories" with Laly Mille was also very interesting and fun. We used mixed media to let a story reveal itself, and once again I squeezed a lot into a small space in my class book. I plan to do a larger one though! So much fun gathering up and using the different media to tell a story!

That's it for this post, but not all my art trials! I do have another post draft ready, but I will finish and post it later. I also have some sketches that I haven't scanned yet.

I had to get a new computer with Windows 11, and I have been getting it all set up and everything transferred from my old one to my new one, and also trying to learn the new stuff with the new Windows 11 that I use. Takes a lot of time and focus to switch over, and then hubby needs a new one, which I will have to set up for him. Fun stuff. NOT. But thankful we can get new ones and I can set them up, so far.

So much going on that I get overwhelmed trying to keep up with everything. Seems like everyone I know is in the same boat with me. So thankful I have art, and other crafts, to keep me sane!

Thank you for your visit and your support! Stay safe and well, and keep making stuff! 

Sketchbook Revival 2025-Two Mixed Media Classes

 This is my 34th class in the sketchbook revival classes, and although it didn't turn out anything like it was supposed to, I loved it, both the process and the outcome.

Mixed Media in my small sketchbook with notes and with a folded page added to my book page to make a three part concertina piece. I got a bit carried away with my sepia and India inks over collage, which made it dark, but it has many layers of collage, inks, paints and marks making a background for a city scape. It wasn't supposed to be this busy, so that I could sketch buildings over it, but it looks kind of like a city at night to me, and I can see all sorts of mini scenes within it, so, even though I could go back in with gesso, etc., and lighten it up a lot, I choose to leave it as it is. 

Same piece without the notes. All of the nuances don't show up in the photo like they really are. I still love it! It was so much fun! 

I enjoyed the first try so much that I turned the two added page folds over and did another one on the back with only two parts. It's not quite as busy and dark, but still too busy to draw buildings over, I guess. Again, I can see all these wonderful little scenes within that I love, so I'm also leaving it as is, because I love it. Both inspired by Karen Stamper's class "Start Your Pages With Mixed Media Mark Making". 

This one, also a lot of fun, was inspired by Iris Fritschi-Cussens's class "Mixed Media Play", and involved many layers of acrylic paints, markers, pencils, ink, etc. I used a single page, where the teacher did a double page spread, and I tried to incorporate all the techniques she shared, which is a no-no, but it'll help me remember better when I do one in a larger format. I love how it turned out, too, and look forward to doing the next one.

I think I have about taken all of the classes in the sketchbook revival, for now, that I'm really interested in. Well, there is one more that I know of, then I may take a break and practice what I've learned. Or, who knows, someone else in the group may post their page from another class that will pique my interest. There are over 130 classes to choose from!

I am also working in a little bit larger Canson sketchbook, and I currently have seven sketches done, six of which I'm adding watercolor to. So, I'm still trying to do a sketch a day of random subjects, plus adding color to some. Keeping my mind and hands busy!

Take care and keep creating!

Sketchbook Revival 2025 + Extra Sketches in a New Sketchbook

 I'm still taking the Sketchbook Revival classes, but I'm also working in a couple of sketchbooks on my own stuff. I'm working on the last page of one sketchbook and beginning a new one. Both are 7" x 10" mixed media paper.

I almost skipped this class, but I'm so glad I didn't. I love to write, so this one was right down my alley, once I checked it out. It is inspired by Rachel Rose in her class "Mindful Inspirations, a Thumbnail Sketch", and it involves holding your thumb up to objects in the room around you until something, or a portion of something, gets your attention. My thumb landed on my handmade cane that my dad made for me many years ago, so I sketched that, then wrote a few lines about it, like it was doing the talking. Then I picked out three to five key words from the lines to evoke an image in my imagination, sketched it and wrote a few lines about that, using the key words.

In my case, the cane evoked memories of my dad and his mom (because she always used one for more than just walking, that looked much like mine), and the key words evoked memories of my other grandparents and the old homeplace where I grew up and still live near. The house is very much real, and not imaginary, but that's the image that the talking walking stick evoked me to write about. The walking stick reminds me of my dad and my granny every time I use it, and I love walks out to the old homeplace, which connects me to my other granny and papa, which leads to much to write about! So many memories!

I haven't written anything in a long time, but this class has made me want to again!

This class was also one I hesitated on, but it was worth doing. It involved taking one object and drawing a page full of it from different angles, moods, and sizes, using different mediums. Also, they are supposed to be timed sketches. I don't normally like drawing the same thing more than once, or twice, but this was an interesting exercise that I did with a key on a ring. I did skip the charcoal sketch and the really large sketch, because I didn't want to draw over what I had already done, which the teacher did. From the class "Object Observation: Quick Drawing Exercises" with Susan Yeates.

A page in my new sketchbook just for fun. I used a water brush pen filled with India ink to paint a large "S" with a couple of ink drops over a page that I had sprayed water on. As the ink spread on the damp paper I added some salt sprinkles and let dry, then brushed off. When it was all dry, I added the bars in threes with the large end of my Zig marker. 

Another one just for fun. I drew three circles, using a round tape core for a template, Then I added the straight lines with a ruler, all with a black Zig marker. I sprayed the page with water and dropped Indigo, yellow, and red watercolors onto the page and let them mingle, adding color until I was happy with it. I painted it vertically, but after turning it, I liked it better horizontally. I like it!

This isn't from a class, but I used techniques that I learned in a few of the classes. I used a couple of pictures of seagulls that I took on our 2019 road trip out west to sketch and paint, in ink and watercolor, these three wandering around the parking lot of the Missouri motel we stayed in on our way home. There were actually many more or these, but I liked these three poses, especially the middle one, who was looking right at me. Fun to do. They taught me some stuff!

So that's it for now! It's so hot outside, and I've been dealing with vertigo this week, but I managed to get in some art therapy every day! So good for me! I think I'd be crazy otherwise?

Sketchbook Revival 2025: Birds

 I've been trying my hand at birds again! I followed along with the teacher, Julia Bausenhardt, in the video "How to Draw a Bird in Five Easy Steps". It's in watercolor, and I'm not familiar with this bird, but it's a Bluetit, according to the teacher. 

I kind of did it backwards, but I painted along with her and took notes first, then went back and added the diagram the next day. I tend to get watercolor thicker and brighter than most people. Possibly because my eyes are giving me trouble. Anyway, it was fun to learn and do!

The next one is a seagull from an original photo that I took on our road trip out west in 2019. We were on our way back home and spent the night in Missouri. There was a flock of seagulls in the parking lot of the motel we stayed in, and I captured some of them on film.

I enjoyed working out the drawing and painting it in ink and watercolor!

This one was really a challenge! I saw a photo of a pink bird amongst pink flowers online, and it was so pretty that I decided to try painting it. Not exactly like the photo, because I can't copy anything exactly, even if I wanted to, but it was certainly inspired by the photo. I'm not sure what kind of bird it is. Maybe a parakeet or a parrotlet? The background was as much of a challenge as the bird was, and I got the pinks too purple from the start, and as hard as I tried, I couldn't get rid of it, so I just finally went with it. The pinks were actually more of an orange-pink, which is what attracted me to it in the first place.

It's not perfect, but I'm glad I tackled it. It taught me a lot! Ink and watercolor-The classes in Sketchbook Revival have helped me gain so much, not just in knowledge, but in confidence too. I'm so glad I signed up and have stayed with the classes!

Below is my actual workspace, and, believe it, or not, I do actually work there sometimes. It is our dining room table, which I started organizing my art supplies on, but in the midst of sorting I got the itch to work on a journal or something, so I laid my drawing board on top of the sorted piles to work on. Since then, it has also become very cluttered with works in progress and assorted collage materials, leaving very little work space. On top of that, it is tilted, so that what I'm working on tends to try to slide off. It's a struggle to keep what I'm working on on there. No wonder I do all of my drawing/painting while sitting in my recliner with my necessary stuff on a stool beside me! Seems like I can't find the time for cleaning/organizing anymore. Every time I blink another week is gone!

I am still trying to sketch/paint some every day, and by the time we do our exercises, the day is gone, even when we get up earlier. But I have to do something about this mess!

Anyway, that's it for this post! Thanks for visiting! Take care of you!