Creativity at work

A quick demonstration of how a few interesting lines can become an intricate doodle, or rather, a Zentangle.

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: The Beast in the House

  While my new knee, total knee replacement, is doing well (nice to remember what normal walking is!), the swelling in my leg hadn't gone down. So now i have a new diagnosis, lymphedema.
  It seems mine began in adolescence, about the time my legs changed from chubby child to serious thunder thighs.  But it hadn't gotten bad until the stress of the latest surgery.
This is my new lifelong buddy

Wordless Wednesday: Up to the Minute Art

The first picture shows the remains of Cabin Coffee's delicious scone, and a page of practice marks, which i made this morning.  The second is a red flower, with info in the caption.

This is the sort of thing our art club, Indy Decorative Artists, does.  We're meeting again next Monday, and the project is a fabric painted shirt.  For this one, our President, Donna Harcourt, led the group in an acrylic painting from an Angela Anderson design. Mine is interpreted in colored pencils, with the black attempted in various pastels and pastel pencils.  i finally decided that the charcoal pencil gave the best approach to what i was after.

Wordless Wednesday: Bridge of Character

This is in Danville, IN, on Cartersburg Road, just south on where Old and New US36 come together. 
  Today we came home via backroads.  i love not only the arches on this bridge, but the twining vegetation.

Wordless Wednesday: It's a Corgi!


i met some friends for lunch at Mooresville's Chicago Pizza. Since i was a little early, i visitedThe Village Trading Post next door for a few minutes. 
Thanks, Waynetta, for wielding my phone/camera!

Wordless Wednesday: New Toy

 i'm always picking up pencil sharpeners.  Even the best hand-held ones are pretty cheap, from about