Washington County Fair - Michelle age 17

Michelle's drawing (charcoal and color-pencil on black paper) of The Wolf took a First Place and also Best of Show!! Congrats Michelle. :)

Washington County Fair - Sahana age 8

Hidden images with color-pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint
Family Outing (Momma, Baby, and Papa holding toy) Hidden images with color-pencil on canvas sprayed with watercolor paint
The Aquarium

Color-pencil Still Life

Getting Thirsty

Colored pencil floral
Sahana's Rose

Sahana's artwork - she is 8 years old

Washington County Fair - Rishitha age 8

Hidden image in colored pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint

Girl with Doll having Tea Party
Hidden image in colored pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint
The Sheep in the Forest

Ink painting - landscape
The Orange House

Artwork created by Rishitha who is age 8

Washington County Fair artwork - Dhrithi age 6

Hidden image with color-pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint

Cute Baby Dragon
Hidden image in color-pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint
Little Pig with Balloons

Ink painting of flower
The Clematis

Color pencil work
Self Portrait

Dhrithi is age 6 and loves to do artwork. Here are her images.

Washington County Fair - Aishu age 8

Landscape in ink

The Red Bench

Hidden image found with colored pencil on canvas sprayed with watercolor paint

The American Idol (girl with microphone)
Hidden image found with colored pencil on canvas sprayed with watercolor paint
The Dragon

Still Life in color-pencil

Colored Pencil - animal
The Colorful Bird

Washington County Fair artwork entered, and or created by Aishu. She was 7 when she completed the colorful bird and then had a birthday so she was 8 when she completed the others.

Washington County Fair - Adithi age 7

The images of the artwork here are all done by Adithi who is age 7

Found image outlined with color-pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint

The Bunnies
Found image outlined with color-pencil on canvas sprayed & poured with watercolor paint
Undersea World (2 mermaids, an octopus, squid, 2 jellies)

Ink painting - landscape
Red House on the Hill

Color-pencil drawing
Little Girl in the Red Heart Dress

Color-pencil drawing
Blue Rose

Color Pencil Drawing
Giraffe with Flower

Several of my Art Students entered their work in the Washington County Fair Competition. Out of 4o we entered we placed in 36 - that is AWESOME! Here are some of the artwork. These students are age 6, 7, 8, 9 and 17. Congratulations kids!

Busy-ness with Busi-ness

As I am an artist, photographer, and art instructor (plus full time Mom/Grandma and wife, homemaker, house administrator, bill payer, tax preparer, house cleaner/organizer - and so many other things - you get the idea) I am super BUSY! I seldom have quiet moments. I want a hot tub but I wonder if I would even get to have a quiet moment in it. I want to read but when I begin a book I really want to read I have a child who comes in and climbs onto my lap or sits on my back for pony rides, so that giggles and laughs are the norm for the day. I want to make Scrap-pages but when I sit at the computer there are a ton of things that need to be done first and by the time I have completed all tasks at my desk I am too tired mentally to be as creative as I'd like to be.
I have many, very many, pieces of artwork that I either need to complete or to begin (thoughts rolling around in my head are striving to be heard and to get out artistically). I have been teaching so many classes this summer that I have set all of my own work aside. When I do get it out I find I must put it back away to set up for class. This summer I taught classes 7 days a week and several of those days I had 3 classes back to back. It was exhausting, exhilarating, stressful, uplifting, and it was fabulous. And it was so worth it :)
Several of my students entered artwork in the Washington County Fair. Out of 40 entries we were awarded placement in 36 or them. Awesome! I am so proud of them! I will be posting some photos in the next post :). In the meantime - I'm taking a breather LOL

ADSR Season 6 Challenges 11 through 15

Continuing through the challenges we come to challenge 11 is a recipe, challenge 12 Whatever, a week in the life of. Challenge 13 is about accidental family, Challenge 14 is My Dopplegangers. And finally Challenge 15 is My Digi Family :)

Now I wonder what Season 7 will bring....

ADSR Season 6 Challenges 8 through 10

I am trying to catch up on my posts and have decided I don't have time right now to explain each challenge and give the proper credits on the kits. But I hope to do better in the future. Right now I just need to get the pages showing so my family and friends can see them :).

Challenge 8 was about What family means. I made two pages for this challenge. Page 9 is something I inherited, again I made two pages. Page 10 is Our Family :)

ADSR Season 6 challenges 3 through 7

All of the challenges this season were, in fact, challenging. Page 3 is about something our family does for fun, page 4 is taking a trip, page 5 is my Dream Day, page 6 is a get well card, page 7 is Family Garden - I did 2 versions.

ADSR Season 6

Had a lot of fun with the challenges this season! Hope you like the pages :)

ADSR Season 5

The last of the ADSR5 season pages completed. Had a fun season and moved on to Season 6 :)

Time Out

It seems I have taken a long time out. Sometimes we just need some time off and as life has handed me some lemons, as well as some sweetness, I am busy making lemonade. I am going to attempt to add some updates and see how far I get.