So I was watching the news last night and learned that a frozen lake of water ice had been discovered on Mars.
Frozen Lake found on Mars
Well, this is the way my mind works.

We were caught in some heavy traffic this morning on the Santa Monica freeway, so I decided to try to draw some of the drivers in the passing cars. This might have been a foolhardy thing to do - people have been shot on our freeways for just being in the wrong place at the […]

This was a quick sketch of a man at an adjacent table, drawn today at “The Hat” (world famous pastrami) while my husband waited at the counter for our meal. The nice thing about drawing at The Hat is that there is abundant light and the people are usually so absorbed in eating and […]

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I was going to draw or paint something new for the challenge, but I remembered this Photoshop piece I had done several years ago, and it seemed too appropriate to pass up.
I’d like to be floating on a cool blue sea today - it’s horrendously hot here in So. Cal. How’s […]

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This peach was painted in watercolor in a book I bound myself. It was the first journal I ever tried binding, and although it is very flawed, I save it for paintings and drawings that have special sentimental meaning for me.
This little peach comes from a “volunteer” third generation tree. The […]

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This week’s Everyday Matters challenge is “draw something you’ve made.”
So here’s my humble offering in my earth mother aspect … a loaf of 9-grain bread … fresh from the oven. I bake the same way I cook - starting with a basic recipe and then improvising. The recipe is […]

We are drawing fruit this week for the Everyday Matters challenge and I’m trying to warm up to do something complex. This seemed like a good place to start, seeing as how I didn’t have a model handy and this is about as much as I can manage from memory. In the meantime, […]

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Yeah, I know it’s an old joke.
It’s Wednesday night for heavens sake. The thing’s due tomorrow.
If anyone did something on the same theme earlier in the week, my apologies. I haven’t had time to check the list out and I did not steal your idea. That would be, like, […]

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Our dear friend B invited us to an Academy screening of War of the Worlds this afternoon, which we happily accepted, knowing that the print would be pristine and that there wouldn’t be distractions from talking patrons and cell phones. We prepared to lose […]

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We have been drawing our feet this week on the Everyday Matters Yahoo Group. (And if you like to draw or want to draw or just like to hear people talk about drawing, I encourage you to join us.)
After two other ink attempts, one of which made me look […]