Saturday activities

Window cleaning, washing dishes, doing laundry, going through some very old books and stuff to see what can go into the dustbin.
I thought there would be some hard cover books from which I could remove the covers to re-use them for painting, but actually there were only one (physics) and two tiny Watchtower books.
I cut off the covers from all of them. Sure it is a sin to destroy a Watchtower book, isn't it?

Anyway I did some doodling on the first cover.



There was an embossed title on it. Something like "Is the Bible telling the truth" or so. It showed up through the paints so I glued some paper over it. Looks a little strange.
Not a big problem because the whole painting looks strange.
However it was fun.

Birds

More animals to show.
I've had quite some parakeets over the years and I'm going to paint every of them for remembrance.
I'm still two behind.

This is a watercolor of my beloved Felix.


And this is Trudchen. Acrylic paints.



One of my parakeets was looking amazingly ugly. Unfortunately I don't have a very good photo of him, so I'm not sure if I will ever paint his portrait.
Look at this photo where he is taking a nap *lol*
Yes, he's still alive in this photo!

Black lab

Made these for a friend some time ago.

The first is from pencil and charcoal.



Next is a watercolor from the same dog.


A good frame really makes a difference!

My cat

These are two drawings of my cat Charly who passed away a long, long time ago.
It broke my heart that you were leaving way to young my furry friend.

This is an ATC I sent to a friend. I made it by using Derwent Drawing pencils.


After the ATC turned out pretty good I made this larger portrait.



I actually was surprised and totally blown away how much the dark background helped to complete the drawings. I never was good in drawing with colored pencils but these two were so much fun!

New start

Hi!
I started this blog some time ago but never actually posted something.
The reason for creating the blog was that some bloggers don't allow anonymous comments in their blogs. I couldn't comment without having a Google account.
I will continue blogging about all textile related crafts in my other blog. See link above.

This blog will be used for posting paintings and drawings that I'm doing from time to time.
It's rather meant for myself but if you like to view my humble art - enjoy!

I'm starting with a page from my sketchbook.