Travels to Boone

I went to Boone North Carolina for three weeks vacation. Again I thought I would sketch lots, but intentions as you know don’t always materialize into reality. We did take a lovely drive up to Beech Mountain (one of the highest points on the east coast) and went to Buckeye Lake. My DH was fishing so I tried out some colored pencils. I haven’t done many sketches with reflections so that is what I tried to get in perspective. The sketch is so-so but the Lake and afternoon were spectacular. On the back deck of the cabin where we stayed were table and chairs to enjoy the wonderful cool afternoons. I got a beautiful pot of posies so did try to draw those using colored markers. Done very fast. I didn't do the posies justice but there you have it...

Travels to San Diego

I went to San Diego for a mountain retreat up in the mountains around Julian. I was very busy, and had planned to sketch in the journal more, but for all my intentions I only made a few quick sketches. There were about fourteen women and we had great conversations, ceremonies, and hikes. We stayed at a lovely house with a fantastic view of the mountains.

The house, “Corgi’s Castle”, as we called it had a lovely vegetable garden.

One of the exercises we did was an art project. We wrote questions on the back side of the paper, mixed them up so we didn’t know which was which then started answering the questions with collage and paint. These are mine. And it was amazing how the art answered the correct question. Synchronicity!

The Sweat...

The Bee Goddess...