Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Muse Monday / Inspire Me Thursday: Watercolor

Muse Monday is taking a short intermission - not much going on in the way of progress re: my new space and next Monday is Labor Day so it will return the following Monday - hopefully I'll have some great news to report that we're finally making headway. I do have a how-to organizational project that I'm working on - a great solution to having all my tools displayed neatly and within easy reach, hint: involves pegboard but not in the traditional sense. What I have in mind is way more cooler and decorative than the sheet the guys hang up in the garage!! :) Stay tuned!

Busy week coming up so I wanted to get some quick journal entries done in my moleskine with watercolors and colored pencils. I like using watercolors in my moleskine because the wonderfully creamy paper (I love my moleskines!) resists them initially so you have time to work them before they settle in.

I find myself lingering over the last bits of summer before it fades away and have been savoring my garden's final offerings - flower designs have been on my mind and showing up in my doodles and sketches. I generally don't write a lot in my journals (I'm working on that, it's hard for me to do) but I did write all over the background very subtley in white ink on the single flower pages, a bit of a breakthrough for me :)

Have a great week and wherever you are, I hope the sun is shining on you.

"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." -- Kahlil Gibran

7 comments:

titration said...

This totally made me happy. The first one especially. Hmmm. I've never worked with moleskin. May have to check it out.

Deb G said...

These are beautiful. I especially like the second one.

Anna Lloyd said...

Lovely watercolours!

Sherri B. said...

These are so delicate and lovely...they make me smile. Thank you for sharing!

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Susan Tuttle said...

These flowers are gorgeous--I especially like the second one--what a cool design!

I can't wait to see what you do with the pegboard!!

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Susan
xo

valerie walsh said...

i am so loving these! you should make these into cards, calendars and lots of things, maybe t-shirts? LOVE LOVE LOVE!