Warped Selfies

One of the things that me and the kids love to do when we are bored is to take the digital camera and catch pics of each other with the strange lenses that warp reality.  We've come up with a few great moments.  I noticed while flipping through the sketchbook, that I hadn't posted a couple of the sketches that I did of two pics that we took and laughed at repeatedly.  One is a selfie of me...the other of my daughter.  I'll let you decide which is which.

A couple of other quickies that I haven't posted yet....

I noticed that I had a couple of other entries from the past month that I haven't posted yet from my sketchbook.  Enjoy.....

Recently, I listened again to a talk given by Elder Holland to the members of my church a little while ago.  It was particularly timely, since people seem to so quickly freak out when things don't go exactly the way that they would like.  I sketched this one while listening to that talk....

I knocked this out shortly after arriving in Arizona a couple of months ago, and recognizing a noted temperature change from whence I came....

This one was done a few weeks ago after going to the Desert Botanical Garden...fell in love with this little flower growing next to a cactus.

Bird on a Wire

Father's Day is tomorrow, and I spent my day lounging around with the brush and pen in hand.....best Father's Day present ever...just to be able to paint, listening to music, without any other worries for a few hours:

Number 18

I knocked out EDM 18 today in between an oil change and a car wash while knocking out my chores.  The challenge:  draw the scene from your window...

Back to the E.D.M. Challenges

Now that I'm in a new city, waiting for my family to join me, I have all this free time at night and realize I could fill it with doodling once more.  So, to get the juices flowing, I've returned to the E.D.M. Challenge list and will continue where I left off.  Here is Challenge 17 "draw a musical instrument."  Drew it doing laundry and painted it up after supper tonight.

A little more action on the can.

A couple of months ago I painted a face on a can but got bored with it.  Last night after the mandatory games, stuffing of face with finger foods, and the post feeding sugar buzz, I chose to put some clothes on that little lady and turn her into a gypsy.

Here she is fully clothed:

Can-tastic!

Wow, it has been a while since I posted last.  Christmas time has come around, and a few days ago I started itching to do some more Nativity work on cans.  So, I flattened a few, attached them, and worked on them in my free time over the past couple of days.  It was fun to do this combination, and I enjoyed the idea of turning something that is discarded into something with meaning.  There is probably a gospel principle in there somewhere...the fact that there is a force, a power out there which overlooks our used, broken state, and sees what we can become.  If we let it, we can be transformed into something unexpected, valuable...insofar as we reflect the individual who paints the transformation...