Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur. Happy St. Paddy's Day!

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

illustration friday - stir

 

Who knew you needed your thumbs so much. It's even hard to stir things now that I cut off my thumb. I have terrible arthritis in my other thumb and my fingers claim they can't work under these thumbless conditions.

illustration friday - warning

Warning! Knives are sharp! (thanks for the safety tip Egon). So glad my husband comes back today! He's been gone awhile and he's the cook in the family (my speciality is cereal) I tried to make something the other night and chopped of the end of my thumb. Never again! My mother sent me a chain-mail glove, ha, ha so funny mom. Just call me stubby.

illustration friday - swarm

It's getting a little s'warm in here after layering on these sweaters. 
(I was a slightly influenced by the previous fridays' topics.)

illustration friday - layer

 

Now that Kato has learned how to high five, we're onto the next layer of training, making my morning coffee.

illustration friday - sweater

Okay I promised myself all new doodles this year but I've already failed. I'm in the weeds with work so am in a time crunch. Here's my kitty modeling one of my sweaters that my husband so thoughtfully washed and dried. His response... "but sheep don't shrink when they get wet" 

illustration friday - reverse

If I could reverse time I would give my kitty a big hug.

I did this quick doodle right before I went to sleep last night and was missing my kitty, even though I had dog breath sleeping next to me (umm that would be one of my dogs not my husband). (yawn) I think I need some coffee now.

illustration friday - surrender

Arg, I couldn't think of anything so this is what I doodled. Don't know why I was thinking of pirates. Maybe because I just heard this joke:
What did the boy pirate say to the girl pirate when he was breaking up with her?
"We'll always have parrots"

illustration friday - dusty

 

Putting the dogs to work...cough, cough...it's getting a bit dusty here.

illustration friday - chicken

My big black dog is such a chicken.

more sketchbook...

illustration friday - deja vu

deja vu - this is what I wake up to every morning, 
boy do I miss the gentle tapping of my kitten's paw,
even though eventually she would shove a claw up my nostril. 

this was my first attempt, can't believe I did two, my patience is getting better
too bad my perspective isn't, but working on it.

laughing dogs

 

It must have been a good cat joke.

sketchbook project - finished!

Just under the wire I finally finished my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project, yay! 

While it turned out to be just a book of my doodles, like all my other sketchbooks, I hope people will enjoy my childish, like, childlike style. 

My topic was "Raining Dogs and Cats" which I took liberty with and changed to "Reigning Cat and (2) Dogs"

Here are some pages

illustration friday - resolution

 

I resolve to post all NEW doodles in 2011.
Here's an oldie but a goodie. 
(doh, I resolve to start next week to post all new doodles.)

Happy New Year Everyone!

More snow...

SNOW!!!

illustration friday - snow (oops winter)

Snowflakes are all so unique.

illustration friday - mail

 

Kato helping me get the holiday cards out.

visitor

 

 I had to post this, I was just visited at my studio window by a ruby-crowned kinglet. He is too cute. It's like he has a little red toupee on!

 

illustration friday - phenomenon

I love the magical phenomenon of snow. 

Since my hubby just made it home for the holidays (yay) and won't be here long, I don't have time to draw anything so Kato did this week's IF for me.

redecorating

 Either Kato doesn't like my taste in christmas decorations or he thinks they're very tasty.

they draw & cook

While I don't really cook I do know how to assemble and this is a tasty little coffee drink which I submitted to this wonderful Web site They Draw & Cook

illustration friday - prehistoric

Kato's new prehistoric toy. (can something be new and prehistoric?)

goldie locks or big bad wolf?

Who's sleeping in my bed? Could it be a pie-stealing pup sleeping it off? Such a bad dog!

illustration friday - savour

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, we did except for one thing, NO PIE! Lesson learned, never leave a pie alone and vulnerable on the counter. We thought our little, chunky monkey lab had been rehabbed of his counter surfing sadly he had a major relapse and SAVOURED every last crumb. No pie for me :(

a few sketchbook project pages

I needed some help getting started so I took a couple of lines from t.s. eliot's "the wasteland" as inspiration.

illustration friday - afterwards

 

We're wondering what happens in the "afterwards" 

(box is kitten's ashes, making her an urn is on my list of to-do's)

Ack my first attempt of doodling after more than a month off. Pretty bad but at least it's a new one, yay. I need to get back into the groove as I have an entire sketchbook to fill for the Sketchbook Project.

illustration friday - spent

I'm SPENT after the move and a week away at a conference. Finally got the kitten's ashes so she's back in the fold and I'm waiting for my first haunting.

illustration friday - spooky

 Okay, while I confess I have found most of my studio supplies after the move, except my darn graphite crayons, I'm submitting another oldie but goodie. I just can't bring myself to doodle anything without my kitty sleeping behind me as lumbar support. Maybe she'll start haunting me then I can really channel something spooky.

retro day

VH1 - Kittens - Karma Chameleon (2003) - 0:30 (USA)

VH1 - Kittens - Who Am I (What's My Name)? (2003) - 0:30 (USA)

I'm feeling a bit nostalgic so I'm posting these old VH1 promos just for kicks.

illustration friday - transportation

 I'm still unpacking and haven't found my art supplies yet so here is a recycled doodle.

enough with the paparazzi, gimme that camera!

Thought I'd post one of the rare pictures I have of my kitty, she didn't like the paparazzi much.

illustration friday - beneath

 

Longing for the dry skies of San Diego, it has rained every day since we moved to NC. We discovered we have an indoor pool in our new house called, the basement. Where fortunately we were storing all the unpacked boxes, mostly filled with books, now pulp. Yay!  (old illo until I find my paints)

Here's a poem by Lewis Carroll as we say goodbye to summer. 

A BOAT beneath a Sunny Sky

by Lewis Carroll

  

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,

Lingering onward dreamily

In an evening of July —

Children three that nestle near,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Pleased a simple tale to hear —

Long has paled that sunny sky:

Echoes fade and memories die:

Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —

Lingering in the golden gleam —

Life, what is it but a dream?