Illustration Friday - Secret

It's no secret that I haven't posted in quite a while, I slipped down the rabbit hole. When I found myself watching a puppy-cam for a good portion of the afternoon I knew I had to get out of my rut and get back to the doodles that I love. So I assembled my supplies and tried to get back on my blog horse.

illustration friday - yield

Whenever I hear the word yield I always think of Henry V and King Harry's standoff with the french,
"What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?" 

We have that standoff everyday in the yard over the Wubba. I think the Wubba is the loser.

A Wrinkle in Time

 It is the 50th anniversary of one of my favorite books by Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time. Of course I still have my original copy and re-read it yesterday, still so good. Before I went to sleep I did a quick doodle of Meg and Fortinbras.

illustration friday - intention

I had every intention of posting everyday but we got busy doing other things.

that dog don't hunt

While I am the proud owner of two hunting dogs, the last thing they tracked down was the couch. While they are BIRD dogs this morning they decided they would be hounds and went after a big, fat, orange, tabby that was stalking birds in the brush. Blerg! I need to work on their recall because apparently it's nonexistent when there's a tasty cat around.

This little incident reminded me of when my neighbor was bragging about his yellow lab's hunting exploits. Apparently it's a big, big deal if a bird dog can retrieve two birds, who knew. So it was around the holidays when he stopped by to regale this amazing and heroic "double-retrieve" story. While he was telling the story all I could think of was, wow, my dog just stole our entire pumpkin pie off the counter and ate it.

Illustration Friday - capable

 Dogs are always cape-able as well as hat-able, scarf-able and shirt-able.

Here are a some photos of my dog models.

(no animals were hurt during these photo shoots just a little humiliated)

Fudge (one of my crazy fosters)

Ronan (allergy scratching prevention)

Kato (adventures in knitting)

Nadia (my dog-in-law)

doodle day

My backyard neighbor's dogs.

One barks incessantly while the other stands quietly by, so I call them Jay and Silent Bob. One day I hope to find out their real names.

Polly want to doodle all the day

It's that time again when the migrating birds blow through town. They are a raucous bunch, like tourist can be.

Illustration Friday - fluid

Kato seems to get more fluid on the floor than in his mouth.

doodle-a-day

winter is finally here

Wow a big arctic cold front came through last night, we're a little blue today.

illustration friday - pup-ularity

 

Kato is always trying to be the most popular dog in the house. He knows a good cup o'joe is a sure way to a girl's heart.

On another "pup-ular" note. Check out Mônica Carnesi's newly released children's book, "Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic." 

 It's a heart warming story illustrated with wonderful watercolours. Make sure you read it with a hot cup of cocoa and a big box of tissues.  

Congratulations to Mônica on this wonderful achievement!

Oodles of Doodles

 Catching up on my reading and found this gem in the Jan 29 NYT magazine, "The Art of the Doodle."

illustration friday - suspense

A quick doodle of the boys and I watching a suspenseful movie.

illustration friday - foward

I'm trying to teach Kato how to run with me...

illustration friday - twirl

A quick doodle, Kato practicing his twirling.

sad face

 

Here's a quick sketch of Ronan pleading with his eyes for me to turn the light out and go to sleep.  After a couple of ha-rumphs I did.

Illustration Friday - Prepare

Back from a long break. I've gathered up my supplies to "prepare" for a good year of doodling. I hope to get back on track and post regularly. Ended 2011 with a good streak which was only interrupted by the return of my husband. I've packed him off again to his home away from home and am ready to get back to it. I did this quick doodle of my supplies while Skype'ing with him. He likes to tease the dogs, they don't understand technology.

Wishing everyone a very merry happy!

The pups and I are wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Festivus, Merry Ludachristmas, Warm Solstice and a very Merry Happy!
We made it to Asheville for the pre-holiday festivities and beat Santa home on Christmas Eve to make our traditional Christmas Eve Enchiladas.
I got what I wanted under the tree, yes Gnomes (and my guy) hope y'all got what you were wishing for this holiday season!

illustration friday - separated

Since my hubby and I are always separated due to his job, we adopted our puppies so I could have someone to watch sad movies with (the kitty refused). Now they can't be separated from me because I've created velcro dogs, ack.