Rozsa Loves Her Red Boots

 A while back I drew this Hungarian girl in traditional Hungarian folk clothes.  Here she is making another appearance, this time in red boots.  I suppose since I have drawn her twice she deserves a name and I decided on Rozsa, which means Rose in Hungarian and is a name that is near & dear to me.  I'm looking forward to her next outfit!

colored pencil and pen on paper

More Hungarian folk art doodles...this while watching the Olympics.

pen & ink on paper

Midsummer Night's Dream, Hungarian folk art style

Trying a new link up today. Although I love Illustration Fridays, it pushes me to try new things in coming up with art that matches the prompt every week...and I have loved participating in Creative Tuesdays these last two weeks for the same reason, I find myself spending all my time making art to share at those sights and not for my own pleasure. I decided to participate in Sunday Sketches today so that I could link up anything. No themes or topics...yay!

This is colored pencil on an old book page.  Please excuse the wrinkles, I took the page outside to photograph in the bright sun and the morning breeze tried to take it away!

Hello Monday

It's Monday after a great weekend. 

Friday night I finally checked out some wine tasting rooms on the Urban Wine Trail in Santa Barbara. Saturday we spent all day at the pool with a bunch of friends, it finally felt like summer around here! Sunday was lazier but we managed to be productive (some of us more than others!)

Hello to this Hungarian folk art design I've been wanting to draw on an old book page for a long time and finally sat down to do it yesterday.  Inspired by this felt version on Pinterest.

Hello Oberon who is 11 weeks old today and got his next round of shots.  One step closer to the beach!  I can't wait.

Hello Io, mischief maker.

Hello to burning onions. 
No it's not a mistake, it's the first step to making the best beans EVER which will be our meatless Monday meal tonight.  
Try the recipe yourself and let me know what you think.

Hello beautiful orchids

Hello new fence husband was working on all weekend.  New dog, new fence.

I'm linking up with Lisa Leonard again, if you are visting me via Lisa's blog please say hello!

Kauai Journal Pages Round Up

I finally scanned more of the pages from my Kauai journal pages, my first attempt at keeping an artsy travel journal from my vacation last month...I'm also linking up with Lisa Leonard.  Hello Monday.  I'm ready for a new week of puppy adventures, creativity and positive attitudes!

My first ever drawing on an airplane.

View at the pool

Sunset, see better view here

Hanalei Bay #1 - watercolor & watercolor pencils

Hanalei Bay #2 - colored pencils this time

Lighthouse at Kilauea

See more pages here, here and here

New Birdies

 

Above - some new colored pencil drawings of birdies from the past few days.
Below - a page from my travel journal, birds of Kauai.

 

 These were photographed but I hate how you can see the shadows from the light in the room...obviously need to work on my photos.

Illustration Friday - Sight

Rozsa, in traditional Hungarian folk clothing, was mesmerized by the sight of the giant butterfly.  Colored pencil and acrylic ink. Inspired by the book Tarka Lepke, which I have had for about 35 years.

Illustration Friday - Kernel

watercolor and acrylic on paper

I double checked the definition of "kernel" and a sunflower seed definitely qualifies!  I've had sunflowers on the brain since last week's topic "hitched" (although I ended up with something else entirely.)  We had sunflowers as centerpieces at our wedding...I'm glad I could get it out of my system this week.

"cross stitched" sunflowers. pencil on paper

And here's a little teaser...check these guys out...6 days old

Illustration Friday - Grounded

Grounded was not an easy word for me to wrap my head around.  I just didn't feel like producing anything that said "grounded" in any of it meanings, in any medium...until I was in yoga today and was looking at the tree mural on the wall behind me (it was upside down since I was in camel pose) and I wondered for the 27th time why there is a mural of a tree on the wall of an otherwise plain studio.  Then it hit me...the two things that make me feel most grounded are nature and yoga.  So here it is...my version of the yoga tree.  I often wonder what's in the hole...a wise old owl, perhaps?

colored pencil in paper

A Christmas Tree

Something new I did today (thanks Maggie!)  Colored pencil on paper.  A little rough around the edges but I like it a lot.