Messy blog;)

I've been doing lots of different things lately and somehow there's no time/energy/place (?) to post them on my blog. So this will probably become a bit messy and chaotic blog...time to show you all the real monkie;)

First my sketches for the Everyday Matters challenges:
#39: draw your toothbrush

#40: draw something with folds

For the next challenge (#41: draw a landmark of your city) I am looking for a nice place along the river to draw something of the industrial buildings or one of the bridges I see everyday. That's when I saw this:

This is a place in Holland, but the words are not so dutch... (something east european???). It's easy to make up some funny stories around this picture;)

November is a special month: it's NaNoJouMo!!! National Non-stop Journaling Month is a project by Dawn DeVries Sokol. (author of the book: Doodle diary, artjournaling for girls. My friend Caatje gave it to me as a present when she was visiting last SketchCrawl. I got the english version, but there's a dutch version too!! I really like it;))
But back to NaNoJouMo: There's a new prompt on a special blog each day in november. I liked the idea and decided to give it a try...

I am also doing a very early or very late spring cleaning ( I think a fall cleaning is much more logical, cause after living more outside than inside in the summer, my house really is a mess now;)). There are piles of magazines waiting for me to do something with them. Most of the time I don't know why I kept them. Collage is not my thing, but looking trough all those magazines with the beautiful photos and illustrations...I had to do something with them:) So NaNoJouMO will be my collage workout. My rule will be: use at least one photo/illustration/word from a magazine...

My collages have always been a little bit of a frustration for me. I have lots of photos and lots of drawings, but its always two separate things. And when I try to get them together on a page or even in the same book, I really don't like the result....
(suggestions for a good workshop are welcome;))

And of course I made some more doodles...my ugly family is getting bigger!

Also tried monoprinting. I like doing this stuff, but again: don't what to use it for or how to integrate it with my drawings of photos....

Bob was really happy with the nice comments on the previous blogpost and asked for a raise...I bought him some more toys (he had just killed his favorite in a month: pretty cool for a 17+ year old cat he?)

IncrediCat & Uglies

I've got a new toy and poor Bob is playing photomodel again... I've told him he has to work to earn his food;)

And finally had some time to doodle & doodle some more....

Mini Sketchcrawl

Today we went back to our beautifull sketchcrawl location (sketchcrawl 22/10 at the windmill in gouda). This time we didn't have to organize and actually had time to just relax and draw together;)

(I'm blaming the wind for all the crooked horizons and the leaning towers, yeah right;))

(happy and tired home again;))

Silly Saturday Scavenger Hunt

(scavenger hunter)

One of the last worksheets of the Art of Silliness workshop was the Silly Saturday Scavenger Hunt. It took me allmost a week to complete it (but hey: I did also did help organize the sketchcrawl...)

First: draw three one-liners from your garden, drawing of a leaf using your wrong hand, a quick sketch of a sleeping pet and line drawing of a plant using your dominant hand

Next: turn a sidewalk crack into an animal, one-liner of a vacuumcleaner from your imagination and one-liner of a vacuumcleaner while looking at it. (and I had a silly inspiration thing and 'invented' a vacuumcleaner on wind energy;))

Draw 5 negative shapes you see when walking outside. The first three were done on a visit to Rotterdam. I really thought the ship and the bridge would be easy...silly me;)

Draw your own shadow. By the time I was ready for this one...no sunshine;( And I tried to make a good shadow with a lamp but didn't like that... Lucky for me I had a very good photo of my shadow!!

Draw five things that catch your eye. Searching for something to catch my eye, I was walking around in the garden and noticed that some plants in the garden thought it was summer (fruit) and some already thought it was winter...

Draw a blind contour of a car, bicycle and banana

Draw a quick sketch of your house

Quick drawing of your face while looking at the mirror (grrr...why this one carla? ;))

all together... wow busy week!!!

Sketchcrawl Gouda

Had a wonderfull day yesterday!! We had two wonderfull locations: in a windmill and inside the house of Heleen (with a great view at the park and the mill). Thanx to Loes it was another well organised sketchcrawl!!!

here's some of my drawings (yes, I made some!!)

 semi-blind contour drawing

scribble&contour drawing



drawing the mill with the 'wrong' hand

and surprise, surprise: I took some photos...(video editing is not my specialty, sorry!)

(you can visit our blog here and our group on flickr here)

and I am sure my friend Caatje will post some of her drawings and photos on her blog too;)