I’ve just resurrected the old sketchbook I used for my first drawing class, in 1998. I thought I’d post some of those old drawings over the next couple of posts.
pencil on paper
pencil on paper
pencil bouquet
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pastel on paper – mom's pitcher After a wonderful Easter service on Sunday, I drove north with to spend a couple of days with family in Pennsylvania. (actually, since I hurt my back a couple of weeks ago I rode while my sister chauffeured and my brother-in-law drove my car.) My sister’s youngest son has been calling lately telling me I [...]
I might try to convince you to love these little Elke Brenning Seefeldt ceramic buildings as much as I do. There’s just something about their earthen twistiness. They make me think of Dr Suess and Lithuanian folk art and fairy tales and when I spy them in their usual spots [...] A few years ago one of my New Year’s Resolutions was ‘Ask for what you want.’ I had realized that in some areas of my life I am too hesitant even to voice my own desires – a sure way never to achieve them. The experiences I had that year with that phrase echoing in [...] Here is a sketch of a castle I visited a couple of times when I was a missionary in Lithuania. Again I was in my sketchbook with watercolor paper. This time the texture worked for me instead of against me. I wanted to imply rather than rigidly describe the red bricks that are the main [...] |
 
Becky's bookshelf: read
I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...
I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...
 
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