Creative Challenges

 For Illustration Friday challenge totem....+ for 29 faces challenge face #4.

to·tem  

A natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.

In my garden the little birds would be my choice of totem animal; they are very busy enjoying the sunflowers that are going to seed. 

 In bloom this week

With a totem visitor!

Which do you prefer?

Face Posting #2

Watercolour face #2 second day of 29.....

great exercise.

Faces 29 in September?

 Sketches of faces: stretching artistically....between stretching physically sanding floors. I will post a picture of the finished room prior to cluttering it up! Going to try for the 29 faces in September even though I have started almost 1/2 way through, good exercise.

White Cosmos

Joy to be painting & gardening and a weeks holiday :)

Hidden Within

Hidden within; cabbage moths, if only they did good works instead of laying eggs and hatching into insatiable worms....

Feels great to be painting something other than living room walls, we are almost there, walls painted, floors sanded just the smelly floor finish to go down. The end is in sight :)

Flower Power

Quick sketch, loose watercolour + pastel, flower power.

Trio of Lilies

More lilies from the garden.

Hybrid Lilies Ode to Summer

The lilies are all in bloom all at once. The fragrance is amazing as well as all that pollen! For Illustration Friday, Paint Party Friday and Sunday Sketches.

Its a Jungle out there

Its a jungle out there...or in my garden. Wildness is taking over + the garden

Jungle for illustration Friday challenge + Sunday Sketches + Artists in Blogland + Creative Everyday + Inspiration Ave. Several challenges that I have missed for several weeks. I need the discipline of creating every week! Life gets busy but I miss pushing myself to complete and share something each week. Thank you to all of these sites and the creative souls whose positive energy keeps them flowing!

Garden/House excuses.....

 

Gardening like mad, cutting flowers for the local market + road side stand + working full time.....Not so much time for painting. We have also started painting our living room (white over dark wood) I am speckled! Very stinky primer.

 Our days are filled with watering & weeding but also with starting to eat from the garden not all flowers.

 The sweet peas have hit 7 feet tall fronted by lilies starting to open.

 Growing some yard long beans as well.

 First of the tomatoes

Cosmos and sunflowers just getting going. In the birdhouse lots of activity.

I'm very grateful for a deer fence this year what a difference!

So I am wishing for painting time....but for now it is mostly of the house painting variety! I am so thankful to have a house to paint though it be old and always in need of something fixing :)