Paint Palette - Ombré Sky

  sources: photo is mine, canvas texture, photoshop paint brushes

The clouds outside my window were amazing this morning, so I took a picture and thought it would make a great color palette post. I especially like how the sky has an ombré effect to it, so I did that with the colors as well. 

The photo kind of reminds me of these ombré tights, which I think are pretty fantastic.

Ombré tights

What do you think? Are you a fan of the ombré trend?

Merry Tuesday

The day got away from me yesterday and I didn't get a chance to post my "Merry Monday" quote.  So here it is a day late. This quote is by Mother Teresa and I think it's a lovely one. 


I hope someone has kind words for you today :0)

Weekly Pics

I'm looking forward to golf and Easter this weekend. I hope your weekend is full of fun stuff also! Happy Friday!

Illustration Friday - Return

This is my entry for this weeks Illustration Friday topic "Return." I had a hard time with this topic, there's just too many options! I ended up thinking of the phrase "return to your roots," and this is what came to mind.

Now that I'm done with it I'm thinking I should have added some grass on the ground. I think there's too much brown. What do you think?

Next week my goal is to have my illustration done before Thursday!

Doodle Book

Laura from Diary Sketches posted how to make your own doodle notebook awhile back, and I thought I'd give it a shot. 

I hand stitched mine together instead of stapling it cause it was kind of thick. It was also pretty hard to sew, but it helped to wiggle the needle back and forth when trying to get through all of the layers. 

I used Canson Mixed Media paper in case I wanted to do some light watercoloring inside. It's supposed to handle wet media anyways, but you can see the paper wrinkled a bit on the cover where I painted it. 

The tape I used on the spine is hot pink duck-tape (so fun!) and some of my washi tape. 

I wrote "make more mistakes" to encourage me to use it, and not worry about "mistakes." 

Head on over to Laura's blog to check out the instructions (which are illustrated!)

April Calendar Background

Here is April's background for your computer! Better late than never :0) 

Download here:

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I hope you enjoy it!

Merry Monday

Still working on getting looser with my watercolor paintings without it looking sloppy. Not sure if I'm making much progress yet. Also, it's harder to get the "looser" ones to scan properly. 


I'll just have to keep after it :0)


Happy April! 


*This is another quote that was hard to find the source of, I believe it's Richard Dumb.