gratitude

 As mentioned yesterday, I am making a thank you card. I actually made two and one is already in the mail. One for the fellow I mentioned yesterday from Real Life Trading and one for his girlfriend (for something completely different) from The Limitless Creator. 

I feel the hands turned out much better in round two than they did in the first go. Once I added the highlights I knew it was complete.

For the other one, I made another chakra tree. Chakra trees in my mind are about our chakra centres growing (and opening). I felt it was very appropriate for her.

I thought initially to send one card for both of them then chose to make two cards since I wanted each card to fit the person who was receiving it.

I am very happy with both of them. I have been using "photo corners" when I make cards now so that if anyone wants to frame the piece of art, they can remove it easily.
I am now off to mail the second card! (And yes, it is still snowing here.)

early winter

As always, winter seems to come early in this neck of the woods. I was asking around as to why I live here and no responses as to "why", just comments on the weather in other parts of the country. This poor leaf was frozen on my car yesterday. I quite like the image.

Aside from that. I have been drawing a bit again. I seem to take breaks then start again. So prior to the snow, I picked up a leaf so I could draw it. I did it twice. Once with my ink pen and one with graphite. 

Even though they are uploaded in the other order on Flickr, I did this one first. 

Then I did this one about a week later. I generally like the graphite drawings more than the ink drawings. 

I also  painted a card for a friend of mine for her birthday and I completely forgot to take a photo of it. I did another dandelion water colour card for her. Yes, the wrong season! She said that she liked it. I probaly finished it in about 15 minutes. I can be fast with water colours, granted it does depends on what I am painting. 

I am also making another card; this time a thank you card for someone who did something I did NOT expect. He is basically the helping hand for many people in this trading community I am a part of (Real Life Trading). I won't get into what he did for me; I just want him to know how grateful I am. 

Here is round one of the drawing I am doing. 

I am working on another one because I feel the hand on the top coming down in this drawing is too narrow. The other one is on that toned grey sketch paper too. I will work on it again tonight and see how it turns out. So far it does look more to scale. I will post once it's finished.