Monday, January 07, 2013

One a day...


Over the decades I have been involved with many artistic endeavors...from a sewing/jewlery business... to selling paintings... to calligraphy...even  to illustration on buttons.  (Sold several hundred to button collectors all over the world.) 




With a background in graphics and fine arts and sewing skills learned in early childhood, I like to apply my creative process to many things.  You know about the  doll making...like art dolls...




carved some Hitty dolls, made a LOT of cloth dolls,
needle felted gnomes and monkeys 
and other such creatures....

 




Collages and paper art galore...

 


 all manners of books from teeny-tiny....


...books from tags



 ...books from bags!


to full sized altered books...


The past few years I have been drawing whimsical little figures. Occasionally they show up in this blog like uninvited but welcome guests making cameo appearances!


Have notebooks filled with them going back for many years...and I have been drawing one a day for a few weeks since about November. My goal is to draw one every day this year.  If accomplished...imagine!  That would be 365 new drawings at the end of the year!I They won't all appear on line....but here is one for you today!

I don't like resolutions...preferring goals that might be attainable.  (As in "don't bite off more that you can chew!) Like getting the laundry done today...or some other chore that is do-able. It leads to a feeling of accomplishment and doesn't allow much regret if it doesn't get done!  Do you have any short term goals or projects? If you do, I love to hear about them to stay motivated.

 

As always,

enjoy the day!


3 comments:

Simply Shelley said...

As I have said before...you do have talent...very creative indeed. Looking forward to seeing more of your little drawings...blessings

AngelMc said...

Oh Helen, you are such an amazing artist. I'm so very glad to have gotten to know you.

Vintage Fairy Tales Rebecka said...

Wow Helen, you are amazing!
AND your creativity has such an air of friendliness<3
The monkeys have stolen my heart!
XX
Becky