Let Your Light Shine

Matthew 5:16 Let you light, in the wake of the fires this seamed like an appropriate image to do. This was done with colored pencils dry pastels and a white gel pen.

Rising from the Ashes

Needing a ray of hope while the wild fires were raging around us and needing a distraction from constantly scanning the news and internet for information I decided to do a bible page. I decided to do a Phoenix rising from the ashes symbolizing the strength and determanation that our community has. It has been a horrible time here but clean up and repair is already happening and we will rebuild and stand strong. Sonoma Strong!

I used colored pencils, white gel pen and dry pastels.

Isaiah 43:2 When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you,

Starbucks Fall Cups #3

The last 2 of the 4 seasons I put on my Starbucks Fall Cups. Summer was done all in a black Micron pen and a white gel pen done in pointillism.  My spring cup had tulips and it had color added into it with colored pencils. I also used Pencil, a black Micron and white gel pen. All for are now on display at one of our local Starbucks.

Northern California Firestorm

      I haven't been on here for a bit because I have been sitting right in the middle of some of the worst firestorm ever here in the wine country. 42 people have died and 27 are still missing. Thousands of homes and building have burned down and over 200,000 acres have burned. We were lucky and never had to leave, we only had an advisory evacuation as did my mom however we were seperated by the fires. She had to make many trips in to town for Chemo. The fires are almost all out, the last 4, the Tubbs,  Nunns,  Atlas and Pocket fires are all at 97% now. Driving through town now it looks like a war zone. It is very sad. We are trying to get back to normal but it is tuff in the wake of this. I have a few new posts I will work on putting up in the next few days. After the first day or 2 you would go in the grocery store and row after row would be all empty, it was eerie. Whole neighborhoods are just gone.

Starbucks Fall Cups #2

    Well I finished my second cup and I am pleased with it but I think my first one,  the scarecrow came out better.  I used the same supplies on this one,  black fine tip felt tip pen,  2 different hardness of pencils,  black colored pencil and a white gel pen.  The base of the snow globe proved to be more challenging then I expected, I think because it was a curved surface. The lettering wasn't the best(again the curved surface made it hard)  but it actually came out better then I expected. If you do one of these cups though as I said in my last post the colored section is a bit waxy which makes it really hard to use a pen on,  the pencils work much better there.