Miami Beach Sketchbook completed!

Another sketchbook complete for the Brooklyn Art Library!This one is about my time in Miami Beach. (My last sketchbook was about Portsmouth).   I tried incorporating more color (via colored pencils).  I like how it came out. Of course it's filled with my favorite places and things in Miami Beach.  It's a bit smaller than the Portsmouth book so I had to edit it down a bit.  I could have filled it with so much more.

Here it is:

There's always a push to finish towards the deadline and it's usually bittersweet to part with it. Since this is my second one, it was a bit easier...just a teeny bit. Starting in April 2012 it will tour the World! See if it's coming to your city or country here. Let me know what you think too!

Ram Dass

Our new apartment space has inspired a new series for our walls.  I'm moving some old art out and decided to make a three part series on people who have and still do inspire Tommy and I on a spiritual level.  I finished the first piece of Ram Dass. I listened to several of his talks while I carved/etched the paper and I was so excited to make this I did it all with a dull blade. ha. my fingers were numb for a week, but it was worth it.  I've got fresh blades for the next two pieces.  hooray.

 
close up

Christmas sketchy

I know this post is a little late being that it is after Christmas, but I still wanted to share this Chritsmas Sketchy I did for Sketchy Miami.  I wanted to do more but we were in the middle of moving to a new apartment.  The dust is starting to settle in our new place and I'm getting inspired to make new art! yay.
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas :-)

Here is the Christmas sketch of Daniel Ortiz:

Color edition Halloween Sketchys

  
                                                              Korin Bukowski
  
   Rachel Tuckerman   
 
Todd Cervini

 
Geoffrey S Shideler

I made a special color edition of Halloween Sketchys.  I just may include these in the raffle prize at the next Sketchy Miami Halloween Party on October 29th!   I have a special drawing in mind that I'll be working on in the next couple days that I am excited about...stay tuned.

Halloween Sketchys!

Brian Butler
 Elizabet Chacon
 
Amelia Arce
 Sisco Perez

Here are some fun Halloween sketches I drew for Sketchy Miami.   I really had fun making these –  The Halloween theme really made me get creative.;)

New Sketchy Miami sketches

After a vacation, running a half marathon in Colorado, and having company over for a week...I'm back to the drawing table.  Here's a few more sketches I did yesterday.  It feels good to be drawing again.  Didn't think I'd miss it, but once I started and finished one, I did two more, all in one sitting!

 
Adriana l

 
Katya Bravo

 
Melissa M

Sketchy Miami Party #2 August 12th 2011

 A bucket full of colored pencils...heaven!
 All those beautiful colors
 Getting settled at my drawing table. holding up the postcard of my drawing :-)
 Getting warmed up. Tommy practicing drawing me ;-)
 Cuqui (pronounced cookie) was my first and fabulous sketch of the night.
 Cuqui is an art lover who promotes the Bird Road Art District  which has an art walk every third Saturday of the month.  I plan to visit this weekend. yay
 Lots of sketching happening.
Lucinda Linderman and Karla Caprali
 sketching in progress
 more progress
 done.  This is Renee.
 Tommy and Hannibal make some sketches of their own :-)
Geishel
 
There were lots of wonderful photographers whizzing around everywhere. 
 These gorgeous picture are from Tomas Loewy
more from him here

These two pictures are from Soul of Miami
Over 1000 people came to the party. Fun was had by all.
More write ups and blog posts about the party here, here and here.

Sketchy Miami Party tonight!

I'm excited to meet lots of new people tonight at the second Sketch Miami party.  So far over 800 people have RSVP'd.  I'll be doing live sketches with a few other artists.  Should be a great time. And of course, I'll be posting lots of pictures tomorrow :-)

I moved to Miami Beach!

Well my hubby and I are in Miami Beach!  Living here.  It was a pretty easy move since all of our stuff went to storage.  We're in a furnished place while we explore the area and find a spot to call our own. In the mean time, thanks to a new awesome Miami Beach friend, I've discovered a project called Sketchy Miami.  How cute is that?  The idea is to draw a portrait of everyone in Miami.  If you live in Miami upload a picture and a local artist will sketch you. If you're a local artist, pick a picture to sketch and upload it.  They have sketchy parties as well.  So much fun!  We are encouraged to sketch people we don't already know to promote mingling. I plan on sketching a few portraits. Here's my first one, her name is Kayla...

SPACE gallery sketchbook tour

The Sketchbook tour continues in Portland Maine at the SPACE Gallery.   I reunited with my sketchbook and explored many other books once more.
 This book by Jade Chang in Taiwan has been traveling right next to mine while on tour.   It's beautiful!
 So. much. talent.  It almost takes my breath away how much goodness is oozing from these pages.
 Some more of my favorites were from Mette Hornung Rankin of Portland, OR and Mary Anne Lloyd  of Portland, ME.
 Yes, I was having a floppy, humidity overload, mopey hair day.
 While we were at SPACE Gallery I got a text that someone had checkout my book! (we found out later by the staff, that was a first).  Seeing other people looking at my book was exciting and a little scary for a second.  Haley and her mom both made their own book too.
 We stopped for lunch at my favorite veg restaurant Green Elephant.  We even had the same waiter and table as the last time we were there six months ago.
 Panang Curry vegetable with tempeh and Chinese Broccoli with soy fillet was our wonderful lunch. yum, yum and yum!  And a special rare treat of chocolate orange pie for dessert.
 
 Back to the gallery to see Haley and Mary Jo's sketchbooks our newest sketchbook friends.  Oh so cute!
 My favorite pages from Haley's book.  She is such a doll.
 And from Mary Jo's book...I can feel the magic from this pic.
Gotta love a mama that supports creativity!
 
 The man behind the genius software of the library and such...Shane.
Other geniuses behind the scenes that make this possible.
  
                                            So much fun.
Next up for the sketchbooks is Atlanta, GA

new sketches

I've already started to fill up one of my new sketchbooks I bought in Brooklyn.  Here's the evidence...

I get excited once a new book has been broken in.  Sometimes it can be a lot of pressure to mark that first page of a new book.  I usually skip the first few pages, but this time I started right on the front cover!  surprised myself.  Think about a time you've surprised yourself and remember that next time you're facing a 'blank page'.