Home Improvement Projects

Something a little different today… sharing an ongoing home project… 26 years ago we purchased our home… a 1930 California bungalow cottage with craftsman built-in characteristics… soooo charming… 18 years ago we either needed to move to a larger home or add-on to our home… an addition was my plan from the beginning… hubby thought we’d move… I talked him into my way of thinking to stay in our neighborhood which I adored… fast forward… we love our home and garden and we are still making improvements… such as painting all of our exterior doors black (originally only our front door was black)…

Love the way these French doors turned out… and though not photographed, the interior side of the doors are black as well… soooo happy… 

Anddddd this is the last door to be painted… I’m hoping hubby does it next weekend…

Not sure what hubby will work on next… maybe baseboards… maybe my black and white harlequin patterned tile entry and hallway… or something else we have on our to do list…

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Sketchbook: BOLD color!

More sketchbook entries… lots of colored pencil used to show BOLD VIBRANT color with soothing color washes… WOW to subtle… Two before and after… simple sketch to full color…

NOW… on to another sketchbook challenge: complete a work of art within 20 minutes… will post that a little later… see you then!

Sketchbook and Challenges

I’ve been very busy playing in my sketchbook (from the MOCA) lately…

This was a challenge…

Here is the photo prompt…

This is a REVISIT… REDO… LOVE the NEW but SAME coffee cup in the garden…

This is the original… I was challenging myself to a limited palette for Coffee Cup in Garden and I believe it was a BIG FAIL…

This art success and oops was part of an old challenge and here is the photo…

Besides challenging myself, this was the start of a 20 minute for 20 days challenge… it said challenge yourself… it said paint anything and then I saw that a lot of people were painting the same pot with a single flower… so I did that too with my limited palette. I think the pot was better with the colors than the coffee cup adventure…

Moving forward… I will not limit my palette… it was frustrating and not a happy experiment.