A New Challenge

 

Life is not just the passing of time. 

Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

It's hard to believe Christmas is right around the corner. Time just keeps going faster and as I sort and declutter I am reminded of life passing -- it's been a good one and I expect that to continue.

My latest challenge is evolving into the season, my favorite holiday.  What I started is a 30 Day Challenge, doing a drawing in the Stillman & Birn Beta Series sketchbook my husband gave me for Christmas last year.  The one above is one, here are a couple more...

 

Eventually the drawings evolved into faces.  I had been watching a Toni Burt video and tried doing one the way she did.  Since the normal sorting and purging is going on in the studio I happened to be going through many old sketchbooks and realized I had been doing faces like that for a very long time and the line she added around her drawings was the same that I had used to outline handwritten quotes many years ago.  I felt better about doing the angels once I realized I wasn't just copying Toni. 

 

Eventually the faces evolved into angels.  As Christmas approaches our card may be an angel. I've been a collector of them since I was a young girl but don't think I ever did one for a card.

  

So far I've only done watercolor with some collage in the sketchbook.  My new mantra -- "This may not work but...." I'm going to try a mixed media angel.  So far layers of collage papers, gesso and modeling past and an angel sketched on all of that.  We shall see where this leads.