A bit of stitching and a bit of sketching

Back to painting with the Tuesday Painters group.  We visited a lovely garden,  That's Glenda on the left and off to the right in red is Sandy.

 As you can see there are woods, I loved this blue spruce that doesn't look blue in the photo.  Not so happy with the result but I've been doing more stitching than sketching so this is a good reminder... get back to it.

I do tend to work faster than the rest of the group for a variety of reasons... the main one one being... for me it's a sketch, doesn't have to be perfect. So, two down and still more time so I did a pen sketch of what I think is lambs ear.  I may add the color or I may stitch it, we shall see.

Back to stitching, I finished the France strip, the last one duplicates another replica of a tile from the Pope's bedroom floor in Avignon.

And another addiction... at least that is what I learned it can be.  Jane Davies introduced me to making your own coloring book pages.  I thought it would be a good way for my Creativity students to play with color without coloring a picture.  It would give them more reason to experiment.  So I did one, then another, and another and before I knew it I had 8 9x12 sheets of paper done.  I kept finishing them and then would have to start another so I could demonstrate how I started and where I went from there.  No coloring done for me but I do like doing the black and white doodle.  It's a large size zentangle but the zentangle is more pattern, this is looser and more to my liking. 

This one is a start, I'll add more when I demonstrate for my class