Art….AKA Getting My Creative Side ON!

I recently read the book “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” and there was a quote in there that really resonated w. me:

“People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.”

So…in efforts to not become more of a menace to society 🙂 and to have some fun ‘me’ time I have started back up in an old hobby of mine. Drawing. Might even do some watercolors, we shall see.  I set up a part of my office as a drawing station and even set up an area where the boys can color and draw as well. Charlie and Ethan love hanging out w. me and drawing. Its so sweet! I might take Charlie out sometime to draw some trees sometime soon!

Here are some of the sketches and drawings I have done over the last couple of weeks. Nothing fancy, mostly just sketches of photos and wildflowers I found on our walks at the forest preserve.

Pencil drawing of Queen Anne’s Lace

Wild berry branch in colored pencil

Black Eyed Susan in colored pencil

Clover in colored pencil

I have no idea what kinda plant this is…but it has been drawn!

Doodling the flowers in ink

OK I was gonna put in some sketches I did from some photos of the kids…but yeah..they are NOT good enough to post!

One of the Joys of Boys

 

 

One of the things I love most about having boys is the flowers. My oldest, Charlie, loves making lil bouquets. Sometimes its dandelions, sometimes one of each while we are on our walk. If he sees a different flower he will study it and make sure it has different colors and shapes from all his other ones before adding it to his fistful. This one was made especially for First Grandma, which is what he calls my mom (because he met her first he says). He has a lot of grandmas to differentiate from!   My next in line, Ethan AKA Bacon, is starting to pick wildflowers as well. He is always copying what his big brother is doing. They are just ridiculously cute and proud of their offerings to the ladies they revere.  And we ladies all love getting flowers!