Janeys Journey

Little Drawings

These 3 drawings have been added to my etsy shop.  They're all about 5"x7" on cream colored journal paper, colored with sharpies.

Chinaberry Pots

 

Walla Walla Wicker

 

Polka Dots and Daisies

Coming Home

This is Bandit and he finally has a home.  My friend dbd is fostering this little guy - all 16 lbs of him.  And it's a forever foster because little Bandit isn't going anywhere if dbd has anything to say about it.  He's had a rough time of it.  He's 8 yrs old, several different homes, some health issues and he just had 6 teeth pulled.  But now he has a home.

I went by yesterday to see how he was doing and he's sooo cute and sooo scared.  All these new smells.  But there he was, following dbd around the house, he was just stuck to her like glue.  Just the way Gertie follows me around.

So expect to see lots of woofis drawings here.  Gertie is my muse but she sleeps all the time and isn't a very cooperative model.  But Bandit, well he's walking and peeing and pooping and walking and I'm going to be drawing him yes I am.

Mama fox

Someone I work with lives in Boyton, a few towns over from here.  Her husband is building an extension to their house.  One fine morning they spotted a mama fox and her cubs.  They'd taken up residence in under some wooden planks.  What to do?  Why wait until mama fox decided it was too darn crowded and moved away.

My All

I like to draw things at odd angles - people and cats and just about anything.  So lacking a live model (Gertie is hiding under the bed, she's not in the mood I guess), I choose All.  No inspiration?  Just draw what's in front of you.

 

To be..

Another scanable

I'm doing these before I go to work.  Been too tired for much after work.  I started at the gym yesterday.  I felt like such a wimp which I am of course. 

And I'm trying to think about the borders, creating designs within the negative space so it's part of the drawing - like the nude top right.  It's new.  I don't really put much thought in the drawings, I just draw them.  The pen in hand does what it wants.  It's almost like automatic drawing, a new genre.  Not sure how I would color it though. 

Scanables 2

As soon as I have some time, some of these will be watercolored and added to my shop - the Animal Crackers section.  For now just terrible photos.

Another Kinder Pix

This has to be postmarked 2/15 to be included in the show.  I don't know if I'll make the deadline but I'm definitely going to finish the little moleskin.  It will be the first time I've actually drawn more then a page or 2 in a journal let alone finished one.  And that's me in plaid suspenders.

Scanables

Waiting to be.

 

We're having our once a year freeze.  I know once a year isn't much to complain about but it's cold.  Gertie wouldn't go out to litter on the patio last night so I brought it in.  Geez what's all the fur for anyway.

PS 61

Here's a double spread.  I'm drawing in pencil first which I don't do often.  I don't want to mess up this little moleskin.  The paper is sooo thin that when I tried to eras the pencil, the paper wrinkled.  Maybe I'll leave the pencil marks in.  And I think I won't color, another maybe.  After all, it was a black and white era.