Instagram Sketchbook

I decided to start a separate Instagram to post only art - not personal photos and home stuff. Follow along if you feel so inclined. There will be some overlap I'm sure :) I've posted older art, and it's in no particular order - just to load it up and get started.

https://www.instagram.com/kb_gets_sketchy/

Christmas Eve morning doodle

when you can't sleep in - art

Grace

the local news station recently did a story on this photo. i haved loved it always. My grandmother had a copy and i bought this one at an auction shortly after were married and its hung in the same spot for 20+ years.

visitor

#❤️

 

a little art project... makes my heart happy 

Watercolor Video - just a little fun thinger i tried

Best feeling

so i get a text message last night, and it is a little tour of Mackenzie & Tyler's new apartment. And lo & behold, Mom made the wall :) THEN she posts it on social media, and my heart soars :) corny as it sounds...i love her encouragement and support of my art. It always seems to happen just when i need it most. Love you bug! thanks, as always ♥

Lovers gonna love

 

 

pinterest is an endless pool of inspiration... had to try this one for myself. I have some ideas for a 'series' of these. Those may or may not pop up on here ;)

In an OWLIE mood

 

 

 

I love to draw & "paint" on my iPad. LOVE it actually, but there is nothing that compares to pen & pencil and real paper.  

Christmas project

somewhere along the line, i ended up with a box of Emma Bade's silverware. Emma Bade is Kenny's grandmother... we live in the home she  and Albert built on the family farm, the farm that has been in the Bade family since 1859.  I have wanted to do something special with the silverware, beyond keeping it to myself and/or using it. So i came upon this idea, of painting a folk art scene of the Bade Barn on the Emma and Allie spoons, and then decorating them up cute for each of Kenny's siblings & one for each of their kids to have as a keepsake. Along with the spoons, i decorated a photo of the farm that i took and then embellished it with the Lutheran table prayer, in English and German.
I love that my daughter and her cousins all have a heartwarming sense of their heritage and ties to this farm, they are genuinely proud of it. Getting photos from the kids, of this gift hanging in their homes... it doesn't get any better than that.

 

 

 

scanned version of a previous posted doodle

doodle goes digital

a little ink doodle - scan - photshop

Watercolor butterfly on the iPad

Work in progress

weekend project at the lake

 

 an old board i found in the shed

iPad tweeter

Back to the lake, photo sessions wrapped up, time for some art!

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The plan