I am going sort of crazy trying to make art and run my business (www.pinkletinkbaby.com) and build sets for Peter and the Wolf and take care of my kids and get my garden in and do the household chores while my husband is away traveling for work.... and and and the list goes on and on and on!  Things are hectic to say the least and my head is spinning trying to keep track of it all. 

I actually did quite a bit of drawing last week, but I wasn't thrilled with any of it.  This drawing of my dog, Amy, in my sketchbook is the only one I was really totally happy with.

In other news my Peter and the Wolf poster is starting to pop up everywhere and it's cool to see it around town. I like seeing my showing up in places I don't expect to see it... that's pretty cool :)

On the road...

 

Last week I was traveling with my family and in-laws which is why no posts last week. Traveling and making art is a lot of fun, but tricky with kids. It got really difficult after illness set in for me and my oldest daughter (my younger daughters had the bug before we left and were on antibiotics for the first few days of the trip).  Taking care of sick kids while on vacation was rough and I didn't make too much progress in making art after the first few days. But here are a few things we saw along the way.  I discovered that it is possible to do small paintings in the car like the one below, but not to do tighter and more precise drawings as above.  For me, the movement of the car makes drawing difficult, but loose watercolor works quite well I thought.

This week I start work on rehabbing sets for Peter and the Wolf for Turning Pointe Dance Studio.  I already did the artwork for the poster for the performance, so hopefully the work to do the sets will go smoothly and they will come out well.  As soon as I have the finished poster available I will post it here, hopefully soon.