New Supplies
Artistically speaking, it's been a slow week. There was a birthday and outings and eye doctor appointments and, as such, less art practice. But that is just the nature of life and if I find I have had a week in which I was less able to pick up my art supplies or my needle and thread as often as I would have liked, that just means I'll focus on the week to come. Needless to say I did not fulfill my goal of creating a drawing from reference every day. What I did do was purchase a few items to play around with. Firstly, I bought a couple of containers of beads to add to some of my embroidery pieces. The last piece I finished, a colorful planet surrounded by a ring of beads, was hopefully the first piece in a little space-themed series, and I liked using the beads so much I wanted to continue to incorporate them into my designs. I also bought a set of Prismacolor colored pencils because the only pencils we have in the house are Crayola. Indeed, thinking about it, I'm pretty s...