2011- 12 sketchbook project

This is my 2011 sketchbook . My theme was HOPE.

Happy New Year everyone

Sending you all very warm, happy and peaceful wishes for the new year. I hope you all grow in your art efforts  and get out of your boxes and play .
love robin

Merry Christmas everyone

HI just a short note to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas . I hope to update with photos before the end of the year . I do have a few things on my ESTY shop . Link on the right side bar . Been having some health and car issues  so I havent been here in a while .
 have a great holiday season
love
Robin

I am still around

Its been a wild month or so . One of my dogs had 5 puppies,one of my goats had a baby girl .Another one of my dogs got bit by a copperhead snake 3 times and we thought we would lose her . She is doing great now .Plus my computer crashed . My 700.00 laptop I am very PO about this .  please be careful when windows does those dam updates . If they don't go in right they will crash and kill your hard drive . So now i need a new  hard drive . Did you ever wonder WHY windows has so amny updates ? doesn't say much about the quality of there product . photo's of art work to come in a few days .
robin

Thoughts of the day ....

I have been busy with my farm stuff and haven't done much art lately. Plus its been 100 degrees almost every day . We are cooking here .LOLOL  Some one asked me the other day why I do art and I told them I would have to think about that . Art for me  takes on many directions . I mostly do art as a stress reliever. I can escape my real world crap and go into my art world , I can escape all the days bull shit and disappear in to another world . I also do art as a way of expressing myself . For years I was a tole painter and just found that art form  after a while it became boring . If you know what I mean .  So when I quit doing it it was a changing event in my life . Art gives me the confidence and security with in myself to know that I am important  to me . I hate to see women give up so much of themselves for other people. Everyone need a place to go to feel good about themselves and in turn  it makes them better people for there family's . I have to admit when I don't get to do art I am a BITCH!!!!. LOLOLOL  I hope that at the end of my life I will be remembered as an artist who inspired others to be artist. To make time for themselves to be important to themselves . Well all for now . I have some gardening to do and my silly goats need to get out and play for a while .

I have been busy....

"EXPLORE" Is done on a board using paper dolls I brought form "Paper Whimsy"
http://www.paperwhimsy.com     Paper Whimsy

This one is done on a board with the Paper whimsy paper dolls  called "PLAY"

This is another journal page. I got these paper dolls at Paper Whimsy. She sells them on digi sheets . I wanted to keep them together so i did a journal page with some of them called "Everyday ".

This is a page in my art journal called 'fly with the best ". My dear friend Terry gave me this beautiful piece of paper. It was stunning so i decided to use just it for a page

This is a Gothic arch I did for the group on roses

This is a paper doll for the "roses on my table" paper doll swap in a garden theme called "MISS ROSY"

This  done on a canvas and it is called "In Spring"

sketchbook project 2011 tour photos

My good friend Terry was lucky enough to go the the sketchbook 2011 tour that was in San Francisco, CALF. and check out all the books including ours . I was thrilled she got to go and then she set me these photos . Thank Terry  so much !

Everyone sitting and looking thur books

My wonderful friend Terry Davis holding our books at the show .