Sketchbook #3

Good morning and welcome to the beginning of a new week!  If you're a new reader, let me start off by saying WELCOME!  I'm so grateful to have you here and I can't wait to meet you all!

Today I wanted to share with you one of my completed sketchbook pages!  I've gotten behind on posting them, and while I was working on my insect drawings, which you can find here, my sketchbook got put on hold.  But this weekend I finally pulled it out again and got to spend several pretty days on my porch just sketching!

Tomorrow Vlad and I will venture down to Florida to spend the week on the sandy beaches in the warm sunshine!  I can't wait!  I've never been to the Miami area and never really went on a classic spring break trip during college, so I'm beyond excited for this vacation!  Be looking for some amazing posts when I get back to the Carolinas, because I've already got my camera ready!

Please don't forget to enter into the giveaway below, (on the last post) there's a big chance you could win!  The giveaway will close tomorrow at noon, so go check out Jennifer's blog here and comment on the blog post here to enter and that gorgeous print could be all yours!

Sketchbook #2

Moments.

          There are some people, few people, who have the gift of being able to say exactly what they mean at exactly the right moment.  While I can find beautiful words and string them together like crystal beads on a silver chain, my timing is inevitably wrong.  I find now that life is full of moments.  We don't remember our life as a timeline simply flowing together in perfect sequence, but rather as hundreds of moments that we piece together in a order of cause and effect.  There are moments that I can barely breathe, either from searing pain straight from the soul or from absolute to the sky bliss.  But the breaths that bring the moments of healing are in clarity of self, when I realize exactly what I have in front of me, what I have left behind, and what I love the most.  Moments of balance between reality and  ideals, between head and heart, and between what could be and what will be, are the moments of insight.  There are things in this life that I want above anything else, people I love so much it hurts, and moments that balance those two realities that make me who I am and help me become who I want to be.  This is my balance, my insight, and my challenge to be a better person to have moments where I can say exactly what I mean at exactly the right moment.

Sketchbook #1

          Sometimes the only thing that relaxes me is losing myself in the pages of my sketchbook and just letting the next move, the next line, and the next shape take over.  

          So here's the first completed page of my new book!