IrelandBrady - Musings To Ponder

The Celebrate Oz Blog Party is now just around three weeks away!  If you would like to join in on the fun, fly away to Oma Linda's ...

I was visiting my Mom the other day and as I was leaving she handed me a part of a page from "The Hayden Island Yacht Club Roster...

I am now working my way around the structure of water splashes ... this first one is of a stone being tossed in a pond, you can vaguely see...

I had time to work on two more little ACEO Water Droplets ACEO's today .... "Water Droplets In Black" "...

I'm beginning work on a new drawing, as yet untitled.  Thought I'd share this work in progress with you since I am again trying new...

I just finished another colored pencil "painting" which I have aptly named "Dance Recital Diva".  This time I have also...

Yesterday I thought I had finished and, as usual, I placed the piece on a small easel on our coffee table.  Every so often I look at it and...

Ended up I needed to take a day away before I could complete this illustration.  Basically, I applied about 7 or 8 layers of various shades...

Day Six started off slow, I visited with internet friends, got caught up on some correspondence; put a ham bone with trimmings in a pot wit...

It's hard to believe that this is Day Five!  Today I basically worked on the hair color; first I applied several layers of different sh...

Today I remembered that I should have started with the background first (whoops!), so I switched over to that area of the picture and began...

On Day Three I added some more shadowing to the face, colored in the eyes, added lashes and eye brows and began working on the hair.  I hav...

Our two youngest grandchildren spent the night and I didn't get much work completed on the piece as I would have liked,   I did manage ...

Well now, I think I am ready to begin a new colored pencil drawing using the techniques I am learning from "Colored Pencil Painting Bi...

I finished my little girl today and I must say, overall, I am very pleased with the results.  Today I worked on the wood couch arm and th...

"Zentangle Inspired Number Eight"

This is another colored pencil study of a Strawberry.    The original background did not turn out well at all ... so an "India Ink...

Zentangle Number Five is now available in my Etsy Shop as an ACEO (2.5" x 3.5") and as an 8" x 10" authorized art pr...

Well, since we already have a Raggedy Ann it would seem appropriate that we include a Raggedy Andy!  Now, in our household .... no one want...

As an accompaniment to my Zentangle Inspired Alphabet Series, I recently completed the Zentangle Numeral/Number Series.  The number series ...