My latest commission

This is what I have been working on lately. I have found that it is quite tricky finding time to draw now that my children are home all day. I have made a few arrangements that have helped, but I definitely get more done during the school year.  That being said, I enjoyed drawing these four children. We have known them from before the oldest was born. In some ways that makes it harder because I keep saying, "no, that isn't quite them yet... no, I don't think the eyes are right.... hmmm... that one looks too old..." etc. I actually got on an artist website (wetcanvas.com) and posted one of the drawings to get some feedback.  It was incredibly helpful, so I plan to post more on that site in the future.  It helps to get other eyes looking at it, and I had about 10 people comment with suggestions.

As for the rest of the summer, I don't plan to do as much art.  I will still welcome commissions, but I may not start them until mid August. That could change and surprise me, but we have a lot of  plans coming up and I don't really want deadlines at the moment. I have one other commission that is lined up, but I also have some projects of my own I want to try.  There is a landscape I want to try drawing.  Now that I have done faces, landscapes seem easy.  I don't say that to downplay landscapes, it is just that if you make the branch of a tree go at a slightly different angle, it still looks like a tree.  If you make eyes go at the wrong angle, it looks like a Picasso.  :)

Maybe I will work on some quilts this summer and post them here, or maybe I will post photographs from our adventures. We shall see... when I started this blog, I planned on posting all of my creative outlets.  I haven't done that for awhile.