sketchwars has been revived! sister and i are going to choose a room each week in our houses and sketch something from that room. we’re still going to include portraits every now and then. and whatever else blows our skirts up.
sometimes when i’m thinking of what to sketch i never think to look around moss cottage – everything is so familiar. like this view of an old street sign hanging crookedly from my bathroom doorway. i have looked at it a bazillion times. the drawing is crude, but full of life for me. i drew it from my bedroom with the sun blazing in through the window.
the loo – another room of the house i don’t often photograph. seemed like a good subject for a sketch. and the light flooding the room was so pleasing.
while the sketchbook was drying i turned off my sketching brain and turned on my free-range brain. color shape pattern galore. something broke loose and wanted to roam. so i said yes.
go go go go go go go
squee!
and then i made and ate this sandwich.
black forest bacon, cave aged vermont cheddar cheese, ripe tomatoes, lettuce, and mayo on these voluptuous rolls. which, if i’m being honest, is going to be what i make for lunch all week.
because i said.
oh yeah and i meant to mention that i love those cheapy michaels craft paints too. thanks to you and pam for introducing me to them, i love the colors and that they don’t dry sticky and of course the price tag!
ahh this post was a feast for my eyes! i love love the paint palette pic. you should submit it to somerset studio, they have new photo challenges and one of them is to photograph your paint palette.
also can i say how happy i am that you are home again and blogging daily. i love love getting my daily dose of mary ann, you make me smile and hum with creative thoughts of my own.
If I still ate meat, I would eat that sandwich in a heartbeat!
I love all the colors in your post.
I love that you get along well enough with your sister to live with her. I love my sister, but I’m afraid we’d kill each other. We’re just too different.
I just wanted to give you a quick “thank you” for inspiring me to book an adorable little cottage in Ireland for my upcoming vacation instead of staying in a ho-hum hotel. I would have never even thought of being adventurous enough to do that had it not been for you and your blog! It looks like the cutest little thing in the photos so I’m looking forward to seeing it in person…even has a cute little stream next to it…oh, and it’s “moss” covered!
Sketchwars sounds like so much fun! I can’t help but admit that I like the toilet.
Your toilet is a work of art! Is it really red and white? And is that a custom French fry holder hanging off the lid? You have the coolest accessories in your hacienda. I dare you to sketch those forgotten corners…I once poked my vacuum hose under an unfinished cupboard in my kitchen and sucked out a mummified rat….EEEEEEEEKKKKKK.
I love these! You amaze me, Mary Ann. 🙂
OMG….that sandwich! Oh, I wish.
I just wanted to say I love love love your ideas about sketching your house interiors! Especially the loo. Why not! May I steal this idea for my private sketchbook?
Thanks for giving me the courage to sit down and do what needs to be done! I’ve been drawing all sorts of things. My hubby says my “perspective” isn’t right but why should I listen to him. Right?
Sketches are awesome fun!, loo is a stitch for me. 🙂 I think you captured it’s natural aesthetic quite nicely LOL. Who knew the loo could be so profound LOL. I love it when you and your brain let loose. Free range brain, every artist needs one of those and must remind one’s self to keep it handy at all times. 🙂
Love those sketches.
oh my gosh I need to go buy new colors of craft paint, that palette is wonderful, and those drawings from different rooms in your cottage are great, I can’t wait to see more. Tasty looking sandwich, YUM 🙂
Sister! Did you encounter any troglodytes when you went down into the cheese cave to retrieve the cheddar?
I am loving that huge journal you made… might have to make myself one too! Oh well, after I devour a sandwich or three (yummo)!!
And your looking around your home for things to sketch makes me think of this quote by Proust which I have always loved: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
WHAT is Black Forest bacon? I know Black Forest ham is supposed to a fairly smoky ham, is the bacon extra smoky? mmmmm bacon
Re: the matte paints, are they in tube or bottle form, water soluble I would suppose (?)
A visual feast for those of us not lucky enough to sit down with you in Moss Cottage and share that sandwich! Yikes, that looks soooooooooo goooooooooooood. Almost as good as the sketches!
hi leslie,
those matte paints are the $1.50 cheapest paints from Michaels. craft paint. LOVE IT!!!!!! a friend of mine turned me on to it a couple of years ago and i really really love it for visual journal work. dries fast and isnt sticky.
Love the room sketches…brilliant idea and that sandwich looks tasty.
Hehehehe…sketching toilets….oh, my. Am laughing here. Seriously. Your kind of sharing is the best kind. No pseudo-psycho kinda over-sharing babble…just cut right to sketching the camode. Gotta love it. You are awesome.
Gee, the sandwich looks as yummy as the sketching an the visual journal squee.
I think you’ve become my life coach, LOL!
Erin in Morro Bay
Sketchwars!!! I actually like the chair one.
Love the viney painting. What are those chalky looking paints on the pallet?