The Year of Doing Nothing

I've been in Hawai'i over a year, and I feel like I've done nothing all year. I made a few little items here and there, sewed some clothes for my sister, but I haven't done any drawing (not much, anyway). I'm hoping this will be followed by the Year of Doing Much...I'd like to design and sew some clothes, do a lot of drawing, some printmaking, maybe some painting and papermaking, make jewelry and beadwork, and a lot of other things.
After working at a job for 3 years before I moved back to Hawai'i, where I had to do a lot of stuff all day, I felt like my creative juices were being depleted. At home I didn't have the time or energy to do much. Now I have no excuse, since my main job is to stay at home with my mother, do the grocery shopping and some cooking, take my mom out for her errands, and generally be a housewife (bizarre!).
There will be some big changes soon (stay tuned) and I'm hoping to find inspiration in the changes and my surroundings. Plus I have got to get really serious about making money from my art - online or wherever. If any of my readers has suggestions about how to promote my art online, I'd love to hear it. If anyone would like to be my agent, I'd like that too.

Same Subject, Different Media

After posting the drawing of the pot with the draped cloth, I realized that a watercolor version has been sitting in the living room for nearly a year. So here it is. This one is 6" x 4".

Little Drawing

This little colored pencil drawing is about 4 x 5.5 inches, done on a scrap of mat board. I think it's about 20 years old, but I did several versions. Sometimes I like to do the same drawing over and over just to see what variations will occur.

Poppy Shadow

This is from a series of flowers I did in pastel. They were about 24"x30", and I discovered working on these that I did not like to work big. I prefer doing small works. But I do love this image.

My Favorite Etchings

Miss Otis Regrets
Pears In Snow
After all these years, these are still my favorites. I think they must be at least 20 years old; I've printed them in different colors, sold a fair amount of them, and "Miss Otis" won a few printmaking and small works awards. They are about the size of playing cards, the results of some experimenting I was doing with open-bite etching.

Autumn

Woman in a Veil

Scribble

These remind me of the handwriting exercises I had to do in Catholic School when we were learning to write in script.

Girl in a Hat Redux

A fashion drawing done in Illustrator, inspired by the sketch below.

Girl in a Hat