The main purpose of this blog is for Becca (heading to London) to study and myself (staying in New London, MN) to post a drawing a day. In addition, we will also be posting photos of paintings, travels, adventures, friends or other tidbits of info. Since we will be creating our art in two different 'Londons' an ocean away from each other, our blog is titled. . .

'A Drawing a Day, an Ocean Away'

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010

I'm Back At It!



Hi Becca!

Thanks for all the drawings and photos of you trip! I love them all!!!! I'm so jealous! Sorry I haven't been posting for a while - I've been busy with other things, but am back at it again. I will post more drawing in a day or two. I have a (secret) art related project I'm working on right now which I need to focus on. I will tell you about it in a couple of weeks.

There have been a couple fun art-related events I've been involved with in the last couple of weeks. The first one is 'Fish Gone Wild.' The Spicer Beautification Committee is having 20 artist decorate and paint fish to set out in Spicer next summer. My name was drawn to paint a fish. It should be fun. I am going to change the shape of the fish and do something funky to it. Here is a picture:


They had a kick-off celebration to hand out the fish. They also had minnows swimming in glass vases and fish shaped cookies. You can check out more photos from this event at the new Willmar Area Arts Blog.

I went to Marshall on a day trip with some of the other WAAC board members. We checked their gallery and visited with the Marshall Art Center board members. We had a fun day. Here are some pictures. You can see more pictures from that event at our blog too.


We also visited Greta at the SMAHC office.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Travels!

Hi Violet!
Here are some of the things I drew while on my break from school and work.  We traveled all over.  First to Madrid, then Barcelona and finally to Rome!  It was an amazing vacation!  Now I am back in London.  Today was a beautiful sunny day here, but it looks like the temps in Minnesota were actually warmer than they were here today!  I took advantage of the sun and went for a long bike ride!  I also went to Mass at St. Paul's Cathedral.  I've been going to church there quite a bit, it's different but good (not to mention beautiful!)  Hope all is well!

Millenium Bridge

View from my hostel in Rome!

Sistine Chapel!

yup. that is a palm tree!

Barcelona Shore

Abstract Pineapple?

Picasso's Guernica