Butterflies

One of my other hobbies is photography, but I haven't been doing much of it the last few years. A couple weeks ago I visited the new butterfly pavilion in Scottsdale - Butterfly Wonderland - and it was awesome! I'm still sorting through my pictures - I took over 500 shots and most of them are out of focus or only have part of a butterfly or were taken a second after the dang thing flew away. As my Dad would say, good thing film is cheap!

Anyway, here are a few that I've sorted and processed. I don't do a lot of post-processing so what I saw is what you get!

Butterfly 2 by Angie Wallace

Butterfly 8 by Angie Wallace

Butterfly 13 by Angie Wallace

Butterfly 26 by Angie Wallace

Butterfly 45 by Angie Wallace

Catching up...

Actually I wonder if I'll ever catch up... I have been working on stuff and even finishing stuff, just not very quickly... and then I never seem to take the time to sit down and scan stuff in... So here's a glob of things I've finished over the last month. I have two larger projects started, but I'm not ready to post them yet.

This first one was is just random barber polls. Messing around with color.

Barber by Angie Wallace

This one was going to be a diva challenge submission... Used random pens that I had in my art drawer. Turned out ok I think.

Primary by Angie Wallace

This one I did during a conference call at work. Just used a ballpoint pen, so it's officially just a doodle.

Squiggles by Angie Wallace

This one I really like. I haven't done a lot where I didn't try to fill the whole page so my aim was to just stick to one side of my string.

Borderline by Angie Wallace

That's all for now... and hopefully someday I'll get my act together and start posting stuff when it's actually done.

Too long

It's been too long since I've posted anything. I'd like to say that I've been extremely busy, but the truth is that sometimes I go through phases of absolute laziness and extreme lack of motivation. Over the last month, I have actually finished a few doodles and even finally finished a quilt I just didn't take the time to sit down and write and get it posted. So without further ado...

Knot - by Angie Wallace

Scribbles - by Angie Wallace

?? - by Angie Wallace

Growth - by Angie Wallace

Flow - by Angie Wallace

Most of these were just simple doodles, messing around, trying new patterns, etc. The last one is my favorite though. I had started out thinking that I would fill the string with as many overlapping lines as possible, but then this emerged and I like it much better than what I had in mind.

Hearts Afloat, Hearts on Fire

Now that things have calmed down from the move, I actually had time to doodle this week. I've been wanting to try a Zendala so I decided to combine The Bright Owls' Zendala Dare (#62) with the Diva Challenge (#124) this week. And I accidentally did the Diva's #123 as well.

The Diva challenge this week was an open challenge with disaster's in mind. When I started drawing I was thinking about the flooding of the Diva's hometown, but also of my two home states of Colorado and Arizona that have multiple fires burning. With that in mind and the zendala template this just popped into my head.

Hearts Afloat, Hearts on Fire - by Angie Wallace

I used micron pens and watercolor pencils (not on watercolor paper, so it's a little warped).

Busy but getting back to normal

The last couple weeks have been a bit crazy. We moved across town which isn't nearly as hectic as moving to another state, but still almost as exhausting. Life is starting to get back to normal though... almost everything is unpacked and I'm finding myself with small piles of random stuff that needs a home. I'll get there eventually.

In any case, with as crazy as it's been I haven't drawn so much as a dot or a line for over two weeks. I still wanted to put up a couple things though. So here are a couple of favorites from last year. Enjoy!

Car Rides Are Bumpy - by Angie Wallace

A Splash of Color - by Angie Wallace

Stripes - by Angie Wallace

Bluebird on a Wire

I am moving. I hate moving. I hate packing. I'm one of those overly organized people who wants every space in a box filled, but I want it all to be from the same area - like not mixing knick knacks from the living room with dishes from the kitchen. I know, that's totally unrealistic, but unfortunately that's how my brain works. Thankfully my awesome hubby started packing non-essentials months ago so we don't have a ton left to do, but that also means we're down to packing boxes of random stuff. Ugh. At any rate, it will be over soon. By the end of the week we should be happily settled into our new digs on the other side of town.

Anywho... in the midst of all this chaos I realized that although I finished one piece for the diva challenge last week I never got to do a second one and never submitted anything. Oops. So the first (and accidentally last) tangle that I did, I loved until I finished it. I started on the outside of the circle and worked my way in and I absolutely hate the center. Other than that, I like the way this one turned out, especially the third layer in. I had planned to do a second piece, but obviously got distracted. In any case, here is what I would've submitted.

Bluebird on a wire - by Angie Wallace

Something different

Since I've been in the world of doodling, occasionally some random idea will creep into my head and most of the time I write the idea down so I can think on it for a bit until the ultimate inspiration hits me. I think this is the quickest I've actually completed one of those random drawings.

On my drive home from work the other day I was listening to a very funny a capella song that summarizes Mozart's Magic Flute and pictures just kept popping into my head. If I can ever find out who sang the song and find it online somewhere, I'll link it... kind of bummed that I couldn't find it to share.

Anywho... I came home and put my ideas on paper... and only a couple days later this is the finished product.

Mozart's Magic Flute - by Angie Wallace

Totally different from my usual stuff, but I kind of like it. And I must say, shading does wonders for simple line drawings. Before I added all of that I almost hated how it turned out. Overall, I think I like it though.