It’s been a busy holiday season and I hope it was wonderful for you all.  Presents and food and family ruled, but not necessarily in that order.  It was out first Christmas with our new granddaughter, Zoe (7 months) and it was heavenly!   BUT, I didn’t get much artwork done.   Let’s see….turkey…..art…..turkey….art…..it was tough!  The choice, not the turkey!

My New Year’s almost Resolution is to try to keep up the daily art, so I decided that if I couldn’t stop and paint, I could at least draw a little.   I gave myself a Christmas present (well, one of them) of a 5 X 3 spiral sketch pad by Canson and a new Stylist Pen (one of my favorite drawing pens….like the flair).  The pad and pen are below.  The first 4 days of drawings follow.

drawing pad & pen 1-4-20

By the way, I got this idea from my son, Thom Chiaramonte, who makes small sketches on post-its.  I think they have helped him through many a conference call in S.F.  His are all on the subject of robots (I think they are all that).  You would enjoy his sketches and his sense of humor.  His site for these drawings is:  whatitoleyou.com.   Have fun.

#1 Bouquet of strange flowers    (1/1/10)

Drawing-flowers-1-20

#2 Mountain Chickadee (1-2-10)

Drawing-bird-1-20

#3 I call him Pepe  (1-3-10)

Drawing-dog-Pepe-1-20

#4 Lillies

Drawing-Lillies-1-20

3 Responses to “Starting the Decade with Drawings”

  1. thom says:

    Hey this is starting the year off RIGHT!

    The site is http://www.whatitoleyou.com or you can copy/paste the link noted above, yes. Thanks for remembering!

  2. Doris says:

    I like Pepe and the Chickadee. So cute!

  3. Leila Schnyder says:

    Jan, the drawings are awesome. Sometimes I think that your greatest strength is your amazing drawings and sketches.

    Leila

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