Sunday Sketches

My Sunday Sketch is actually an ink doodle on an ACEO card. I call it, "Cable's Out".  My cable TV was out for a couple of days. Not much to do. So I started doodling on a piece of paper and then thought, "Wait, I should just do an ACEO doodle" and I did. And here it is.


Visit BlueChairDiary Blog for some awesome other Sunday Sketches: http://bluechairdiary.blogspot.com/    Please keep Sophia's father & Sophia in your prayers!

Friday Feature

Today's Friday Feature is not from any of my Etsy teams but someone who is a former co-worker. Someone that I had no idea was an artist. So what a wonderful surprise it was for me to find her art.  Today's feature is for Edith Thompson....Edie to me! We both worked for the Md Department of Natural Resources together in now what seems to be many moons ago. She was a wildlife biologist there. Edie has a very long history of working and volunteering for the benefit of preserving our natural resources. Now listen to me...you would think she's an old woman but she's not! LOL

As you go through Edie's work you can feel her love for nature in her illustrations and watercolors of wildlife. In fact, wildlife, nature and landscapes are her specialty! She does portraits as well. There's an awesome pen and ink of  Hendrix on her website. She works primarily in pen and ink and watercolor and has had her technical illustrations of wildlife published in a number of technical publications and educational materials.

According to her bio she went to studied illustration and design in college...who knew?  It paid off because her work is beautiful. She had a creative way for funding her college. She used her art to pay her way , painting & designing wall murals on tile.

 Her website is: http://www.whitearrowgraphics.com/  She is a member of Artists for a Cure and a portion of her proceeds go to the Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation (http://accrf.org/).  What a wonderful thing to do!  I read a little about Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma on her website. It's a very rare cancer that involves the head and neck.

She also sells at  http://fineartamerica.com/art/all/edith+thompson/all  So you can have a beautiful piece of art and contribute to helping find a cure too. I would say that's quite a deal! :)