Activities People Do - Fly Fishing, Sandee Setliff

Sorry I have been missing in action for so long, hopefully I'll have more time to join in. This was done out at the Biltmore Estate. People fishing are easy to do, there isn't much activity. lol

People - flying kite - Sandee Setliff

Last Saturday, I spent the early afternoon watching people fly kites out at the 18th Annual Kite Festival in Flat Rock, NC I did discover that doing watercolor sketches of people running around "on the fly" was just too hard for me, so I water colored the background and took some photos to draw from of the kite flyers. It's a mixture of Peerless Watercolors, Inktense Blocks, and Micron Pen.

"Red Kite"

Spring - "sketching Deborah" -sandee setliff

Hi everyone, I think I have been hibernating through winter and am emerging slowly, lol Thank you Lynn for visiting my blog and checking in on me, that was so sweet! A couple of my fellow artist friends went outside yesterday sketching and this is one of the artists that I sketched. This is what you get when you sit down on something I was going to draw, lol That will teach her, huh? Here in Hendersonville, we have jonquils, crocus and hellebore in bloom but I drew none of them....

Stacks - Sandee

This is going to be easy, I said. Just round shapes, no problem, I said.

Perspective is a bore and sometimes it's hard to accomplish. I think I lost my vanishing point like ½ way through it but I kept plugging along.

Moaning and groaning.

Sometimes it's okay to Color inside the box

I couldn't help but title it this as we ( as artists ) are always saying to color outside the box and here I was adding all my color inside a box. Yeah, I'm a bit weird, but I embrace my weirdness with a sense of humor!

lol

pens and Peerless watercolor

( picture of my bottles of acrylic paints )

Life events - Sandee

Went out with a friend of mine to a Bar-Be-Que at the North Carolina Arboretum, listened to Blue Grass band and sketched one of their water features.

Peerless watercolors, micron pen

Flowers - Leggy Geraniums - sandeeNC

I've always had "garden issues" trying to get plants to grow where I want them regardless of their nature. Sometimes with less than desirable results.

Inktense and microns

Selfies and Others - new friends - Sandee Setliff

I know I am new to the group so I hope no one minds my titling this as "new friends" since I haven't been in this group very long. This is still a work in progress as I am hoping for a few more portraits to add...but I couldn't wait to share. I hope you will be able to find yourself on here.

Inktense and microns

selfie - Sandee Setliff

Drawing from a photograph is much easier for me than looking into a mirror so I thought I would challenge myself to a mirror face off!  This is the "artsy look" ...you know, where I am in my studio with no makeup on and hair pulled back, so here I am...in all my "un-glory".

Inktense, microns

Selfie - Sandee Setliff

The hardest thing about doing a selfie is the critiquing I do about me, while I am drawing me...ugh. 

I have so few pictures of me but this was taken for my design team photos that I have to have on my bio's.

Used Inktense and Microns

in the hills of North Carolina

Cups and Mugs, "Creativity in a cup of Joe", by Sandee Setliff

I love painting paintbrushes in coffee mugs, also added hand stitched beads to the brushes and attached one of my actual paintbrushes too. ( I wish my own brushes and mug holder were this pretty in real life. )

12x36" acrylics, inks, beads and dimensional paint

Hendersonville, NC