Knackered for WOYWW

I am knackered, pooped,

tired out, totally had it

and any other word that describes

how I feel right now.

Before I get into why

I'll show you my desk this week.

 

As you can see

I had a sketchy weekend. 

I went to the art shop to buy 

some charcoal and came away

with the coolest looking pencil case

(I had one just like this in high school)

which contained 20 different coloured 

fineliner pens, then of course I had to buy 

journals to use the pens in.

Here are a few of the sketches

as well as my darlek pencils in the wheelie bin

and if you look closely you can see

my sonic screwdriver pen amongst the boring ones.

Yes' I know, I'm a sad puppy.

On a different note, at last I have figured out 

how to do a Facebook Page for my art.

I'd love it if you would like me at

VonnyK Art & Illustrations

I don't use the personal part of Facebook

so if you would just use the page

I would love it.

I might even figure out how to get

a button on the blog side bar at some point.

I spent monday and tuesday

at a life drawing workshop.

You know the kind,

where they have a nudie person 

for you to draw.

This was my first such class and 

I had a few worries.

I'm not a prude, well,

I'm a bit of a prude, okay

I'm a prude.

My hubby flaunts his bits all around the place

but I keep my bits to myself

and I'm sure you can understand

my fears at attending this workshop.

My teacher De (who has a really evil streak)

assured me that I needed to learn how to draw

from "life".

Both mornings were theory

(no nudie people yet, so still smiling)

We did scribbles

I heard that giggle!!

and woggles

Now that was a down right laugh, I can hear you, you know!

and eventually something that looked like a human.

(it's okay, I don't draw the rude bits).

Hah, not so bad this time, is it. Yeah, she is a little skinny in the leg department but it's better the the other ones.

We learned lots of practical ways to look

and work out size and where to start drawing.

So far so good.

Then to the afternoon and yes you guessed it,

the nudie lady.

I tell you, I didn't even notice that

she didn't have any clothes on.

They had a stop watch and you had to draw 

so quickly that my charcoal 

was smoking.

I was lucky to get a stick figure out

let alone a proper picture.

All the theory was spinning around 

in my head.

My eyes were telling my brain one thing

and then the hand would disagree and just

draw something else, then the brain was yelling at my hand

and my eyes were just spinning 

in their sockets

and all I could hear was

"TIMES UP"

Honestly, if I didn't like that man so much,

he would be wearing that stopwatch

where the sun don't shine!

You think that's bad,

all of a sudden my teacher yells,

turn your easels and lets all share 

our pictures.  

I just wanted to curl up and disappear

with embarrassment.

But hey, I made it through (just)

and even came back the next day.

Now that in itself should be worth some

browny points with my teacher.

What's that? You want to have a laugh

at my terrible drawings.

Well fine, here are a few

(with carefully placed hiding things)

go on have a good giggle.

Don't you just love those stick figures.

My apologies to Salvador Dali,

that's the bloke I was supposed to draw

but instead ended up with some 

broken nosed boxer with a mo.

After all the pain of the life drawing class

it was a pleasure to go back to my normal

art class today.

I did some more to my seagulls

with huge amounts of help

from my teacher De.

(I think I used up those brownie points).

It still has a long way to go but getting there.

I've waffled on a bit but hey,

you have to agree it was a big week.

On top of all this I had to do my online

sketchbook class.

This week was drawing selfies

 and there's no way

I'm showing these in public

even if my clothes are on!

So now, if you are still awake,

why not go to

Julia's Stamping Ground

and visit the 

other desks around the world

this workdesk wednesday.

 

P.S. Don't forget to have a look at my Facebook Page

and let me know what you think.

Please be gentle, I'm new at this social media stuff.

 

Bitsa week for WOYWW

It's been a bitsa this and

bitsa that week.

I'm doing a sketchbook course

and that's what is on my desk.
No boring paperwork anymore

I've finished it and I even

filed it away.

Now that's a first for me!

No it's not on the floor

I actually filed it in the filing cabinet!

See, the desk is still quite tidy :)

For my sketchbook course we had to draw

 something with lots of detail.

So I decided to do my iron,

 (hey it's far better than actually ironing with it).

You can see 6 ink pens,

would you believe all but one were

dried up, talk about pain in the bum.

The sweets are for my sugar fix.

I got them free with some printer ink,

that alone keeps me going back them :)

 How cute are my new drawers.

I bought them to hide all the rubbish that sits on

top of the printer and they go perfectly with

my Tardis and Darlek.

I had a finish bits week with my painting.

I finished off my beautiful pelican.

"Mr P Makes Waves"

 Just look at all that delicious texture.

I love him so much I'm going to keep him.

Then I put on the hanger and sealed

 my other painting.

"Sailing at Sunset"

This has heaps of mica paint but 

it doesn't show up in the photo

and then I started a new canvas

 Yep, back on birds again.

In class I'm doing this monstrosity

Mess

 

Super messy,

It's seagulls fighting over 

some food in the water.

I have to tell you that cos

there's no way you would see that

at this stage.

The ink's just gone down and 

it will be totally different when I 

get to class next week.

It's been a turbulent week with

Charlie parrot and trying to get

his medicine into him.

If you can imagine one little parrot

and three adults holding him down 

you might get the picture.

I always get the pointy end

but I still have most of my fingers left.

That's my desk for this week,

now why not hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on the other desks

around the world this wednesday.

Blah, paperwork for WOYWW

My desk is no fun this week.

I've left my tax until the last minute

and now all I have on my 

"art" desk is paperwork.

Blah, just like the old days

when I was a boring old bookkeeper.

(sigh).

Such a sad sight

and to make it worse,

the number one man in my life

is ill.

No, not my hubby

 he's way down the list.

It's my beautiful boy, Charlie the parrot.

He started picking at his feet and it wasn't mites.

Turns out he has extremely high

cholesterol, yes you heard right,

birds get high cholesterol

and no it wasn't all my fault,

well mostly, oh alright,

it was my fault.

I have had him for 24 years and fed him on 

the finest quality parrot seed and

what ever veggies we are having, 

in fact all the foods we eat

(he loves a good curry)

including his penchant for

Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

 But it was the seed that caused

most of the problems.

Who knew that you shouldn't feed a bird seed.

Once he's feeling better I have to put him 

on a strict diet of special pellets

and veggies

but he can still have the odd chocolate.

Trying to get his medication down his throat

is my biggest problem right now.

Who would have thought

this innocent looking little fellow

could be so strong and smart.

I've tried everything to get him to take his medicine.

It always ends the same,

I end up wearing the medicine.

If I put it on some food, he throws it at me.

If it gets put on some bread he throws it in his water bowl.

I tried holding him down but who knew he

could get that bottom beak around the top one

and bite a persons finger!

The vet assured me that all birds love this stuff

and it tastes like honey.

The only trouble is,

he isn't a bird, he's a flamin

 smart alec human wannabe!!

Just think how hard it's going to be to get

him off of seed and onto pellets.

Amidst the chaos of this week

I did do a little bit of painting

on my boat.

 

 I've started to add more light and shade

to the boat and

I added some oldness to the seats.

My teacher was explaining to us that there

should always be an element of death or age

Prior to shading.

to a painting to make it more real.

If you do a vase of flowers

there should always be a blemish or dead

leaf or petal.

So I decided to make the boat

a bit old and broken.

I'll do a bit to the hull as well

and then add some more contrast,

but it's looking good so far.

After a layer of shading, more to come.

Well that's me for this week,

now why don't you hop on over to

Julia's Stamping Ground

to see the other desks around the world

this workdesk wednesday.

Did you notice that apart from the tax stuff,

the room is still quite tidy!!!!

Surely that's worth a couple of brownie points??

Spring does scary things for WOYWW

There are people who go a bit loopy 

when there is a full moon

and there are people,

like me,

who, apart from being loopy

most of the time, go extra loopy

in springtime. 

Yes, spring has sprung with avengeance

around here.

I have to warn you, there is some scary

content further down this post.

Those weak of heart should sit down now.

But first, to my desk 

Nothing new here, it's been school holidays

so no art just madness.

Then on thursday we decided to go to Ikea.

Little Miss got lots for her room

an I got these little beauties

for my art room.

Trouble was, I couldn't move once they were in there.

That's when it happened.

I got this strange (spring has sprung) urge

and against all my better judgement,

this happened....

SIT DOWN

 QUICK

There was a white floor under all that mess!!

 Who would have thought, hey?

ARGH!!!  It's so clean.

I just couldn't help myself.

It started with just a little bag of rubbish

and then

this pile went to the rubbish tip

and the rest was spread around the lounge

Okay, so I won't show you the bad bit around the other corner, might be too much for you all.

See, my plan to take over lounge is working,

MWA HA HA.

In my madness I noticed that I had a bare wall,

so I soon fixed that

with a load of my old pics.

I just hope that my messy room isn't like

Samson's hair.

Cut out the mess and cut out the creativity.

Bah, who am I kidding,

it'll be a mess again in no time.

A little bit of art was done,

think they are finished but I 

won't seal them yet.

Lovin these colours.

 

This sunset is covered in mica paints but they won't photograph so you'll just have to trust me.

 School holidays are over now

so I hope to actually get in and use

my "Studio" before it 

becomes a tip again.

Well, that's all my shock and excitement

for this wednesday,

now why don't you hop over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see all the other desks around 

the world today.

P.S. Sorry about all the photo's Julia

but I had to document this problem

to warn others of the terrible

Spring has Sprung bug.