My Shares, Challenges 8-17

Hi All!
I think I need to take pictures and post these more than once a week...but we'll see if that happens. It has been good for me to make the decision to take some time every day to draw. It really is a peaceful thing to do in the morning...and if my eyes hold out...a great way to unwind in the evening too! It has really been a blessing. Now onto my shares:

Challenge #8

This is my hand, if you can't figure that out by the extreme closeup....This is the ring I got for Mother's Day this year. It has a stone for my hubby, and all 5 of my kids...they are where they belong....inside of my heart! I love this ring...I've always wanted a ring with my kids birthstones on it...and this one's even better! It has my hubby too, and all of their names written on it on the sides. Very fun ring!

I didn't have the right colors of watercolor pencils to paint the correct color of the gold ring...it's a much lighter, softer gold than that...and the Diamond stone...the whiteness, and sparkly-ness of it usually makes it stand out more than the rest...which didn't happen on this. :o)

Here's an even closer look at the ring...

Challenge #9 Organized Chaos...

Yes, I could have drawn so many things....but while drawing a zentangle, and talking to my daughter about what I should draw for it....I showed her the progress on my large zentangle...saying.."now THIS is organized chaos".....and it hit me....I could do a zentangle! AND...Being as I had read last week sometime...that doodling was like a heart song....I couldn't get this one children's Primary song out of my head...so I zentangled the song:

"I think the world is glorious and lovely as can be

The birds, and bees, and blossoms bring sweet messages to me..

I sing, and sing, and sing, and sing....a song of joy and love...

I sing, and sing, and sing, and sing...my thanks to God above."

Here's a close up of the drawing, you can see all of the words of the song on it:

Challenge #10 Draw a hand.

As an interpreter, I just HAD to draw a sign....and what better sign? :o)

Here's a close up....it's my daughter's hand, she was kind enough to be my model. :o)

Oh NO! I just saw that I have numbered the drawings wrong from here on! grrr...bummer...

Here is Challenge #11 (not 10) Sunglasses...I really wanted to try to paint black and see if I could it to work. I think the drawing looked better than the painting...but the painting looks better to me this week than it looked to me last week. I hated them last week. Interesting how that works sometimes...I need to remove myself for things and come back to them later to get a better assessment of what I did.

Challenge # 12 (not really 11) This was a delicious Dinner..but a real pain to draw and paint. I shouldn't have cut my sandwich before I took the pic... LOL. I see I should have painted the weather box...it looks like it's begging to be colored in! :o)
Challenge # 13 (not 12) Draw a phone.

If I had had enough time...I would have drawn my Mickey Mouse phone...but also, my hubby was sleeping in the room, and I didn't want to go into the room to get it, as it might bother him. ...So, I drew the cell phone that my daughter in law handed down to me when she got her iPhone. My old cell phone...(that used to be my daughter before she got married) Was so old, and stopped working..so my DIL gave me hers. It's a nice phone...(it's no iPhone) But I hate to use cell phones...I don't trust them to not cause tumors, and only want to use them with a ear bud or a blue tooth. So...I often don't bring mine with me....unless I think I might get lost...and I usually leave it turned off most of the time. I don't give out this number, because I don't check it, or have it on. Only my family knows the number, and they know I keep it turned off most of the time. I do know it has come in handy for emergencies. :o)

I decided to draw it closed, 'cause that's how I see it the most.

Challenge #14 (not 13) What I see the first thing when I wake up.....my Daisy Dog. There she is, with a trusty toy....usually those tiny tennis balls they make for small dogs. It was hard to draw, but the pic of it doesn't even show all of the detail, sadly. I'm still not happy with the drawing...she was a weird angle to draw...with her one paw up and around her toy ball..but that's her....always having to bring a toy with her where ever she goes. :o)
Sabbath Day.....While hubby took his Father's Day nap....I drew this card for him...not a part of the challenge...I don't draw the challenge on the Sabbath Day....taking a break from it on Sundays, and drawing something else on that day.
Here's a close up of the Dad Zentangle:
Challenge #15 (not 14) Draw a leaf or tree...I drew a tree IN a leaf...how's that for different? I even made the letters have leafy veins in them....This was so much fun to draw!

I drew it on the first day of Summer...
Here are some close ups to see details:

Challenge # 16 (not 15) Draw your favorite tool....I use a lot of tools...I thought about it...and decided to draw the one I use the most....My fairly new MacBookPro.
Challenge #17 (not 16) Draw a musical Instrument

Well...I pondered this a LOT! I even did a google image search and made a picture file. I really have a desire to draw and paint some musical instruments..but not so much in this journal...but in a series of studies, and drawings and paintings...another time...So...I thought I would draw here, something fun....and what is more colorful than a toy Xylophone? I saw a few online that were cute...but I took one butterfly one I saw, drew the xylophone part of that one....then added my own changed up butterfly.

I used light blue watercolor for parts of the butterfly body, then markers for the rest.... and one grey color pencil for shadows and dimension. This was fun....and I wish I owned this toy for real....it would be fun to play with it with my grandkids!