AEDM Day 22 - Nate and Grandma at Great Meadow

These little black and white pictures are from photographs that my husband or I have taken. Little moments of awesomeness from Nate's life. I took this picture on one of our walks at Great Meadow in Concord. What a beautiful place and what a nice way to spend the day with Grandma. Nate loves his Grandma so much.

AEDM Day 21 - son and hubby, reading

Another B&W. I've got something up my sleeve. I may or may not color these later.

AEDM Day 20 - my son in black and white

What a funny kid. Yes, those are his striped pajamas. If the weather is nice enough, he sees no reason not to go out on his scooter in his PJs. We have such a quiet neighborhood that there's no one to witness this except the long-suffering neighbors across the stress who, at this point, have seen it all, and maybe also the mailman. I drew this using Micron pen from a photograph that I took back when the weather was warm.

What frustrates me about drawing my son is that my lack of skill in drawing faces really makes it hard to capture how darn cute he really is. But still, I like the jaunty little pose that is so typical of him.

AEDM Day 19 - the view from our window

This is the view from our kitchen window (except I put blue sky where my neighbor's light yellow house would be). Today, my son and I had a great time watching various kinds of birds landing and taking off from our bird feeder with a level of activity worthy of Chicago's O'Hare airport! And then there was the chipmunk who we've nicknamed "Hoover" for the way he comes in an vacuums up the sunflower seeds. I keep chasing him away--those seeds are expensive! I keep telling him to just take one at time like the birds. No luck! :-)

AEDM Day 18 - LOVE

Sometimes designs can be doubly beneficial. They are easy on the brain; no big concepts or requirements, just fun. (Actually REALLY fun. Very relaxing, like a Zentangle.) Sort of a colorful doodle. And they can be done relatively quickly. Hence, today's little painting done while my son was in his Minecraft coding class.

AEDM Day 17 - simplistic city scene

You guys can always tell when I am super-super-busy, right? My AEDM paintings get really simple. Case in point. I did this one on time yesterday (November 17) but of course got distracted and never scanned it to put it online.

I will be painting or drawing today's image while my son is at his class. I bring all my art supplies with me.

AEDM 16 - wintry scene

This has been such a busy week. My morning art time keeps getting eroded from both ends...at night (late bedtime) and morning (out the door early). So today I did this later, at around 4:30 after a productive day of errands and a meeting with someone who wants to collaborate on a children's book. I still have so much to do, I decided to keep today's AEDM painting simple.