La plage (on ne m'y verra pas)

I love the beach. In winter, it's really beautiful. In summer, well, I like it because my daughter and friends like it and it means good times and summer, and yes, when you can see through the people before the sea it's actually beautiful too.
Of course there are some beaches where we never, ever go, because they are horribly dirty and crowdy. But they're funny too look at from afar, and how not to love all those lovely colors?

The journaling says : (I translate with the rhymes, of course) :

The beach near the harbour
In pictures I adore
But there getting roasted if you want to see me
You'll have to give me a lot of money. ^^

(la plage du port - en photo je l'adore - mais il faudrait me payer cher - pour m'y faire rôtir les chairs!)

Quatre lampes

Wandering and admiring other blogs, I realized with surprise that I have a special love for lamp drawings. I'm not going to try to understand this as it's obviously a peaceful, non threatening new oddity. So here are some lamps. I had a lot of satisfaction drawing them...



Maybe I'm a little too easily satisfied, but I like how they turned out... Even the one in the middle, I know it's all wrong, the forged S on the left is too big and thick, but it doesn't bother me, and I don't exactly understand why.
Do you see it all wrong or okay in a twisted way?

I love my computer

At first I wanted to do the edm challenge about drawing your favorite show... so I did this, then checked the challenges list and realized I had it all wrong... The challenge is to draw your tv and the show running on it...
No problem at all. I love my computer, so here it is, immortalized, in its almost complete glory (one day I'll learn to think and measure before doing things. Maybe.)

My journaling says that if I had realized how long it would take me to draw all the little buttons on the keyboard, I would not have begun this at all.
The scrubs picture was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be too, even worse when I tried to color it.
This is the thing before adding the color.


When my daughter's back from her vacation, I'll try the challenge 51 again, this time with the real tv and the only show I can stand on it : Sponge Bob Square Pants - Bob l'Eponge Carrée.

An award!!!

I feel happy and honored and on a little cloud (expression of great happiness in french!) because Rachel nominated me for this award :

The rules for accepting this award are:

1. Choose 5 blogs you consider deserving of this award for creativity, design, interesting material and a contribution to the blogging world.

2. List the name of each person awarded and a link to their blog.

3. Show the award and the name and blog link of the person who presented you with the award.

4. Show the link to the Arte Y Pico blog. http://arteypico.blogspot.com/

5. Show the rules.

So I'm glad that this gives me the occasion to send this award forward to the following persons :

Margaret Ann - I'm totally in love with her art and sense of color

Margaret Hunt - so many incredible and wondeful works to admire

Stephanie - love her lines and variety

Kathleen - love her beautiful, neat style

Rowena - not an edm member, I love her creations and the reflexion behind them

Et voilà!

Off to send messages to everyone and then maybe I'll finish the drawing I begun earlier... time is scarce these days.

Polka Dots?

This is my take for Inspire Me Thursday's theme for this week : Polka Dots. English not being my native language I'm not sure if the dots I put on the page are polka dots or just dots... To me polka is just a dance, actually :)


I first drew the trashcans for Every Day Matters challenge of the week, and coincidence, they are full of dots.
I love dots, polka or whatever!

Des yeux, une buse, une poubelle et Draguignan

Today after a long and hot morning in my car, I finally had time to finish this drawing and color it. I found out that birds's faces are as difficult to draw as people. You can't tell because it's small and I'm not showing you the original photo (I've got my pride, you know) but this bird had a really pissed of (of or off?) expression and I didn't render it like I wanted.

I found the bird on the Internet. It's a common buzzard, a little more fair in color than the one I often see in my hikes here. he's the reason I bought the binoculars.
I also found the eye on the internet. I wish I had good eyes like these birds! Instead I decided it was time to make an appointment with the eye doctor (too lazy this evening to look this word in the dictionary - in french it's called "ophtalmologue"). I'm fed up with my glasses falling from my nose all the time.
This is the bird and eye before coloring. I loved drawing them.

Well, as you can see, that's a trashcan. My kid has the same in green and I think I'm going to draw it too.

And this is Draguignan where I had to go this morning to update my car's papers. I have an appointment this week with the police road patrol to prove I did that... They controlled me as I was coming back from the wedding sunday at 4 am. I was glad they didn't control my alcohol intake too. They were nice, I didn't even get a fine for not updating my papers. It took me two hours to go to Draguignan instead of the usual one hour, because of the many tourists on the roads.

But I never get tired of seeing this. I can understand the turists attraction!

Deux paires de lunettes, des jumelles et un mariage

I saw many glasses on blogs and liked them, so I thought I would try to draw mine. I drew my cheap and really cool pair of sunglasses and my old and broken pair of glasses I use when I'm on the laptop.
The missing branch is not a mistake, it's really not there anymore. I have to keep my back and head very straight to keep the glasses on my nose, it's good for the posture...

While I was at it I decided to draw my binoculars. Had to look in the dictionary for that one. In french we call them "jumelles", that means "twins".

And then I decided to use some of the photos I took yesterday and draw them. It took me forever! I had a hard time and made a lot of messes with my friend's face... Still not happy with it but I give up for now! I had fun with the rest. I think I'll color the page, but I wanted a black and white copy because I'll try to make the faces better.

The car is an old Citroën Ami 8 and it looked so great!
My friend looked great too, before I tried to draw her...
Oh, and the hat, it's called a faluche. My friend and her husband met in a party organized by a student fun association called "les faluchards". They have these funny hats like the students had in middle age times, and they mostly party and have fun. It's not very well known in France, most people don't even know about it. (I didn't until I met Anne).