eggs have grown in size . . .

My brother and I were looking through some of our mom’s belongings yesterday, and among them was this very tiny egg cup. We don’t know if it once belonged to Mom’s mother or grandmother, but eggs were definitely smaller then!

I spread out my sketching tools in a Wichita hotel to sketch it this morning. And was obviously too quick at erasing the faint pencil lines where text was added. Ink smudges seem to be my trademark. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🖋️ 

playing with my Christmas palette

We are currently in Kansas but just before leaving Texas I spent the day painting a few cards using the Christmas palette I put together, filling a red Trailbound Demi palette from Art Toolkit (found here) with Letter Sparrow paints I already owned, patterned after their recent Holiday Hues collaboration with Lisa Spangler, now apparently out of stock.

At first I used 8 mini pans and a small mixing pan, but later I switched out the mixing pan for standard pans of sparkly paints, taken from Art Toolkit’s limited edition Rainglow palette (paints from Case for Making). With a larger “gold”, I was also able to add Shire Blue, which looks similar to the “blue” mixed from the quinacridone magenta and peacock. The sky in the lower card was painted with the magenta-peacock mix! (with a touch of lunar black)