One month at a time in Louise's book

Louise's theme is One Day at a Time. I think a lot about calendars and seasons, and I make long lists and tables of what lies ahead. Living in Singapore, we mark time differently, and at least in my mind--more quickly. Perhaps my listing and plotting is all about putting on the brakes.

I've been whittling away for a few months on a little calendar as a gift for my mom, and as I doodle the months, I think on what lies ahead in 2015. Hopefully--oodles of slow possibility. I like the thought of blank days and empty months.

Whimsy in the Park

I'm learning from my colleague, Patrick Green, to #steallikeanartist. So for my first sketch on the theme whimsy, I did a google search for inspiration. There are beautiful graphic designs with whimsical trees and birds. Following the tree idea, I also saw a poster at the SG Botanic Gardens recently with trees made out of simple shapes. I'm always trying to learn something new when I create something for a sketchbook, so this was my lesson in Adobe Illustrator. YouTube helped me figure out how to make the tear drops and how to draw shapes you can color in. It was fun! I hope you enjoy my whimsical adventure.

What Inspires Patrick?

My sketch this round is an attempt to depict just how powerfully inspiring my wife is.

I tried to show this through having a plain old letter "P" morph into something more beautiful.  You can see that the B part of the letter is helping to make the "P" part more creative. The idea was that the art and creativity of B "decorates" my life and infects me and changes me and ultimately inspires me.

I tried my hand at the process my wife uses to make her cards.  I hand drew the B, then traced it in Adobe illustrator, then used "live paint" to apply the colors.