The Sketch Book

flora and fauna

Goodwednesday to you all, its time for more question and answer on new card ideas. I simply cannot make decisions for myself. So do you want to see a postcard like whats above, or a standard flat...

friday dancing

Hello! Have you all seen this Prada SS2011 video? It simultaneously cracks me up and inspires me deeply. So in an effort to continually raise the bar for my feats of illustration, I decided to ill...

hydrangeas

Good morning! Some flowers for you... What are your thoughts on this as a new card? Would it benefit from some of my usual black pen sketching or does it stand up with just paint? and perhaps wi...

weekend getaway

Hello! Happy Friday! No I'm not scampering off to some place sunny and warm like this post title may suggest... but if I were I would want to be wearing this. Does annnyyyyyonneee know where this...

Sketch Book's first birthday

Guess what today is... its the one year anniversary of this blog! Can you believe it? I can't... it seems like just yesterday that this clueless blog virgin started out. I was so green, I didn't ev...

Golden... Man Repellers

Goodmorning! So let me guess. Right now you are groggily dragging yourself through your daily blog wanderings and you are getting smacked in the face by picture after picture of Olivia Wilde. Whic...

People Watching

Bonjour! I considered writing this whole post in french, but then i realized it would be much more of a mess than when Garance tries to type her posts sans translator. (and i might add, much less...

loosen up/good old days

yes, i know, its another beach-lounging lady with a book two days in a row. #whitegirlproblems i just found this one in a digging-through-old-stuff session. this was from august of '07. i like h...

book worm

good morning! this is a monday to end all mondays. today is christmas tree murder day. yes there is a giant truck/machine outside my window eating up the discarded christmas trees with horrible tee...

glorious weekend

here's a little leighton meester afternoon delightfulness for you. isn't she cute? someone once told me that my teeth look like hers (???? whatever shes hot i'll take it) and i have always felt i...