I drew this while sitting at Wholefoods on Columbus on the Upper West Side today. BB read while I doodled and people watched.

My doodle

My new notebooks

Please visit the shop for more info.

and also our kitchen/living space

I really should try to doodle more often.

The summer is flying by and I hope you are using your time wisely! Life has been awesome for BB and I. Really, what do we have to complain about? I’m tired of all the material things. It just leaves you to make comparisons (well i do anyway). I don’t know about you but there are so many things in this world that you’d think would make you happy. Well then what happens after you get it? It’s like a drug, only a momentary fix. In the end, you are still there. You, yourself and guess what? you’ll still have to deal with it.

So what have we been up to? We went camping upstate and flew down to Florida to hang out with my mom and dad. I’ve been drawing more. BB asked me why I don’t take pictures anymore … I really don’t know! Maybe I’ve been in a rut and I’ve needed to dig myself out because now I want to do things. I want to draw more. I want to see more clearly. I never want to stop learning! That’s one thing I know for sure!!

Here’s a quick little doodle I did by the pool side in Florida. We just got back by the way … I’ll put up some camping photos soon.

I had the week off from work and it was pretty productive and sort of … not so productive. At the beginning of the week I was moving furniture around, setting up a Malm dresser from Ikea, cleaning out bookshelves, tossing things out and made a pile of clothes to donate. Then the internet went down. The earliest Time Warner can come by is Monday the 15th – (11 days away) now that’s crazy!! Then tried to upgrade my blog and it crashed and then I had to reinstall everything and reformat the template I was working off of … so that’s about it. You may notice some minor differences here on the blog.

I hope to have a peaceful weekend with some r&r with BB and some good eating!

psst … do you have this problem? You turn your computer on (say about 9am) to check your email and then one click leads to another and before you know it the whole afternoon is gone. I guess I need some lessons on time management, what are your thoughts?

Sitting here in my hotel room and I notice that there were two telephones here. Thinking about telephones and how many we all have, do any of us have only one? No, we have multiples, whether it be cell phones or regular land lines we never just have one. If I’m wrong let me know.

I started just with one little sketch, grouped them together in photoshop and it’s turning out to be a work in progress for a nice pattern series I’ve been wanting to trying.

My submission for Illustration Friday – “I’m a plain plant but someone thinks I’m pretty.” It was originally done with pen and paper. After finishing this little piece, I realized that I never really work with the color purple. Sort of ironic, considering the topic, because it’s a very uncommon color in my world. Thanks for peeking.

Love Doves.

Above is my illustration for Illustration Friday. I drew it out using a pen, took a shot of it (no scanner because I’m not home, on vacation), and digitally colored it. It’s a plant my mom has growing in her yard. I hope you enjoy it.

It’s a cloudy day here in Florida. No swimming for us today =( Hopefully it’ll be a nice one tomorrow because we’ll be leaving here on Saturday. I can’t believe a week has gone by, well almost. Soon we’ll be home…back to NY…back to our normal lives…back to the hustle and bustle of our daily routines.