New Prompts for EDiM

For those who wanted to know, here are this year’s daily prompts for EDiM 

Why not try out daily sketching for a week? Join the EDiM Facebook group and post your daily art!

Have fun with this!

Michele

Every day in May 2017 drawing challenge

Can you believe it? It's almost the end of April and you know what that means! It's time for the "Every  Day in May" drawing challenge. Artists of all ages and abilities and from all over the world make a promise to draw or paint something every day in May. Then they share it online through Flickr, Instagram, Facebook and their blogs.

Jutta Richter hosts the EDM group on Flickr, where you can see the list of prompts illustrated above and where you can upload your daily drawings. You can also use #EDM2017 or #EDIM2017 or #everydayinmay2017 on social media.

A Nature walk may include lightning!

It started out under the freeway by the sewage treatment plant and right across the river from the railroad yard. A dream come true, you say? But wait! There's more! Meanwhile, here are my results from our nature walk this afternoon. Catching up with Day 28 in my EDIM Sketchbook.

We went on a nature walk to Spencer Island today. The clouds grew darker, the wind came up. We stopped at Langus park nearby, where I laid out my collection on the picnic table to sketch. The wind blew them off the table twice. As we retreated to the car, we saw lightning strike in the sky behind the bridge. Sketches finished on the counter at home!

Finally did a new Periscope today!

My goal this week is to fill in all the blank sketchbook pages that I missed in the Every Day in May challenge. Yes, I do realize that we are halfway through June already.  The time/space continuum cracked and I fell through......but I'm back!

My finished sketch from the live demo today. 

So in a huge multitasking effort I
1. did a new Periscope broadcast (see replay if you missed it)
2. while showing a DIY pen hack
3. while drawing an EDM sketch that I missed on 5-18-16
4. while chatting a bit and catching up with art friends.

All during lunch hour today!

So if I stay in this dimension/universe, I will be doing more live art scopes, more often but shorter ones, while catching up with my sketchbook.

Thank you so much everyone who watched live! I missed you, too! Thank you for watching the replay if you missed it live.

Let me know here or on Instagram what time works for you and I will try to plug in some of those extra Periscopes just for you.

Catching up on my EDIM Sketches-Day 11

A bucket-Day 11 of EDM-I finally have time to catch up on some of the "daily" sketches for the month of May.
My #periscope Broadcasts have been few and far between, which I mean to remedy, starting tomorrow, Thursday.

Here are a few progressive shots. 

This bucket came from an antique shop. A similar one is in the shed. It was used by my husband's grandmother to milk the cows on her farm in Arkansas.  

EDM Day 1

I have accepted the "Every Day in May" challenge to draw something each day from now to the end of the month. 31 drawings in 31 days. I will post them on my Flickr Photostream here.

This plastic bath toy floats on his back and flutters his feet when you wind him up. All our grandchildren have played in the bath with this little swimmer.

Get Ready for Every Day in May drawing challenge!

I know there are quite a few people out there who have committed to a drawing challenge where they are making a sketch a day for the entire year! Keep it up! You are already 1/3 of the way there!

For those of us who need a challenge a bit more within immediate reach, how about committing to a sketch a day for the month of May? That's 31 sketches more than you have right now!

That's the list from Janet Burns

Don't forget to check out the daily uploads at EDM Every Day in May on Flickr. Get a Flickr account, join the group and upload yours!

See you May 1st on Flickr! Follow the link and look back at my EDM for 2015.

EDiM 20 - Your Wallet/Billfold

After I started sketching in more urban areas, I decided to get a compact wallet. It's one that has a shield for cards that have RFID. It holds my credit cards, ORCA pass, and a few bills, but not so good for change.
I picked the one that looks like Vincent Van Gogh's painting of the Irises. Good choice for an artist, eh?

EDiM - 4 Bottle(s) of Herbs or Spices

Years ago, I met a chef who gave me his recipe for bouillabaisse. It included a crucial ingredient, he told me; saffron. Since it was so expensive, I tried planting my own Saffron crocus. Fail. The flowers come up every year but I never get any threads* from them.

Square bottle of Saffron, Bay Leaves, Cordon Bleu Mixed Herbs for Pasta, Italian Herbs, Rosemary, Garlic & Sea  Salt, Vial of Saffron

*Saffron crocus grows to 20–30 cm (8–12 in) and bears up to four flowers, each with three vivid crimson stigmas, which are the distal end of a carpel. The styles and stigmas, called threads, are collected by hand and dried to be used mainly as a seasoning and coloring agent in food.

Every Day in May

Tomorrow is May 1, 2015 and I have a challenge for you: Join sketchers, artists and people just like you in making a commitment to drawing something every day for a month. Here's more: (zoom to read larger)

I plan to do this and post the day's sketch on my blog each day. I may also join the Flickr group and put mine on Instagram as well. If you like, come back to this post to find out the prompt for the day you're working on. Don't worry if you miss a day, just catch up when you can.
This is going to be fun!

PS. I can't wait to see what your favorite food is! If it was Homer Simpson, I would already know. :)