A little while ago i ordered some markers of my own, and my grandparents were supposed to bring them when they visited. But since Caleb and mom went to the States they decided to stay with them. However, grandma was very very nice and sent me and Claire packages with everything we had ordered! I was very happy and started working right away.


Markers are super tricky, and will take me a little while to get used to them. But they're lots of fun, and the warm grey looks really cool in my opinion.

Last night I also scanned some other things i had done in the past couple weeks:


The bird was done during our ski trip, a couple days before I broke my wrist. I really like the simplicity of it.


I also drew this one during our ski trip. I had been finishing up Les Miserables and was in a quite romantic mood (hehe) so I decided to experiment with cross-hatching. I'd probably do a couple things differently if I could have, but it was still great practice.

Thank you to all who have given me such positive and encouraging comments on my last post! it means a lot.

Perhaps some of you remember last June I had a post about me and Patrick painting a mural in our classroom. Once school started up again it was almost finished...and then things started to pile up and we never got around to putting the finishing touches on it. However, TODAY we took a few hours and it is now completed! I'll put up some better pictures later, these are just taken with my phone.



In other news, I sent in my Jars of Clay story in to the contest, and we got the results a couple days ago. I tied for second place with Patrick in our age category!! How cool is that?!?! I'm really satisfied. The awards are down in Bratislava on the 13th! Also, Lucy Till, Patrick's sister and a good friend of mine, won first place in her category! So we represented Frydlant very well I think.

Caleb is in the States now with mom. Continue to pray for them as the doctors do tests and try to figure out what's wrong with Caleb's stomach/intestines!

I've been thinking for a little while now what my next post could be about... so I finally decided!

Lately i've been in a super artistic mood and have gotten back into drawing and things along that line. But of course I don't want to just keep on doing the same stuff I've always been drawing, so I made up my mind to experiment a little.

Markers. What comes into your mind when you first hear that word? Maybe kids drawing on walls, or perhaps Sharpies! My good friend Patrick got a set of Copic markers for Christmas, so I borrowed a couple. This is what I created!

I'm VERY VERY happy with it! So happy that I ordered some grey markers of my own.

And if anyone's wondering, i have no idea who the girl is =) just some picture I found on the internet, and really liked it. Enjoy!