Waiting Room – technical pen sketch
Rebecca Stahr – © copyright 2010

What else it there to do while waiting and waiting? Secretly quick sketch people who are stuck waiting too of course.

At the Keno Drive-In – ballpoint pen sketch
Rebecca Stahr – © copyright 2010

We packed up the car and headed out on our adventure. We had our blankets, the soda and enough candy and cookies to send someone into a diabetic coma. We were having fun at the drive-in... until the fog rolled in. My son was highly disappointed when we left after the first movie and didn't get to see Iron Man 2.

Bartlett Pear – watercolor pencil sketch
Rebecca Stahr – © copyright 2010

I seem to have a fruit theme going in my quick sketches lately. The colors are just so beautiful.

Breakfast Berries – colored pencil
Rebecca Stahr – © copyright 2010

Inspirations strikes at the oddest time sometimes. For instance, I am starving because I haven't eaten my breakfast yet (still haven't by the way) and as I am cutting up a bowl of fresh berries the sparkle of the color of the freshly washed berries catches my eye. Of course I can't eat them now... I have to draw them first.

Does your creativity ever consume you to the point you have to act on it NOW? Do you ever find yourself so caught up in your work that a whole day could go by and you realize you haven't even bothered to stop and eat? Creativity sure is a demanding creature sometimes.

I've fed my little creativity monster for the moment... now back to me. Where are those berries?

My poor boy... He gets sick and I get out the sketchbook. It's about the only time anymore that he will sit still for me long enough to study him anymore even if it is only between the ten or so times he has vomited since 4am.

This spring break we took a mini stay-cation at a close by resort hotel. I am not a big swimmer so I spent a lot of time reading and sketching...

My son and his Dad were outside building a family of snowmen when all of the sudden there was a knock at the back door. My little master snowman builder had a mitten full of dead echinacea flower seed heads in his hand and wanted me to open the door... "I picked these for you." My heart melted.

My son loves bugs. What boy doesn't. We have been watching some cool stuff on animal planet and they really are amazing, gross and outright brutal. Did you know that when a fly lands on your food it vomits on it before it sucks it up through it's strawlike mouth...like I said gross stuff.

This morning we were reading an insect book and I was captivated by the details and colors of these tiny creatures. Needless to say, as soon as I dropped the boy off at school I grabbed my sketchbook and started drawing. Too bad the library book goes back by Friday. I might just have to visit a book store and get a bug book of my own.

Recently my son has entered a new phase of development in his drawing. He has started to copy the way I sit and sketch and it is adorable. Instead of drawing from his imagination, he actually sits and draws his surroundings. I tend to be very sketchy when I am doing quick sketches from life and he even imitates that with his line work. I love watching kids draw and seeing their mind and imagination working. I am looking forward to many more sketch outings with my boy.

Just returned from sunny Florida to the snowy cold midwest winter. I was able to spend one morning by the pool sketching in the beautiful sunny weather.

This image is one of my all time favorite sketches of mine. My husband and I fondly refer to our son as "The Boy". The Boy has his special bear that has been with him since the day he was born. "Bear" has now been replaced with Star Wars and Nintendo DS. Time goes by so fast and this picture will always be special to me.