Tag: my sketch

• My Pocket Sketchbook Completed— Video

  

  Sketchbooks make great conversation pieces. I have completed these 2 pocket-sized books, and I will continue drawing in my jumbo size sketchbook and my drawing paper book for drawings that are also finished art and can be shown or displayed on their own. My 2nd sketchbook is complete. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is the cover…

  03/25/2023 6:16 pm

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• My Sketchbook, A Silent Movie

  

  pocket edition in the morning light 😊. You can also view this short silent movie on YouTube if you prefer. (That YouTube is just for blog videos or talk shows, and I link them here. My Yoga YouTube is a separate Channel linked on my About page.) 💕 Love, Jade

  03/22/2023 8:24 am

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• A Low Pine in the Sunshine, My 1st Pocket Sketchbook’s Complete!

  

  …I guess I did some of my own ‘field work’ sketching ‘in the field’ today. A low pine in the sunshine, Mar. 18, 2023, from my pocket sketchbook near home. I sat on a rock to view this scene of pine trees in the afternoon light, and I placed my jacket against me as a…

  03/18/2023 5:32 pm

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• The Ocean Shore

  

  The Ocean Shore, from my pocket sketch-book, completed Feb. 3, 2023, a scene from memory, inspired by the song, “Servant of Love” by Patty Griffin, a scene that might have not appeared in this particular song but the song had moved me, reminded me of this view from my memory, and inspired me to draw.…

  02/03/2023 7:40 pm

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂…

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• A Leaf Composition

  

  a sketch from imagination, arranging leaves for abstract practice, pocket book December 29, 2022. 💕—Jade

  12/29/2022 7:09 pm

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• Wild Sumac: Look, Don’t Touch, and Definitely Don’t Eat

  

  This is a sketch of the wild sumac growing outside my window. In North America, this plant is poisonous, but in the Middle East you can eat them and may find the berries made into dressing in certain classic dishes. I sketched the sumac quickly as an art lesson I’d found that looking at shapes…

  12/29/2022 7:49 am

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• Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library

  

  Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with…

  12/13/2022 5:07 pm

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• A Lady Practicing Yoga

  

  by Jade Nicole Beals, graphite pencils on paper, Oct. 5 2022. I don’t know this lady, but I found her in a yoga book I have, so I drew her doing yoga…The new very light portable wood easel I got can be placed in a flat position so I could draw on it in a…

  10/05/2022 9:15 pm

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• Miss May Ziadeh

  

  “Miss May Ziadeh.” A pencil drawing portrait in my pocketbook. September 2022, by Jade Nicole Beals. Born Feb. 11, 1886, May was a well-renowned poet, writer, and literary salon host who greatly valued art, beauty, kindness; equality, freedom, and education for women; nature, books, individuality and diversity, attention, deep friendship, and romantic love. (Click her…

  09/19/2022 6:49 pm

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• New England Garden: Dahlia Day and Fairy Forest

  

  It was Dahlia Day at the garden my husband Dan and I went to for the day. This New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is in North Western MA. It is nice too that libraries around MA offer passes that discount the admission price greatly, and one pass covers two people for the day.…

  09/18/2022 11:08 am

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• A Pair of Leaves in the Rain

  

  back inside, the lamplight showed the page in a warm light I wasn’t planning to sketch or even paint today, but the fire-alarms were going to be tested today, and began, so I grabbed my purse, pocket sketchbook, a book to read, pencil, and sharpener that were on my side table. I was going outside…

  08/22/2022 5:47 pm

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• La Salette Shrine and Retreat Center: Talk…—and Sketch

  

  August 22, 2022 …And now it’s tomorrow, and I have two little true life stories to tell. But first, this is the setting where I am now as I tell them: I’ve just finished all of my green tea this morning from this little mug that I was going to rinse in the kitchen when…

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

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• From My Biggest Sketchbook: Presenting…Peeko

  

  He was so pleasantly surprised when I began to sketch him tonight! His mouth slightly opened and he bowed his head too, smiling the whole time, and winked at me dramatically a few times too. (Live) in the moment, no photo—Peeko. Aug. 19, ‘22 Now I will go! and continue using those index cards I…

  08/19/2022 7:51 pm

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• Morning Sketch from a Field Afternoon: treasures

  

  I drew this sketch this morning, with my morning tea, from a few first sketches I’d drawn yesterday—(it was still a heatwave, so I’d gone back in after a little while even with my water canteen.) I drew with pencil, eraser, and pocket-book in a little spot in nature where I could kneel beneath this…

  08/17/2022 8:29 am

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• Lines of a Memorable Poem…and a Forgotten Sketch Found

  More to come on this wonderful collection of Rumi’s poetry that I am satisfied reading without needing to complete it…Here is a photo of some memorable lines: —Rumi The Book of Love: poems of ecstasy and longing … I also found this pencil sketch I drew in a book of mine from March 20, 2022–it…

  08/11/2022 4:46 pm

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• An Imagined Room and View, 2

  I sketched this view again, a scene from my imagination I’d shown, and this time I added to the subject and added colored pencils with the pastel (wasn’t a great blend of two mediums for me but I tried). Seeing this, I found a change to make to the subjects. I am finding my way…

  06/13/2022 6:52 am

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• An Imagined Room and View

  A quick sketch I did tonight with my recently found pastel pencils…of a view I’d had in mind for awhile from my imagination…and I am not sure what kind of flowers these are; let me know—they have felt necessary—first time seeing this view of mine in color on paper. I am still envisioning how it…

  06/09/2022 8:06 pm

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• The Sun in My Cup, Draw What You See, A Morning of a Little Creativity

  

  There’s the sun in my cup of green-oolong tea…😊☕️This is a new one I’d tried and I am glad I remembered how much I love green-oolongs; this one’s called Ali Shan. I really like Ti Kuan Yin green-oolong and Golden Flower. I gave myself an assignment with my sketchbook—Pick something, place yourself somewhere (seated or…

  03/14/2022 11:57 am

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