Mer-Angel of my dreams

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Me: Apparently it's Mermaid Week at my house

Bob Mackenzie: Like a mermaid-angel, and ginger to boot. What more could you possibly ask for?

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About Kathy & the Leftys

Kathy Crabbe is an artist and energy reader living in sunny SoCal with her husband and pet muses, Abby the big, shaggy black dog and Djinn Djinn the small, scruffy one in an adobe home they built themselves.

Kathy is painting a Lefty-a-Day for 365 days (The 52 Project) and posting all works in-progress daily on Instagram and weekly here.

Week 6 of The 52 Project ~ First Open Studio

Writer. Artist. Words as important as images in my work.

Attended the first Open Studio for The 52 Project.

While hanging out in the Artist's Room I longed for the Writers Room. I longed for the quiet, the introspection, the written word, the self-examination. To me, this is sacred. The Artist's Room was N-O-I-S-Y! Piercing whistles could not get their attention. What was I doing here? I did manage to share my Lefty journal with others and take a look at some other journals. After a bit I left and headed over to the Writer's Room where I could breathe again. One room for extroverts and one for introverts. Interesting.

During these 52 weeks I am not defining myself or focusing on art sales/marketing. I am free. We'll see where it leads.

Week 6 Leftys

About Kathy & the Leftys

Kathy Crabbe is an artist and energy reader living in sunny SoCal with her husband and pet muses, Abby the big, shaggy black dog and Djinn Djinn the small, scruffy one in an adobe home they built themselves.

Kathy is painting a Lefty-a-Day for 365 days (The 52 Project) and posting all works in-progress daily on Instagram and weekly here.

Love is for Candy Asses (Daily Drawing: Day 6)

Kathy Crabbe, Love is for Candy Asses, 2013, ink, marker & gouache on paper, 5 x 7”

Original, cards & prints available at: http://www.kathycrabbe.com

Daily Drawings Day 2 & 3: Vampires, Seth Godin & Forgiveness

Kathy Crabbe, There's gotta be more to this than you're letting on, 2013, ink & gouache on paper, 5 x 7”.

Kathy Crabbe, Can you forgive me? 2013, ink, pastel & gouache on paper, 5 x 7”.

Originally I started writing this blog post in response to Seth Godin's newest book The Icarus Deception (which I spedread at the bookstore, is that a word?) but found that I had nothing of real importance to say about it, although I do recommend it 'cause if you haven't read Seth yet, you should; he's helped millions of people with their marketing mindset plus he's entertaining. But I'm letting my Daily Drawings speak the hard truths for me so that I don't have to do it in my blog posts. Why?  For several reasons:

1. I don't like whingers (Scottish term for whiners) although cartoon whingers are different somehow...hmmm.
2. I like to support  fellow writers.
3. If you've got nothing good to say then keep your mouth shut (works for me!)

Maybe this new series of Daily Drawings should be called Hard Truths, but I'm not deciding anything yet although I am adhering to Seth's advice to blog daily, but with style and grace and a minimum of whinging. HA.

NEWS FLASH: I just changed my Facebook fan page name to Kathy Crabbe Art so come check me out!

The original 5 x 7 inch drawings pictured above  can be purchased on my website: http://www.kathycrabbe.com/art/

What's a geek-ey, extroverted artist from small-town Southern Ontario, Canada to DO in the countryside of Southern Cali for fun?

Yup, that's right...I draw...people, faces, figures, cartoons to keep me company, & lots of em! You can check them out here: Lefties Aliens Goddesses Fairies Mermaids Cartoons (new)

**To purchase prints or originals please click here for my Etsy Shop.