Some doodles and a challenge

We are finally getting a rainy weekend here in Silicon Valley, which means I have a really good excuse to stay home and paint.  I have decided it's time for me to catch up on the EDM list.  I am vowing to complete at least 6 challenges this weekend.  Here's the first:

I broke my awesome pair of glasses about 2 weeks ago and here they are now, in pieces.  Thank goodness I have my old pair!

I have had to sit through a lot of meetings and classes lately and when I get bored (which is often at these things) I doodle.  This set of post-it art was from a particularly long training. The training should have been done in 45 minutes and was amazingly stretched to 2 1/2 hours!

Not the best work, but I kinda surprised myself on the gazebo- the bottom half doesn't look that bad... the top is hot mess, but I can just call it abstract and get away with it :-)  Each is of a different part of Bellingham, Washington: the gazebo and tree are from Elizabeth Park, the waterfall is the diving basin in Whatcom Falls State Park, and the last is my reoccurring favorite- the view from Marine Park.

Speaking of which, the class I'm taking for continuing education credits has been taxing at best- a class of 18 year olds "discussing" literature they didn't bother to read will do that. So I took the opportunity to draw my (apparently) favorite scene...

I think this one came out nice... the people sitting directly next to me in class seemed to think so too :-)  I really think that art should make you happy when you see it (even if the subject matter is sad) and *this* makes me happy.