Angela Marie Morton: art & illustration

Snippets: a series of brief summaries describing what I have been working on recently, plus a few personal tidbits. Finished Works Harold Pitt pastel pencils Mouse in Bamboo Forest Pencil Minimalist Crane in Flight Brush pen Works in Progress Cranes in Flight (Currently untitled)   New in the Shop (Click to purchase) Japanese Boatman with Cranes at Sunset Red-Crowned Cranes Series 04 Zen Flowers in Vase Projects and Updates Due to a brutal heatwave here in the Pacific Northwest, it has been a fairly unproductive week and a half, or so. I read A LOT, and spent time dreaming of days when I could get outside again. These recent photos I took at a nearby park helped to get me through. Sketchbook No surprise, I've had the ocean on my mind. Little Harold took a trip there, even if I did not. Reading The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali The Last Battle (book #7 in the originally published order) of The Chronicles of Narnia , by C.S. Lewis The Ramayana A Short History of Monks and Monasteries ,

Snippets: a series of brief summaries describing what I have been working on recently, plus a few personal tidbits. Finished Works My husband likes my pencil sketches, so this first piece is one I did for him for our 22nd wedding anniversary last month. He is British, and we are both big tea drinkers.  Mice Having Afternoon Tea Pencil   Japanese Boatman with Cranes at Sunset Brush pen and pencil   Works in Progress Mouse in Bamboo Forest Bunny on Moon Swing (now in the shop!) In progress photo of Boatman piece above   New in the Shop (Click to purchase) Bunny on Moon Swing Buddhist Monk with Japanese Maple Projects and Updates July's blog is up! It talks about the challenges of being a quiet and calm artist in a noisy and aggressive world. You can read the piece here .  We are in the midst of a heatwave, so I have set aside doing any artwork (aside from some sketching), as we keep our blinds closed and lights off to try to keep cool. In the meantime, I am ramping up submitting my