Free Digi Sketch: Red-tailed Hawk on Branch

Good morning friends! It's Monday and for the first time in a few months
I have another Digi Sketch to share with you today!

It's been awhile but I'm slowly working on scheduling these so that I don't forget. :)

 

This sketch is of a red-tailed hawk perched on a branch.

Those who know me know I love all birds, and falcons and other raptors

are certainly no exception.

There's a wonderful raptor center within about an hour's drive of here.

When Robin and Jay are old enough, I'd like to start them

in a volunteer program there as part of their homeschool biology.

Volunteering opportunities are one of the best ways to teach

service, responsibility, and new skills that otherwise could not be learned

in a classroom or just on field trips. 

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You are welcome to use these sketches for your projects, but all I ask is that

1) You do not try to pass off my artwork as your own and

2) Please link back to me on your posts or projects. Images are still copyright to me, Kathryn Ritter. 3) I would love to see your projects as well; please come back and link them up so that we can all see YOUR work! :)

Also, when you are telling others about my free sketches, please use the watermarked image below for display and provide a link back to the main Digi Sketch page--THANK YOU!

As I add more sketches to the collection, you'll be able to find them using the tab at the top of the page. I hope you will keep checking back or follow so you won't miss any new sketches as I make them available. My goal is to share with my fellow crafters so the more the merrier! :)

Have a great day!

Update and Free Digi Sketch: Elephant 1

After a very VERY long hiatus from this blog, I've decided to post more of my digital sketches as I can, as there are still plenty more to share.  Much has changed for our family over these couple of years and will continue to, as it does for all of us.  My card-making passion fed naturally into a business on Etsy that became so busy for me that even with help I just could not keep up.  Aspen Arts is on hold as well currently while I try to really focus on maximizing the golden years with our boys.  I do sell artwork at our local regional visitor's center, but I have not taken any custom scratch-art portraiture commissions in awhile now.  For now I truly enjoy our days filled with homeschooling, gardening, reading/writing and sewing/quilting  More on those adventures in my more recent blog,

The Gardener's Thread

I'll be hosting a giveaway there shortly to announce some more interesting developments.  I also have been having quite the studio cleanout around here, making room and getting realistic about just how much potential I can keep just sitting around waiting on my crazy schedule when someone else could be enjoying it right now!  So there will be a couple of studio cleanout giveaways quite soon, here and on the Thread.
 

And, well?  What about that promised digi sketch?

This sketch is an elephant in semi-profile.  The elephants we saw on our recent zoo trip were so clever.  It was getting towards feeding/closing time and they were right up at the gate trying to unlatch it with their trunks.  We were quite impressed.

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You are welcome to use these sketches for your projects, but all I ask is that

1) You do not try to pass off my artwork as your own and

2) Please link back to me on your posts or projects. Images are still copyright to me, Kathryn Ritter. 3) I would love to see your projects as well; please come back and link them up so that we can all see YOUR work! :)

Also, when you are telling others about my sketches, please use the watermarked image below for display and provide a link back to the main Digi Sketch page--THANK YOU!

As I add more sketches to the collection, you'll be able to find them using the tab at the top of the page. I hope you will keep checking back or follow so you won't miss any new sketches as I make them available. My goal is to share with my fellow crafters so the more the merrier! :)

Have a great day!

Free Digi Sketch: Origami Peace Crane

Good morning friends! It's Monday and I have another Digi Sketch to share with you today!

This sketch is of an origami peace crane.  Since this Wednesday, September 21st is the International Day of Peace, I wanted to share with you a symbol and story of peace.

If you are not familiar with the story of Sadako Sasaki and the paper peace cranes yet, I highly recommend it.  You can find it in most public libraries and the illustrations are as beautiful as the story itself.  You can find a website about the story geared towards children at the Hiroshima Peace Museum's website, and also as a free pdf:  "The Story of the Peace Crane".
There is a Japanese legend that goes that if a person folded a thousand paper cranes, he or she would receive their wish.
Sadako Sasaki was a young girl in Japan who loved to run.  However she became sick with leukemia from the Hiroshima atomic bomb radiation.  After she got sick, she started to fold cranes with the wish that she would get better and run again, but she never made it to one thousand.  She passed away at age 12, to the shock of her class.  They finished her thousand paper cranes.
Today, schoolchildren all over the world send thousands of paper cranes to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan, where the cranes adorn a statue of Sadako Sasaki, a heroine of peace for the whole world, reminding us of the cost of peace--both in conflict and in the aftermath.
If you are interested in folding cranes with your own children, you can find directions on how to fold them and and details of where to send them HERE.

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You are welcome to use these sketches for your projects, but all I ask is that

1) You do not try to pass off my artwork as your own and

2) Please link back to me on your posts or projects. Images are still copyright to me, Kathryn Ritter. 3) I would love to see your projects as well; please come back and link them up so that we can all see YOUR work! :)

Also, when you are telling others about my free sketches, please use the watermarked image below for display and provide a link back to the main Digi Sketch page--THANK YOU!

As I add more sketches to the collection, you'll be able to find them using the tab at the top of the page. I hope you will keep checking back or follow so you won't miss any new sketches as I make them available. My goal is to share with my fellow crafters so the more the merrier! :)

Have a great day!

Free Digi Sketch: Single Cherry with Leaf

Good morning!  It's Monday and I have a new free digital sketch to share with you!

This sketch is of a single cherry with a leaf.  I hope to start posting my samples using these sketches soon but things have been rather hectic of late.

If you're a fan of cherries and sentiments to go with these images, I would really suggest you look at the wonderful Flourishes set by Marcella Hawley.  It is just beautiful.  However, if you just want a single cherry image, I do hope you enjoy this one too.

Click on image to view and save full-size.

File is in .jpg format

You are welcome to use these sketches for your projects, but all I ask is that

1) You do not try to pass off my artwork as your own and

2) Please link back to me on your posts or projects. Images are still copyright to me, Kathryn Ritter. 3) I would love to see your projects as well; please come back and link them up so that we can all see YOUR work! :)

Also, when you are telling others about my free sketches, please use the watermarked image below for display and provide a link back to the main Digi Sketch page--THANK YOU!

As I add more sketches to the collection, you'll be able to find them using the tab at the top of the page. I hope you will keep checking back or follow so you won't miss any new sketches as I make them available. My goal is to share with my fellow crafters so the more the merrier! :)

Have a great day!