Ended Official BYC Mini Contest - "WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY?"

[PouleChick]

That's an ingenious way to announce a new little one on the way...very cute!

Thank you

 

[silkiemother]

this relates to my first entry and this is also one of the ways I cheer my mom up.... and also cleaning my room, I just got finished getting every thing re-arranged and I took out about ten bags of trash

 

[h2oratt]

<sigh>. I know, I know.....but I saw some at an exhibition show oh, probably about 1979 or so, (I might have the year wrong, but I do remember that they weren’t accepted into the Miscellaneous Class in the AKC yet) and they were so perky. All 3 of them watched their owner and were totally prepared to turn themselves inside out if she even whispered the command. Folks think Goldens and Border Collies are eager to please? I’d never seen anything like these little show offs! I LOVE your hobby!

Thank you. Yes they got accepted in 1985. They were almost extinct in Portugal. After their civil war there were only a few left.

 

[h2oratt]

Most of my hobbies are arts and crafts related. There are SO MANY THINGS that I love doing, but my first passion in life was drawing... think I started when I was old enough to hold a crayon. My parents used to enter me in coloring contests and I always took art classes in school. I really meant to go to college, but life happened, dance clubs, horses and other stuff... and after 20 years of being a florist and shop manager, I lost my job unexpectedly.

My husband and I had been trying to have a baby for years, but my workload and holiday stress level never seemed to allow it. Losing my job felt like the worst thing in the world just happened, but turned out to be the best. Unemployment paid for me to go back to school full time for graphic design. Shortly after I started school, (approaching 40 years old) I got pregnant! Then my hubby got his dream job. Anyway, after I had this lovely sweet baby girl growing up without me at the babysitter's, I never did finish my degree... just decided to be a stay at home mom.
Oh well.

Hobby #1 is Drawing

My favorite media to work with was pencil and watercolor, I think because they could be erased or easily manipulated as the work progressed. These are from junior high school.
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My first and only attempt at drawing anything mechanical. At the time, my husband owned a Triumph Daytona 675 (his pride and joy) so I drew this for an anniversary gift -with a mechanical pencil.
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Then I discovered charcoal, another easy-to-work-with medium, but very messy. This is a large drawing and I also used a white chalk pencil.
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Here's that sweet little girl I was talking about. She was the focus of many of my school projects.
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mixed media: charcoal, graphite, pen and ink.
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not a drawing, but I had to draw the outline before I could cut it out of paper.
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The following are a few sketches from last year. I tried doing a couple drawing challenges which required a new drawing for every day of the month.

October's challenge was called "Inktober" and was supposed to be ink only, which I never had the confidence to really try before, but I pushed through. Each drawing was based on a specific prompt word for the day. I used Sharpie, sometimes ink washes with a brush, various ink pens and also some tinted markers.
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"Huevember" could be any medium, just a dominant color based on a different shade every day from a color wheel containing 30 colors for the month of November. By this point I became pretty fond of ink, and most of these drawings were ink and colored pencil.
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I know this post is getting really long but I just have to share this... because I also love coloring in coloring books and it's something my daughter and I can do together. My favorite books are by Johanna Basford.
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This lovely author periodically has world-wide coloring contests, so we entered one on a whim. This competition was for the release of her new book "Ivy and the Inky Butterfly." She's based in the UK and has a beautiful website.
These are my entries
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And my 6 year old daughter Emily's entries
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So as it turned out, Emily was one of 5 winners!
She won an enormous gift pack of art supplies and a personal note from Johanna Basford herself. Talk about a proud moment!
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Wow you are very talented!

 

[Blooie]

Thank you. Yes they got accepted in 1985. They were almost extinct in Portugal. After their civil war there were only a few left.

Very much the same story with my Flat Coated Retrievers. At the end of WW 2, there were very few left in Great Britain,

 

[silkiemother]

time to start back up the indoor-not-outside-in-the-cold hobbies!

 

[R2elk]

time to start back up the indoor-not-outside-in-the-cold hobbies!

Some people love their outdoor snow hobbies.

 

[silkiemother]

I don't mind snow or cold weather..until it gets into your clothes and melts...or freezes stuff shut

 

[SniperGoose]

My hobby entry #1 is photography! I first fell in love with photography when I was required to take a photography course in college for my major. After graduating, I saved up enough money to buy a DSLR camera - Canon EOS 70D. I started out as a hobbyist, but I do make some money on the side with it now sometimes. My most recent job was some wedding photography. Though animals/landscapes are my absolute favorite subjects to photograph! I've learned a lot about photography, and I look forward to learning more and more over time! Here are some of my favorites I've taken:

 

[N F C]

My hobby entry #1 is photography! I first fell in love with photography when I was required to take a photography course in college for my major. After graduating, I saved up enough money to buy a DSLR camera - Canon EOS 70D. I started out as a hobbyist, but I do make some money on the side with it now sometimes. My most recent job was some wedding photography. Though animals/landscapes are my absolute favorite subjects to photograph! I've learned a lot about photography, and I look forward to learning more and more over time! Here are some of my favorites I've taken:

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Beautiful photos!