Lisa Mertins’ Life Illustrated » 2008 » March

Just Beyond My Reach

Sometimes, my friend Amy and I talk about drawing the perfect character, selling out and becoming millionaires. I have dibs on the hedgehog*. They’re adorable and they can be potty trained! Maybe I’ll start a list of coveted items that would be impossible to have. Not a long list, five things max. World peace not [...]

Sketchbook

This is the first page of my almost-filled-up sketchbook. I was self-conscious then, never having kept one in earnest and boy, it shows. Pretentious and ill-conceived, I rambled about with random drawings and occasional conceptualizations for assignments. This ochre colored, leather-bound, Italian made book that I found for $5.00 gave me a great feeling when [...]

Saturday Night And I’m Reading Poetry

Suzanne The Adorable*

My friend Suzanne Broughton who’s an expert blogger and Funny Girl has started a Register column called Alive In Wonderland for the Orange County Register. Suz has great takes on living in the upside down reality of the country’s nuttiest county, is a genuine OC Housewife and reading her work makes me nostalgic for my [...]

Pet Peeve

Now, I’m the first person to use cuss words, particularly one that starts with f — IN context. But it bugs like heck when those words are used to fill quiet spaces or as punctuation. Lazy and unimaginative is my opinion of cuss words out of context. oops! Just found out only one entry per [...]