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Laura Salamy
@lsalami.bsky.social
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Fiber artist, dog lover, high desert dweller. Rug Hooking and punch needle rug hooking instructor. Website: highonhooking.com.
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
Bowyn very much at home
Pen, marker, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a Welsh Springer spaniel sleeping on his back, very comfortable.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
Amsterdam street
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of Amsterdam homes.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
Deteriorating, 12th Century, French Chateau
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of deteriorating castle from the 12th century.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
PLATT FARM PRESERVE, SOUTHBURY, CT
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of red barns of a farm, rolling, green hills.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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All ready for tomorrow's NM Arts & Crafts Festival at UNM Continuing Ed. Here's some uniquely NM "stuff." As for the chiles, if you know, you know. Bowyn knows...
Ourschedule:
-UNM Continuing Ed Arts & Crafts Festival (11/8)
-High Desert Studio Tour (11/5)
-Santa Fe Fiber Fiesta (11/21-23)
Small hooked rug (wall haning) depicting a red and a green chile with the word OR between them. Small hooked rug depicting a hot air balloon flying just above trees and shrubbery. Small hooked rug of a cartoonish roadrunner. Welsh Springer spaniel with his head resting on 3 small hooked rugs.
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
OUR HOUSE...
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Childish sketch of a house with 2 cats in the yard...
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Bowyn shows off a few finished pieces ready for Saturday...
Three shows coming up here in New Mexico this month.
November 8 - NM Arts & Crafts Festival at NM Continuing Ed
November 15 - High Desert Studio Tour in Albuquerque
November 21-23 - @evfac_ Santa Fe Fiber Arts Festival
#highonhooking
Dog resting his chin on small hooked rugs.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
HOME PLATE
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Quick sketch of a baseball diamond.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
HOME ALONE
Pen, marker, colored pencils
Continuous line drawing, mostly blind

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Blind, continuous line sketch of Kevin from HOME ALONE movie.
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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NM peeps and visitors! High on Hooking is again participating in:
-UNM Continuing Ed Arts & Crafts Festival 11/8
-High Desert Studio Tour 11/15
-Santa Fe Fiber Fiesta 11/23
Come and buy some art for your friends, your family, yourself...
Mention this post and get a 10% discount in our booths.
Poster created to inform about 3 art festivals I'm doing in November. Included text and 3 info posters.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch: Heritage Farm Farmhouse (Albuquerque Biopark Botanic Garden)
Pen, watercolors, pencil

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a reproduction adobe farmhouse.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
"Hornu Oven," mud-adobe, outdoor oven used by Mative Americans and early settlers in the Southwest US; still used in NM and AZ today.
Pen, colored pencils
Continuous line drawing
#dailysketching #crosstraining #continuouslinedrawing #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Sketch of a horn oven.
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
Manhattan, Kansas (1986-1988)
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a 3-story apartment building; sidewalk and trees too
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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On this Day of the Dead, we honor and miss Tynan. (Bowyn keeps trying to scarf down that treat...)

#dayofthedead #tynan #welshspringerspaniel #dayofthedeadaltar #highonhooking
Mantle of fireplace containing a tiny pumpkin surrounded by an old dog collar. A dog treat is nearby along with a lit up Talavera pumpkin pottery piece. Dog portrait also nearby on the wall. Is an offrenda for a deceased dog.
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Tonight's HOME Sketch:
A BOWYN WELCOME
Pen, markers, colored pencils
Continuous line drawing, partially blind

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a spaniel in front of a front door with a lot of fall decoations: pumpkins, leafy wreath, scarecrow, mum's, etc. Spaniel in front of a front door with a lot of fall decoations: pumpkins, leafy wreath, scarecrow, mum's, etc.
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Tonight's HALLOWEEN Sketch
Talavera Jack o'Lantern
Inktober sketch: Pen, markers
Continuous line drawing
#inktober #inktober25
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #travelsketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a Talavera (pottery) Jack o'lantern. (Crappy) photo of a little jack o'lantern in the dark.
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Update 4: Stained glass in textiles...
Three shows coming up here in New Mexico in November.
November 8 - NM Arts & Crafts Festival at NM Continuing Ed
November 15 - High Desert Studio Tour in Albuquerque
November 21-23 - @evfac_ Santa Fe Fiber Arts Festival
#hookedart
#hookedrugs #newmexicoart
Tiny hooked rug with jewel colors; looks like stained glass.
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Tonight's INKTOBER Sketch: VACANT
(in New Mexico)
Inktober sketch: Pen, colored pencils
Mostly blind contour line drawing

#inktober #inktober25

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of an old, abandoned house in the high desert of New Mexico.
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Update 3: Little mats in the making... 3 shows coming up soon.
Nov 8 - NM Arts & Crafts Festival at NM Continuing Ed
Nov 15 - High Desert Studio Tour in Albuquerque
Nov 21-23 - Santa Fe Fiber Arts Festival
#hookedart #rughooking #newmexicoartist #holidayshopping #handmadegifts #highonhooking
Orange flower on tiny mat: hooked with various fibers. Tiny "stained glass" mat; hooked with various fibers.
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Tonight's INKTOBER Sketch: LESSON
"Learning how to beg."
Inktober sketch: Pen, colored pencils
Continuous line drawing.
#inktober #inktober25
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #travelsketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of two Welsh Springer spaniels spaniels looking intently at something. (We know it must be food or food-like.)
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Tonight's INKTOBER Sketch: SKELETAL
Forest Shelter
Inktober sketch: Pen, colored pencils
#inktober #inktober25
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #travelsketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a forest shelter made of sticks and branches; teepee-shaped. Surrounded by trees.
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Tonight's INKTOBER Sketch: ONION
Inktober sketch: Pen, markers
Mostly blind contour line drawing
#inktober #inktober25
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #travelsketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a red onion.
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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OOPS! Forgot to post last night.

Tonight's INKTOBER Sketch: PUZZLING
Inktober sketch: Pen, markers
#inktober #inktober25
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #travelsketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of Wordle puzzle.
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Update 2...
Working, working, working. 3 shows coming up here in New Mexico in November. Watch for more info.
#hookedart #rughooking
#hookedrug #hookedrugs
#repurposedtextiles #recycledart #repurposedart #contemporaryfiberart #contemporaryrughooking ##newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking
Small hooked rug of sunflower-like flowers in Yellowstone and reds. Green background.
October 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Tonight's INKTOBER Sketch: INFERNO
Based on outdoor pizza oven at @casarondenawinery in #Albuquerque where we had dinner.
Inktober sketch: Pen, colored pencils, Posca Pen
Mostly blind contour sketch
#inktober #inktober25 #sketching #crosstraining
#newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Sketch of a pizza oven.
October 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM