Catching Up On Posting

 Some of the sketches I've been doing with ink, watercolor, and sencils.  The chickens were from a photo on Pixabay, and done as a two page spread.  

Sketches with prepainted backgrounds

 These are some of the pages that I've been playing with this summer.  Watercolor/or acrylic stenciling or prepainted backgrounds with direct pen sketching.  

Glass Animals 2

Another try at the glass animals today.  There were dark shadows and light shadows in the glass, but even though it was a sunny day, not enough to make much in the way of cast shadows.  I had to take artistic license.  Ink and pencil

Sketching at Home During Lockdown

I'm sketching at home while we are all doing "social distancing".  I was inspired by a post by Brenda Swenson in January, where she sketched some little bird figurines, and later did a couple of watercolors of them.  It sparked the idea to get out my little glass bird, and since he doesn't have a mate, I picked up some of his glass friends.  I was okay until the elephant, and then I had trouble figuring out where to put the cat and rabbit.  I eventually found a better arrangement, which I will try to remember to sketch tomorrow.

Two Page Spread in My Sketchbook

Kitchen Amaryllis Garden

My kitchen table looks like a greenhouse right now.  I have three amaryllis plants in various stages of growth.  "Terracotta Star" is a new one, already had two bloomings and surprise - there is another one in the works.  (far right).
"Purple Rain" is another new one, which looks like it was mislabeled, since it is looking decidedly peachy.  (Far left)
And I have attempted to re-bloom one from last year but so far have only gotten leaves.  Usually when you get leaves first there will be no bloom, but I haven't decided what to do with it yet.

This is a sketch that I did of Terracotta Star when it bloomed a couple of weeks ago.

Trying to Sketch Every Day (almost) in May