
I think this one needs some more color especially when you compare it to the next one...drawn with a pigma pen(see it on the bottom of the left page) and colored pencils...well i colored it after i filled the page up!!! really i did! I havent outgrown coloring books yet...and ink sketches just scream at me to color them!!!
Dan Cook's How to make a journal of your life(would someone please tell me where his kids were when he was wandering the country sketching and living in a teepee)....i got this idea to draw all the things that i used today...not to do serious sketching but just doodle them and journal about them in odd letters...a collection of my day!
...by 9 am i had filled up a page...who knew you used so many things??? By 4 pm despite that i spent THREE hours weeding and planting flowers i had filled up the other page...this is what i drew...
NO i have not started a third page BUTTT i drew some of the animals i saw today...

This started because i saw two deer on the far side of the river bank EARLY this morning in the edge of the woods...a fisherman scared them off but NOT before i took their picture...thats why the camera is in the first sketch page...luckily for me I saw two more birds AFTER i finished this page....a swift and a fast flyer...a hawk or a large crow...too far away to tell... I am a TERRIBLE drawer of birds!!!! but these were fun...i found a bumble bee and a wasp on the floor BOTH dead while i was cleaning up the porch and making the bed this morning...so i threw them in...they count...they are animals even if they are dead.
i rescued two lizards from the cat...he thinks the back porch is his hunting preserve...and no matter how many times i catch the chameleons he always finds another...we have quite a few with broken tails ...i catch them wherever he puts them and stick them outside hopefully to grow a new tail.
AND NO I am NOT drawing all those plants i planted today!!! really not today not now!!!
i rescued two lizards from the cat...he thinks the back porch is his hunting preserve...and no matter how many times i catch the chameleons he always finds another...we have quite a few with broken tails ...i catch them wherever he puts them and stick them outside hopefully to grow a new tail.
AND NO I am NOT drawing all those plants i planted today!!! really not today not now!!!
5 comments:
Really fun pages - quite the visual journal of your day!
Thank for leaving a comment Maggie, havent been to your page for ages, love what you are doing, I have been making books too, but really like the idea of drawing all the things you did in a day. Must try that some time.
Wow! What great pages...both are so filled to the brim with energy and activity! Whew! :)
You did get a lot done today didn't you?! It's amazing what all gets done in a day. Jazz & Charlie are especially cute!!
Love the pages, Margaret! I wondered the same thing about Dan's kids, too. And as a fellow-Dad I wondered how could he leave those responsibilities? But, I still love his work. Great idea to capture the daily consumables! And the candidness of the toilet paper, too. Honesty. Critters are on my list to attempt. I like your collection.
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