Thank you

Thank you L - got your message before it 'expired', and appreciate it more than I can express in words.

You want coffee?

The Crone requested a coffee drawing - luckily I had a coffee mug (unfortunately emptied some hours ago) on my desk ...


Thank you for all the lovely comments :) I'm really enjoying this, and wondering why it's taken me so long to get back into it.

I'm a little teapot

I'm still just drawing things on my desk last thing at night, but one step at a time ...

Garden update: Too many weeds, lettuces & other greens going to seed, cold and wet (yay! it's been too dry for too long). Miss Tizz's sweetpeas are growing, and something that looks pea-like has emerged from the strawbales.

Music: I've been making an effort to listen to more music lately - it's another of those things that tend to go by the wayside when I get bogged down in the day-to-day of work & keeping the home & family running. On the ipod now: Rock me Amadeus (Falco), Kiss me (Sixpence None the Richer), Rasputin (Boney M), Bubbly (Colbie Caillat), Somebody told me (The Killers) & Sweet about me (Gabriella Cilmi). If you haven't heard Gabriella Cilmi yet, she's worth a listen.

Learning to scribble

I need to learn to scribble again. By day (and usually far too late into the night), I design newsletters and posters and work on websites and so on. It's generally pretty precise & clean and neat. And I'm a bit of a perfectionist in that respect. But I want to get my head into a different space and work with a pencil instead of a software program, and touch paper instead of staring at a screen. The transition from one to the other is something I find difficult, which is a large part of why I haven't drawn in a long time.

It's late, and I need sleep, but I was determined to draw something today ...

Drawing

I used to draw. A lot. And paint. And then life got busier and it fell by the wayside. But a few weeks ago I was procrastinating about work and trawling around the 'net when I came across book illustrator's site that grabbed my attention with the simplicity of its drawings and the expressions on the faces of the characters. I didn't note what the site was, and I can't find it again, but I picked up a pencil & made a few little sketches that have a vague resemblance to my daughter (at least the one of her asleep with her thumb in her mouth!).

Of course the X-man & Miss Tizz had to draw too, so below is a crayon drawing of our family by the X-man (still aged 4 at the time, and my! doesn't mummy have long legs?!) ...



... and a pencil drawing of happy mummy, cranky mummy & sleeping mummy by Miss Tizz (aged 6 - note the wrist, knee & ankle joints) ...


... and my sketches ...

I'm going to try to draw something every day, to get back into the habit. I can't guarantee they'll all make it here, but hopefully you'll see some improvement over time in the ones that do make it.