Would you like my jellyfish? I’m Not sellyfish. – Ogden Nash
Category: drawing
Poinsettia
Another morning with sewing ahead of me – but not too much! Just a touch here and then, thread trimming, ironing, and finally wrapping.
To start my day – after coffee, breakfast, a review, and the news – I decided to use my watercolor pencils, InkTense blocks, and Neocolor II by Caran d’Arche to draw the classical Christmas / holiday poinsettia, and some permanent black ink.
Did you know the red is really the leaf and the little yellow dots in the center are the flowers? Poinsettias are not only crimson, but come in pale pinks and whites. And, they are easy to grow – just take a cutting, let it dry out until hollow, and stick in some dirt, and you may be ready for next year! I think they may also be poisonous . . .
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Shorelines
This morning I saw a photo of a shoreline at dawn. A lake. A sunrise. Twigs. Grasses. Mountains.
I have spent the last two weeks making Christmas presents, sewing mostly, but also baking fruit cakes (brandied and bourboned), and shopping for this or that. Today I have more sewing scheduled, and a few “must do” things.
The fact is, while I love sewing, I love other things as well. I have done little if any drawing or painting.
Why do we get caught up in the “must do” so easily, so easily that the simple pleasure of an hour spent with paper, pen, and ink becomes something of a crime, one so self-indulgent that our Puritan ancestors shake their fingers at us? Pleasure? Nay!
But, I gave in! I’m happier for it!
In the Woods
Inktober is done and gone . . . this past week I’ve been sewing like a fiend, last night there was a mass shooting down the road from us with a thirteen people killed and eighteen wounded – more – there are fires to the east and west of us, and the wind is blowing like crazy. There is peace in ink.
Inktober #31: Slice
Okay! Today is Halloween, a day of gore and horror. Inktober is not making this a “safe” subject for today, either – SLICE! Really? You can get pretty gruesome with that one.
So, with a hail to famous or infamous quotes, a slur on red velvet cake (which I dislike intensely), I bring you a slice of history, a slice of cake, a slice of the macabre, a slice of my own sick sense of humor, and best wishes for a fun and scary Halloween.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 