10: Pick (Inktober 2021)

The Nose Picker Poem
(from Mr. R’s World of Math)

There was a boy who picked his nose,
Thought it tasted fine,
Picked for breakfast, lunch and dinner,
Picked it all the time…
Shared his pickings with his friends,
With his parents too,
Shared his pickings with his pets,
They worked a lot like glue…

Picked his nose all through the day,
Picked all through the night,
Never tired of his picking,
Wanna’ take a bite?
One day he stuck his finger in,
So deep inside his snout,
The rest of him got stuck inside,
He never could get out!

Inktober 2021: Days 1-9

Inktober comes but once a year, and it is a lot of fun, too. Ink is the focal point – drawing with it, shading with it. Not only is black ink used, but so is colored. It’s a great time to sit down and just draw with ink, or, what I always do, is to draw from a given prompt.

If you go to Instagram and type in #inktober2021, you can find all sorts of responses to the prompts. People are amazingly creative! Sometimes I feel a bit prosaic and dull, but that varies from drawing to drawing, of course.

1: Crystal

2. Suit – as in Law Suit

3. Vessel

4. Knot

5. Raven

6. Spirit

7. Fan

8. Watch

9. Pressure

If you want to see what I added below the images on my painting-drawing blog, head over to Journey By Paper to see more, or my Instagram account. At Journey By Paper you can enjoy boring commentary or doggerel by yours truly, others, as well as good poetry and song.

8: Watch (Inktober 2021)

Pugsley the Watch Dog

Pugsley the Dog,

Drunk in a fog,

Got busted again,

“Watches for gin!”

Down at the station

With short-lived elation

He offered a few

With hopes for a brew.

“My elbow and wig!”

Cried cops with a jig

“We’ve caught ourselves a thief!”

Pugsley’s hopes came to grief.

Into a cell

At the toll of the bell

The Watch Dog was led

As guilty he pled.

No more do we

As honest and free

Need fear this mighty thug –

The world’s most dangerous pug!