end of february in my corner

 

Since we're well into seventy degree weather around here, we 

decided to go ahead and start our spring veggie garden.

We've had various garden-related ideas for this plot of land over

the past decade, but this is the first time we've actually done more

than the initial turnover. It's been a fun way to work with the kids

and hang out with our community house as a whole.

As you can also see, I met my camera's aperture

setting last week, and we're slowly becoming acquainted. 

sign painting preparations

 Over 6 months ago, I bartered design services with 

a friend. My end of the deal was to paint a lettered 

sign. Since I have been frozen solid when it comes 

to painting, I spent the past six months procrastinating

on this project. Today, however, I pulled out my acrylic

paints and went to town, combining colors for a series of 

test swatches. The lettering style is borrowed from 

Donley & Singh's book called Hand Lettering.

I think it will make for a very festive name plaque!

lilly plant at crave coffee

glass bottle

watercolor and ink, 2" x 1.5"

Hi, there!

I pulled out my watercolors recently

and have started playing with paint again.

It feels really good.

So I guess we'll get some sketches going 

on this sketchblog! Here's a glass lemonade

bottle from Sunflower Market that we've been

using to keep chilled water on hand.