On a recent Draw with Me, we did a series of fast (1-2 min) small (business-card size) sketches. I did mine in watercolour; these were the three I liked best.
draw small with me
Images
jiggity jig
last morning
Hypnales
Rhododendron columbianum
big springs haiku
celebrating place
Kate offered a workshop called Celebrating Place with the Four S’s — Spaces, Senses, Scenes, Souvenirs. I couldn’t attend the class because I was offering my own workshop at the same time, but I used her handout as inspiration to create this spread.
stick painting
Painting with found objects (in this case, sticks) is a great way to loosen up and achieve unexpected marks. And there’s something delightfully meta (no, not that Meta) about using a piece of a tree to paint a tree, with ink made from a tree.
Pterospora andromeda
A new-to-me parasitic plant, discovered at Sand Pond in the Sierra Nevada.
sit spot
On my first evening at Big Springs Garden Retreat Centre, I fell down a set of (carpeted) stairs in the Main House. There’s an odd landing arrangement at the top of the stairs, and I just missed the top step and walked into air. My nose and sternum bore the brunt of the impact. Nothing was broken, and I was very lucky that an EMT witnessed my fall and provided immediate first aid.
I spent the rest of the retreat with a swollen, rug-burned nose, black eyes, and an aching sternum, which I took as reminders to up my proprioception.
