Even when I sit down to quickly sketch a mundane domestic moment, I’m learning something. Hopefully, a few months down the line, what I’ve learned will be fully integrated. This is a journey, and having this blog is keeping me on a path.

I’ve been losing track of time these last few days. Time to pay attention to a calendar! So I sketched this retro one. But, by itself, it makes a pretty boring sketch. 

It took a couple of sessions to do this watercolour sketch. Lots to learn… watercolour is a very satisfying but challenging medium.

Seashells, collected from various places, in one of the pieces from my McCoy collection. Not sure what it would have been used for. And it is rather an odd thing, but I like it. And the shells look pretty in it. Though that may not come across here. Seashells have a delicate appearance, and at the same time are hard as rock.

What is it? Well, sweet potatoes. It is with good reason these tubers don’t appear in still life artworks. Their odd shapes aren’t exactly aesthetically pleasing.

Spent much of today at the MacLeod curling bonspiel which includes nonstop Scots music and dancing by local musicians and dancers from age 5 to 75. I decided to try my hand at quick sketches of some of them. When you haven’t drawn people in a while, your eye/hand gets rusty. 

Another indoor sketch of everyday things.

Outdoors it has been as grey as this drawing. 

But an interesting thing to draw, with all its curves and knobs.

A scene from the edge of the small town where I live, based on a recent photo. It was the drama of the sky over the simple buildings that caught my eye at the time.

And with this sketch I’ve finally filled a sketchbook started years ago.