Fountain pen, then scanned and colored in Photoshop.

Did you know that Violet is the state flower of Rhode Island?

From a perfect morning at #the_ibis_wilpattu in Wilpattu NP to the coast for our last few days in Kalpitiya staying at Palagama Beach Hotel where we enjoyed a few loveley sunsets.

#palagamabeachhotel #instatravel #instaphoto #adventure #rejuvenate #regenarate #everydaymatters #beautyofnature #takeabreak #sunsets #wanderlustmag #sunsetsofinstagram #instapassport #mytravelgram #palagamabeach #srilanka #beach

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A small china bowl from a calligraphy set.

From a perfect morning at #the_ibis_wilpattu in Wilpattu NP to the coast for our last few days in Kalpitiya staying at Palagama Beach Hotel where we enjoyed a few loveley sunsets.

#palagamabeachhotel #instatravel #instaphoto #adventure #rejuvenate #regenarate #everydaymatters #beautyofnature #takeabreak #sunsets #wanderlustmag #sunsetsofinstagram #instapassport #mytravelgram #palagamabeach #srilanka #beach

Here is my bowl. (This is my very favorite Flo Greig pottery. I have a zillion pieces .. and I'm not done yet.)

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Clementines I begged off of my friend Sharon at lunch today.

Jan 14, 2020

Sketching my coffee table while watching Jeopardy Champions.

Stillman & Birn Delta 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

I blogged about it here:

sketchitall.blogspot.nl/2016/10/boerenjongens.html

A special journal page. 😃 A self-portrait after a long time... then I collaged the background with an image of me as a baby; and stuff on my table.

EVERY DAY in MAY

Day 21- The spot you regularly sit to read.

This certainly is a reading spot I have for decades.

W&N watercolor, Uniball Vision pen, Dr. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Watercolor, Strathmore watercolor art journal.

Here are my other months.

Can you see the little lacewing on the branch? It's on a native Hawaiian ohia tree. Blogged at drawingonnature.blogspot.com/

Here's this week's challenge to draw a basket. This looked better a few dabs before the end .. but no matter, red geraniums are always cheery! A bit too much watercolor with Sepia Pigma Micron in the wc Moleskine. Oddly enough I was inspired to do the same thing a year ago with this one:

www.flickr.com/photos/the_happy_learner/2316564052/in/set...

This is the closest thing I have to a houseplant right now (my poinsettia bit the dust :-) . . . these little test tube vases look pretty cheery on the window ledge of my bathroom, filled with English ivy.

Watercolor, sketched in my HandBook journal. Drawn from life.

Handbook square journal; ink and watercolor pencil.

As I only have Maldon sea salt and pepper corns in the herb cupboard, I picked some fresh rosemary for today's challenge.

Everyday Matters 165 is to draw the front of your house. Ours sits happily, on a hill, surrounded by a couple dozen native oak trees :-)

Watercolor, in my fabulous journal from Carol.

Every Day in May #06

A timepiece - um relógio

My pocketwatch detail - Detalhe do meu relógio de bolso

‪#‎EDiM‬, ‪#‎EDinMay‬

Lunch!

Inspired by Startbackat's wonderful drawings of all the meals that she eats.

I must confess, I ate this way before I could finish drawing it.

Our last few days on the coast were at Palagama Beach Hotel, Kalpitiya. We had a trail of ants walking across a path outside our cottage. Parts of the day when the sun was at the right angle the ants cast huge shadows. It was damn difficult to get a close up shot without a macro lens and it was uncomfortably hot.

Ran out of room on the paper again... Drat! My first attempt at a bird.

I drew this from Dr. Pat's cool photo. Check it out!

www.flickr.com/photos/patrickwilken/112940923/

Dave playing Trivial Pursuit at Earth Lodge - near Antigua, Guatemala.

I think I'd make more phonecalls if we still had a telephone like this one.

. . . that's Everyday Matters Challenge #280, and here's my something (someone), my daughter . . . 1,296 miles away (I just googled it :-). She "comes home" as often as possible, though!!!

Painted with watercolors, small moleskine.

La Fortuna Hotel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

drawing - coloured pencil

writting - Pigma Micron 08

Explore - May,24,2012 #29

This was a very fast sketch to capture two challenges - to draw a flag and to draw something summery. Putting out the provincial and national flags and the hanging baskets on the front porch are sure signs of summer at our house. I feel relaxed just looking at them! Watercolor and sepia Pigma Micron in the wc Moleskine. I resisted the urge to do more on this one. Just sketched and filled in with color in one swoop. I thought it should be "sketchy" to truly reflect summer.

I think my little bunny Layla is the definition of cute, but then, I'm pretty biased. :) Blogged at drawingonnature.blogspot.com/

Day - 7 - An envelope

When much younger, I, to improve my English, used corresponding with people from many countries. The postman had to come to my door every day and I loved receiving letters from distant friends since the icy Finland to the far Nigeria. I also had pen pals in every Brazilian state from North to South.

Today, in the virtual era, the letters have given way to e-mails and other messages via internet. A pity, I guess, because we lost the exciting and pleasure to welcome a beautiful envelope with artistic stamps that tell a little history of the places they come from.

( real stamps were glued on the drawing)

Well, this was wet-in-wet fun from an article in the March 2008 Leisure Painter magazine by Alan Oliver titled "Wet in Wet." Could have a bit more value in this, but decided to sleep on it.

Day 29 - a faucet

As we are in a period of water saving because of low reservoir levels that supply my city and neighborhoods, the theme faucet led me to think about water and its vital importance to our planet.