leaning bulb

Idle doodling, then it seemed to take an onion shape. I've been planting tulips, maybe that's the image source.

Pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.

draped cat

With a fountain pen, I caught the cat napping here. Then I filled in color, happy to have the pen ink blur into shading.

There's clearly a disconnect in the human leg. Oh, well. Catching the cat was my point.

Noodler's ink and w/c on Moleskine w/c paper.

gesso pools

I gessoed a journal page, splotched on horizontal streaks of thin w/c, finger-rubbed them vertically, then dabbed to intensify color areas. I spiraled the green on (blue/yellow on the brush, mixed on the paper), which landed in small pools and runs.

Working in the journal is a daily delight. And I can enjoy whatever comes out when I'm enjoying the spontaneous process.

W/c on ProArt gesso.

layered leaf

I rarely attempt slow, layered watercolor glazing. I'd rather work fast and let the fluid flow, encouraging surprises to happen.

But fast-application doesn't capture autumn leaf imagery very well. This is a vain attempt to layer transparent paints into an impression of fall colors. Imaginary leaf shape!

M. Graham paints on Moleskine w/c paper.

wrist warmers, too

I finished the second pair of warmers from the Hacho yarn. These are short, a simple ribbed pattern (30 stitches on size 4 dpns.).

I finished by switching to a narrow horizontal band at the wrist, alternating 2 knit rows, 2 purl rows (twice), then binding off.

And enough yarn left for Chaucer to play with, too.

onion and nail chopping

I was chopping onions and managed to slice off a fingernail without too much flesh.

Two days after the event, it looks worse than it feels, but I'm not looking forward to the growing-out process.

Used green and red w/c to create the feeling in a few strokes, on journal paper.

still blooming

November 5 and I have an outside geranium still blooming, with buds to come!

Herbs are still available for cutting, too.

That's how warm it's been in NH this fall.

meditation is like this

Noodler's ink and w/c on journal paper.

leaf inspired

I idly grabbed a stencil and pastels, then scanned, whirled and pinched. It wasn't until afterward I saw the connection to my current walks through swirling autumn leaves.

It's only in looking back (emotions recollected in tranquility, Wordsworth said) that we see the significance of events in our path.

just in time for chilly winds

I unexpectedly got to visit a yarn shop whose owner's blog I read (called Sean's Soapbox, but this is the official shop blog):Woolcott & Company in Harvard Square. I bought luminous and soft-on-the-skin wool, Hacho yarn by Mirasol. Lovely stuff!

I made a pair of long arm warmers and have only one to go on a second pair (different design). That's a rolling pin filling out the look.

Two pairs from two skeins, bought last Friday and done already! So glad this yarn didn't lost in my stash!

fading color

The sad part of fall leaves is that once they're dry, they lose so much of their color. Brittle and ready to crumble to dust, even when glued in the journal.

sun over splashes

I'm fond of pictures of a distant moon and a near object. This is my doodly version.

W/c in a Moleskine watercolor book.

a mill and shadow

I didn't plan this; I just drew 2 versions. Then I saw the image as a mill and its . . . not shadow . . . its mystical higher self. I love the weirdities that emerge from the right side of the brain!

I regard this as drawing with a brush, because I worked freehand from imagination and memory.

w/c on 90# Fabriano artistico (I think, bound into a journal I made months ago).

still blooming

I tend to doodle faces or flowers when I'm mindless and needing to create something quick. Other things take thought.

ball pen and w/c on 90# paper