For those of you who have never encountered a sketchbook, it’s basically a diary with drawings. Your drawing. You carry it wherever you go and when you see something, you draw a picture in your book and maybe also write some words about it, what you were thinking, what the day is like, maybe even your mood. Yesterday was the first time I actually tried drawing and here are the results.

I was encouraged by my first little drawing of dried ivy leaves, so I decided to try a bird. Clearly I need to do a lot more work. I got the roundness right. Our Cardinals look like tennis balls with beaks. They are big eaters.

Despite my Cardinal looking like it was drawn by a third-grader, I decided to move along to the “fruit drawing with highlights” — the final stage of that lesson. I grabbed our last remaining apple.

This was the first time I drew something and tried to make it look “3D.” I got the top indent of the apple and it’s the first time I’ve done that. It’s a breakthrough!

And that was lesson one. Technically it was lesson three, but I didn’t count the introduction and discussion of how to lay out the book so you’ll like how it looks. I’m still not happy with my “book design,” but I have time to work on it.

Categories: #gallery, #Photography, #Sketchbook, Arts

Tags: #Photography, #Sketchbook, humor, Marilyn Armstrong