I love how the light shines through the grasses when Lee and I walk down to the mailbox on sunny summer mornings.
Things sparkle.
I went back to the six way book of wildflower paintings. It is a good thing my expectations are fairly low for this work.
The good part about it is how many I have managed to put in here and it still seems endless just to get to the end of this one section. The other thing I like is how the pages rustle together when I flip through the images.
I have kept up with the drawings a day and haiku.
Black, grey, taupe and red
are the colors of Guttermann
linen unwaxed threads.
My one last purchase
from the Australian button
lady of notions.
Covered chalk marker
and white vinyl eraser
are in the tool bag.
I wish these glasses
could let me see how to draw
them so much better.
I particularly like the single large spool of thread above. It was the button lady’s last time to come to the conferences in Australia and I had purchased these big spools of beige linen from her in the past. I would never use all the thread on this spool let alone the others. But once I hold this spool in my hand, I need to have it. I am sure that all those who attend the fibre conferences will miss the button lady. I am sure she has a name but “button lady” was what we all called her. You never knew what treasures she would have among all her buttons and sewing notions.
Today I drew the pair of scissors in the tool bag. Tomorrow I will draw the tool bag itself and then be through with that source for interesting drawing things. Maybe I will go back outside and pick up more bits of nature….we’ll see.
Better go.
Til later.