I woke up just after 7 am and felt hopeful about the day but the only thing I managed to do before hubby left for work was drink coffee. Then it was time to workout. It was a pretty slow workout but we got it done and made body parts ache.
Then I sat down to start work on the Doodlewash – October 2019 prompt; 9. Porch. Seeing a porch isn’t food or food related, I had to think of something you’d enjoy on a porch. I picked iced tea, which seemed like a Southern USA porch-sitting type drink.
Anytime I had to wait for the water on the iced tea drawing to dry, I worked on the Inktober 2019 prompt; 13. Ash. I wanted to draw a male holding or smoking a cigarette (I’ve only been drawing females so far), and found a great reference picture of a man holding a cigarette.
I don’t really feel like talking about my day. I’m unimpressed with myself at the moment. I know the feelings will pass and until they do I will do as much as I can.
Today I worked on the Doodlewash – October 2019 prompt; Dog. With the food theme in full swing, I decided to draw a hot dog. I could have just done the hot dog but I found a great reference picture of a woman holding a hot dog.
I also finished the Inktober 2019 prompt; 9. Swing. I did a search for ‘swing’ and amongst all the swings you would sit on, I found a picture of a person taking a swing at a baseball. Why wouldn’t I try sketching that?
I finished the day with French. I have just started work on the ‘City’ topic and got through the first level of it pretty easy. Some of the words like ‘today’ (aujourd’hui) are going to take me some time to get used to.
I hope you have a fantastic day filled with smiles, goodness, friendship and an abundance of creativity. You’re the best.
I crawled out of bed around 10.30 am, sat down on the sofa and sighed. I was clearly not feeling the day. In fact, everything in me just wanted to give up. I know I’ve made progress but there is still such a long way to go and some days, that feels overwhelming.
After about an hour of hopeless staring, I knew I had to get to art-ing. I had done a rough sketch for the Inktober prompt; 7. Enchanted yesterday and it was time to do the ink part. I created this design with a little inspiration from a ‘love potion’ bottle on Pinterest. I always wanted to do spells when I was a teenager. I was never that enchanting.
Next I worked on the Doodlewash prompt; 5. Barn. I had noticed a theme to the ones I’ve already done and that theme is food. (I know you wouldn’t eat the fish I sketched but you can eat fish.) So I am setting myself a new challenge within the challenge and going to do all the prompts about food.
With that in mind I did a Google search for ‘food + barn’. I eventually happened upon a photo of a fruit topped dessert which you can get at The Foodbarn. Bingo! It is somewhat barn related and it’s what I chose to do. Just between you and me, if you’re ever in South Africa it looks like a wonderful place to eat at.
There wasn’t much day left once I’d finished the art-ing, so I just did some tidying and cleaning. Now my craft area and computer area feel much more organised. Hopefully it’ll help me refocus. I can do it!!!
I finished the day with a brief French revision. I will start a new topic tomorrow. I’m also going to try harder tomorrow. At the point where I want to stop or give up, I will do one more thing.
I hope you’re having a wonderful day and feeling good about yourself. You’re magnificent and special. The world is a better place for having you in it. Smile. =)
I woke just after 7 am and I really wanted to go back to sleep. I tried but my brain had already started ticking and I was keen on starting some art. I’m a few days behind in the Doodlewash event and one day behind in the Inktober event.
For the Doodlewash – October 2019 prompt; 4. Ice, I decided to do ice cream because yum! I found a colourful reference and tried. I particularly like the wafer and the strawberry ice cream. Another thing I will try drawing again.
For the Inktober 2019 prompt; 6. Husky, I decided to draw a Hillman Husky. My original idea was to draw a husky dog but wifey helped me find a non dog reference. I had no idea how to tackle a dog in ink.
I spent the afternoon looking for some reference pictures for my next few challenge prompts and I worked on the next Inktober sketch but it’s not finished yet.
The new week starts tomorrow and that means a new Happy List. Although I have ignored writing for many weeks now, I still keep it on the list. I have things I want to write but no discipline in this area.
New to the list this week is playing my piano. I started learning to play piano when I was four. It’s always been something I loved but over the last 10 years (and not having my piano), I just lost the urge. Today hubby and wifey finally pulled my electric piano out of storage. Fingers crossed it still works.
Happy List for the week ending 13 October 2019
Teach wifey to knit
Plant seeds
Knit, 2 days
Draw with Ink, 5 days
Watercolour, 5 days
Write, 2 days
Guitar / Sing / Piano, 3 days
Watch 1 world movie
Massage legs, 2 days
Drink 2 bottles of water, 5 days
I hope your week is creative, inspired, happy, healthy and filled with things you love. You’re a shining star on a dark night. =)
When I woke up it was dark and I thought I had plenty of sleep time left. I did not. It was 7 am and time to start the day. I stared vaguely until hubby had disappeared off to work and then it was time to work out.
I remember not wanting to workout and pouting my way through the 30 minutes of doing it. I’m always proud of myself for working out when I don’t want to. I thought this would be the hardest change to make and it’s been one of the easier things (although you wouldn’t know it from all my complaining.)
Then I sat down to work on the Doodlewash – October 2019 prompt; 3. Fish. I found a pretty reference picture and did my best. I don’t think I’m being patient enough in between using the water and applying a new colour. I’m also not sure if I use enough or too much water. Confusing. I like how the fish turned out though.
I also did the Inktober 2019 prompt; 5. Build. I didn’t use a reference picture. I’m still a little shy with ink and didn’t add as much detail or shading as I feel it needed. I’m sure I’ll get more confident.
I finished the day with French. The timed practice runs went smoothly and I’m wondering if I should start on a new set of words on Tuesday or if I should practice what I already know for another week.
Tomorrow is the first day of the weekend for hubby and we will relax. Hopefully we’ll get some seeds planted this weekend. I don’t want to miss out on all the lovely spring weather.
Bonne Journée . Que tous tes voeux se réalisent. (Have a good day. May all your wishes come true.)
5.30 am was the start of the day and I object. It was far too early to be awake but I knew there was no way I would get back to sleep. I sat. I stared. I contemplated Inktober and Doodlewash (but not long enough to realise I could have done them together.) Then I played WoW until about 9 am when i knew I had to be the day.
It was time for a workout and my body said, I OBJECT. (Today is proudly sponsored by the words… I object.) Everything was aching before I had even started, so I started anyways. There were almost tears but I fought on like a champ and we got through the work out in 24 minutes.
The first stop on the creative train was the Doodlewash – October 2019 prompt; 1. Onions. I found a picture of red onions to reference. I used watercolour pencils.
The next stop was the Inktober 2019 prompt; 1. Ring. I have already seen some aaaaamazing sketches for this prompt. Some people have used the prompt in ways I couldn’t even imagine. I was feeling intimidated by working with ink, so I went for something very simple. A ring of flowers… that may or may not be wreath like. It’s a ring, I swear.
The last stop on the sketching train was the Inktober prompt; 2. Mindless. I really didn’t know where to go with this prompt but had an urge to do a zombie. When I finally Googled ‘mindless zombie, I found there was a NPC in WoW with the same name. So, I did that.
The sketching took up a big chunk of the day. Once I was done, I was done. My early morning had caught up with me and I had to crawl back into bed for a nap. It sure was a lovely nap followed by an equally lovely dinner.
The day started at 7 am and by 8 am I was doing French. I finished the ‘restaurant’ topic and I’m going to spend the rest of the week doing timed practice runs. It was a pretty solid practice again. I finally feel I’m getting somewhere with French. I’m on a 100 day streak. Woo!
Hubby ambled off to work which marked the start of the day. I threw my blanket off and wifey and I got to working out. We did the workout in 26 minutes. We both groaned a lot. I like to call that the sound of workout. If i’m not making it, I’m just not pushing hard enough.
Being the first of the month a lot of art challenges are starting. I really want to participate in the Doodlwash October and Inktober events. Although, as I write this, I still haven’t finished the event from last month. If I can finish that off today, I’ll be happy.
I skipped prompt 28 because I planned on using watercolour pencils and thought it would be best to do that last.
So then it was onto the prompt; 29. Bottle. I was looking at upcycled wine bottles for inspiration and saw some lovely vintage bottles. That led me to perfume bottles and I chose a beautiful pink perfume bottle for inspiration. I ended up taking a little inspiration from it then made it my own (something I could actually draw.)
Next I did the Doodlewash prompt; 30. Brush. There were so many different brushes that I could have chosen but I was drawn to a picture of mascara. It has to be one of my favourite beauty products. I sketched the ‘Lash Paradise‘ from the reference picture.
Then it was time for the last Doodlewash prompt; 28. Soap. I left this one til last because I was going to try to use watercolour pencils but I’d been having such a good day of normal pencils, I continued the trend, regrettably. The smoothness of watercolour would have helped this a lot. Oh well. The reference I used has a recipe for making soap. That seems pretty cool.
I got through the last four Doodlewash – September 2019 prompts by 4 pm. It felt like a good place to stop. Tomorrow will be another very full day of art. I will start work on Doodlewash – October and Inktober prompts.
It’s a new week for the Happy List (a list of 10 things that will make me feel happier if I do them). Arts and craft is strongly featured. I really just want to learn and do things that are good for me.
Learn something new
Paint
Knit, 2 days
Draw with Ink, 5 days
Drawing Challenge, 5 days
Write, 2 days
Play guitar, 3 days
Watch 1 world movie
Massage legs, 2 days
Drink 2 bottles of water, 5 days
If I could keep up today’s level of busy all week, that would be epic. I feel that I won’t be able to sustain it though. I’m tired already.
I hope your day has been filled with creativity, colour and cake.
