Hubby and I were out walking and came upon a tree that looked like it had washed out avocados hanging from it. Turns out, it was a mahogany tree. We were awed at the beauty of the tree and the rarity of its wood.
An older woman gave us cuttings from the tree and told us to root them. She told us how old her tree was. I secretly thanked the tree for the cuttings.
I found one of the pods on the ground and it popped open this afternoon, seeds spilling out.
I’ll try planting the seeds, as well.
I belong to an illustrator’s group and a couple of times a month we get together to draw or learn a cool trick or tip.
The guest this week was Jennifer Orkin Lewis and we were working in our sketchbooks, drawing a collection of objects that she had assembled.
I drew mine directly from gouache and I didn’t screen shot the images so I had to wing it once the camera was directed at Jennifer’s sketchbook.
The lemon had a sticker but I forgot what was on it so I let it go. This whole sketch was unplanned, or I would have placed flowers a little lower and I couldn’t remember the flowers so I winged it.
Overall, I did find that since I had to wing it anyway, I was less stressed about the exercise and just enjoyed the “play.”
I have a few “prepped” homemade sketchbooks with patterned backgrounds that I use for characters. Sort of like a staged background. Today I used the background to randomly “find” a character.
This guy almost jumped off the page. But then he looks very terrier-ish so that would be normal for a terrier.
Georgie is a happy guy. Everyone loves him except……
The Cat Bully….
These sketches are part of my morning routine. I do these every morning for my daily warm up, which is similar to the drills that soccer players do everyday for ball control with their feet. My drills are for eye/hand aka “seeing” and the boxes are thinking creatively and drawing spontaeously.
I use the Sktchy App for drawing faces or animals in the vertical sketchbook. In the other sketchbook, I separate the page into boxes and I put something in the boxes every day. Some of the morning routine sketches have turned into full art or illustrations!
I forgot to post this bunny. Lol. I thought I had and scrolled through and yup, no post. So one more bunny, coming up!
Gigi practices for the cheerleading tryouts every day. She wants it to become an Olympic Sport and wants to get the first Gold medal.
(I had to check to ensure it wasn’t a sport yet, lol.)
Earl likes to sun himself. He doesn’t hear so well anymore so he was quite startled when the little girl tried to pet him…
The bunny sketches are done in my Innovative Journal, that I stitched myself from a kit. For more info about the kit, here is the link…
https://innovativejournaling.com
All the bunnies are from my imagination, painted with gouache and they are not digitally touched up. They have been photographed with my iPhone 12 Pro.
In the lone reaches of an alpine meadow sits Frosty, a high mountain bunny.
I forgot to add on the previous bunny posts that these sketches are done in my Innovative Journal, that I stitched myself from a kit.
https://innovativejournaling.com
All the bunnies are from my imagination, painted with gouache and they are not digitally touched up. They have been photographed with my iPhone 12 Pro.
Some of my bunnies don’t happen to look like real bunnies. This one is more like a cross between a dachshund and a punk rock rabbit.
Marcus is a bit of a stuffy fellow. It took him a while to style his hair. Too bad he didn’t know about the stormy forecast.
Barney sneaked into the garden. He couldn’t help himself. The carrots smelled so good.
Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration 
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