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Sketchbook - Part 5

4/29/2021

 
Six more days, six more sketches. Day 17 to day 22. Stay at home order number 3. Sketch everyday only from life, no photographic reference allowed. Sketchbook is 6 inches by 6 inches. Quick sketches. 

Sketchbook - Part 4

4/24/2021

 
Six more days, six more sketches. Day 11 to day 16. Stay at home order number 3. Sketch everyday only from life, no photographic reference allowed. Sketchbook is 6 inches by 6 inches. Quick sketches. Tools include micron pen, water brushes, watercolour  pencils for colour. Except for the last one... which is painted with coffee.

Sketchbook - Part 3

4/18/2021

 
6 days of sketches... Monday to Saturday sketches. Sketching with pencil, micron ink pen and waterbrush filled with distilled water and couple drops of india ink. Some I was just playing with watercolour pencil and waterbrush.

Sketchbook - Part 2

4/11/2021

 
Friday, Saturday and Sunday sketches. Daily small and quick sketches using a MICRON 05 pen, and a water brush filled with distilled water and a couple drops of india ink for grey tones in 6" x 6" sketchbook.

New Sketchbook

4/9/2021

 
Tis the season to get outside and sketch. It's also the 3rd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and a new stay at home order.  The small size of my new sketchbook 6" x 6" is great for location sketching. Using a MICRON 05 pen, and a water brush filled with distilled water and a couple drops of india ink for grey tones. First image is from my back yard. I did not know what the flower was so I googled it.

​When you google "small purple flowers in lawn" this is what comes up:
(https://newgarden.com/notes/controlling-wild-violet-weeds-in-the-lawn#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20difficult,can%20choke%20out%20your%20lawn.)
One of the most difficult weeds to control in the lawn is wild violet. This native plant may look cute and dainty, especially in the spring when it produces pretty purple flowers. But in reality it is an aggressive weed with an unusual flowering quirk that results in thick mats of leaves that can choke out your lawn. Aug. 29, 2013

When you google "wild violet native" this is what comes up:
(https://www.ediblewildfood.com/wild-violet.aspx)
Wild violets are beautiful when in bloom but as the temperatures warm up the flowers tend to wilt and die off by the heat of the summer. These flowers tend to start growing in shady areas and spread to sunnier locations should the conditions be favourable. This edible plant is not liked in many areas as it can take over a lawn. They freely self-seed to the point of being weedy in optimum growing conditions. In addition to being edible this plant has several medicinal properties as well.

Just found it interesting - first search: it's a bad weed vs second search: its an edible native plant.

Western University - McIntosh Gallery

4/6/2021

 
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Gothic limestone architecture, ivy-covered walls, lots of green space, and nestled beside the Thames River is Western University. Founded in 1878, the campus is one of the most picturesque in North America. Hard to believe I have lived in London for so long and never drawn or sketched any of the magnificent buildings on this campus.
​McIntosh Gallery was established in 1942, and is the oldest university art gallery in Ontario.
As it turns out... this was the location of the last art opening I went to before the COVID-19 lock down of 2020 and was the location of the first art exhibition I went to view in March of 2021.

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