EDM - Day 9

Someone you love and/or admire

The love of my life

EDM - Day 8

Boots

Micron pen, Tombow dual brush pen, black ink waterbrush, watercolor

I'm smiling to myself as I sketch these boots. I wore them to my watercolor class recently, because I needed something comfortable to patrol the room during an intensive and active series of timed drills that I assigned to my students. One student said, "From now on, if I see you wearing those boots I'm going to run the other way!" I'm happy to report that everyone survived and actually outdid themselves.

EDM - Day 7

A Gadget Used for Cleaning

iRobot-My little sweeper roams around the hardwood floors, vacuuming up dust and crumbs, bumping gently into chairs and doorways. Undismayed, he nonchalantly backs up and simply pirouettes to continue in another direction. Invisible rays emanate from the two white towers, fooling him into thinking a wall is there. He makes a quarter turn and on he goes until he reaches my area rug with a dark border. He thinks it's a cliff and stops dead in his tracks. I let him think it over for a few moments and then send him back to recharge at his battery dock. 

EDM-Day 6

A Timepiece

I never wear a watch anymore. 

EDM - Day 5

Something seen in a park

My sketch kit on the bench of the British phone booth garden seat.

Jennings Memorial Park in Marysville, WA, has developed into a wonderful place for the community. There is a playground, a small fishing pond, the original Jennings Barn, an amphitheater and a Master Gardeners' garden. In the garden, there are various rooms with appropriate plantings. The English Cottage Garden is getting some color now and the most colorful object there is a garden seat made to look like a British telephone booth. That's my sketch bag on the bench.

An arbor leads into the English Cottage Garden at Jennings Park

EDM -Day 4

A Game

So let's start with a guessing game. Can you guess the game I illustrated here for the Every Day in May Challenge?

Tip: Mine is related to the truly "old school" version of the game that actually goes back to the Han dynasty. The new version of the game is the subject of an episode of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory in 2008 (as rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock).