A busy two weeks in a strange continuing world of lockdown, Days seem to blend together, however, there are also so many highlights.

I bought myself a lovely bunch of ranunculas.

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A walk in the park in my lunchbreak. The local gardens have a cafe, which has remained open for takeaways.

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I also bought myself a beautiful tea cup and saucer from an online vintage store.

I attended a zoom National conference for Law Librarians. I made a note on the page, that is was a strange experience to be listening to an online talk on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a set 1841 & 1836 La journals infront of me, which are also available online.

Here are my watercolour pencils drawings of the Law Journal Reports as a work in progress

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The results of wild wilds, not the earthquake. View from my window looking at some very large pot plants near the apartment pool.

…and that was just some of my week. I also catchup with sketching friends inthe UK and Sydney and Melbourne onthe weekends.

Last week I had started sketching parts of the gourmet hamper I ordered from the local Life’s Too Short Wine Bar. I had the main parts on the page and the colours. I ate most of it and left some sad pieces of salad etc on the plates so that I could look at the shape and colours.

I really wanted to focus on lettering on the page. I don’t usually do a lot of writing and or create labels on the page. However, I had a vision in mind and am pleased with what I ended up with. It can be refined more. It is really just my own writing style in different sizes and colours. I did not want to do anything too different.

Below are last weeks sketches shown next to the finished page. The line down the middle is the middle of the double-page spread. I decided not to try and remove it in Photoshop. The pages did get a little messy over the week as I rubbed out the lettering to try and make it fit around the drawings.

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And then some cheese, crackers, nuts

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salad

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the main – salmon

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dessert

All in watercolour pencil and the writing is a Faber Castell PITT (SMALL) in Dark Sepia.

Enjoy! I did!

Today I am posting lots of half-finished sketches. I hope to post the finished pages next Sunday. I want to finish the drawing and add some lettering describing the food on the page.

I ordered another gourmet food hamper from a local wine bar. A special lockdown offering, It was a cold seafood feast for two. This is going to last me three meals and pages and days of sketching with my watercolour pencils.

DESSERT – still to be drawn – crepes !

I want to add special lettering as I usually just dive in and write on the page, without thinking. see you all next week.