Good morning! Time for coffee!!

This was supposed to be a sketchbook page that ended up with a little watercolor for my wall. Now I also want to do an in depth study of their anatomy, research and illustrate their eyes, see this trilobite in yellow duckie pillbug and zebra millipede colors, and bring out my toned paper. Guess I want to make this a whole thing for a little while.

Can anyone spare a grand so I can get me a museum quality piece to study?

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Day three of "But what if trilobites had colors like my fancy pillbugs?" Have changed page layout three times. No graphite lines on a single trilobite yet. Am glad I am not a professional with deadlines.

Ran across one of my old pics and laughed all over again. A bit blurry, but the best photobomb ever. Daughter didn't realize the camera was out when she came to watch me feed the spider.

We both used to be scared of spiders, thanks Shadow, for helping us get over that while we gave you shelter through the winter :).

I managed to figure out several similar but distinct textures, not that either my scanner or my phone wants me to really show them to you. I need a new scanner. Anyway, that's the prettiest S I've ever drawn, if I do say so myself.

I have always wanted to sketch my stones, but have been way too intimidated by the number of textures they have. I've been at this a couple of days, but I'm starting to feel like I'm figuring a few things out. The trilobite is going to feel like cheating after trying to portray white crystals. Thankfully I have many stones to study, and no deadline to get it right.

When I grow up I want to be:

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Time for zoomies in the freshly mown grass.

Finally took my samples to a dude who was interested in seeing them for a consignment deal, and when he saw the scarf that was Venus flytrap digestive glands, his jaw hit the floor, so that's encouraging. I knew I'd find a target market there. I'm thinking that and flea markets is where my designs will sell. Now I just have to figure out where to get them printed in bulk and work out pricing :).

I stopped drawing a couple of decades ago, up until about 2 years ago. My eyes have gone bad and my hands stiff, and I always feel like I'm playing catch up, trying to get to the skill levels that I was at before. I just got a nice magnifying glass and embossing tools, and am practicing using them to make crisp highlights. Have been feeling frustrated with the page, so I decided to dig out a sketchbook from about a year and a half ago. Now I feel better.

ginger harvest, wove them into the bird's cages. They can dry there and become nutritious shred toys. Put a pinch of chickweed near each to entice them to explore (they LOVE chickweed, just like chickens). Now the room is ginger grass scented :). Bonus shot of Sunny eyeing the new green stuff with cautious curiosity. The worms will get the shreds.

#petsOfCoSo

The veggie powder ("fairy dust" for the kiddo's food) is actually rather tasty. It now has carrots, green beans, peas, and beets. I tried some, it's lightly sweet, just beety enough to cover the pea flavor, without being too beety. A good start.

Part of why I'm doing this is my daughter's immune system seems to be suffering from her picky habits, so I did my first indoor ginger harvest :). I put the rhizomes with the largest root systems back in. I might try a little orange peel next.

My porch garden is growing well.

#gardening

I have a picky child and dog that I cook for (not Lacy in the background, she loves everything) so I'm doing the old trick of cooking, dehydrating, and making powders of veggies to stir into sauces, cookies, ice cream, hide in a pb&j, whatever. This is a pound of carrots.

Old sketch books emerged from the shed.

Joe is cleaning out the shed, he found the rock painting books I painted Fred with. I have four of these books. Time to start looking for suitable rocks.

Zero Pam is trying hard.

Even better. I'm itching to pull out my wallet. These babies will look great under my blacklight wall hanging of two skeletons making out.