Update

A day late but here is the result of a week (and a day) of my Drawing a Day project. So far so good.

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Drawing A Day (1)

March 2013 I started my Drawing A Day sketchbook. My plan was to make a small drawing every day that would take about 15 to 30 minutes. The idea was to draw every day especially when I couldn’t spend that day entirely drawing or on other art related business.

It’s also a really good way to get your drawing-juices flowing.

After a month I abandoned the sketchbook, started again and so on until the beginning of this year.

For some reason I couldn’t stick to it, every day I had more important things to do, no time and after a while I would just forget.

I got quite upset with myself that I could not even do this little 15 minute thing.

A few months ago I made a daily plan and the Drawing A Day was part of that plan but still I would somehow ‘forget’.

Until today…

Back Home

Sometimes kids (temporarily) come back to live with their parents again. Last weekend 3 of my ‘kids’ returned home. These drawings were sold in 2003 and 2006 and I hadn’t seen them since. It was actually nice to see them again.

The circumstances were less fun. The man that bought them in the past recently passed away, there were no family members who showed interest in them and that’s how they were returned to me. Feels weird…

Left a pastel drawing of a Long-eared Owl and middle and right two landscapes inspired by pictures from the book 'A Text-atlas of Scanning Electron Microscopy'.