If you’ve been following along for very long at all, you probably know that I am not that great at drawing, and it is a skill that I would like to improve. So I’m setting myself some drawing challenges, the first of which was to try to really draw a …
Earlier this week, husband made individual pot pies in little ramekins. They were adorable, and delicious, and the leftovers resulted in there being a few little pieces of aluminum foil floating around the house after I at some of them for lunch the next day. So of course I had …
So far this week we have mapped our daily route and somewhere we used to live, and we’ve made the sea monsters to go at the edges of our maps. Today I want to challenge you to map your mind, which can be as literal or figurative as you like. …
I think we need to bring back sea monsters on maps. They’re kind of the perfect way to illustrate uncharted territory, the unknown places that could be really scary or really cool or some of both. Today’s challenge is to draw a sea monster of your own devising. Maybe it’s …
How well do you remember the places you used to live? It turns out I don’t all that well. I can remember generally where different rooms were, but it turns out when I tried to draw the house I grew up in, I, for one, did a really bad job …
On my long list of creative ideas I came up with before this challenge started, there were several ideas that had to do with maps, so I decided to declare this map week. The first one is pretty simple, but also pretty fun: map your route to work or school …
As a knitter, I sometimes chart patterns on graph paper, but I thought it might be fun to draw on grid paper without having a knitting project in mind. Drawing on girds makes everything square, of course. It’s kind of fun to try to draw a circle. I’ve done a …
