Jan's Art Journal

Merry Christmas! It's a rainy, dreary day in Michigan. I'm sure glad we have our little tree. We put it up as soon as we got back from Tanzania. I enjoyed looking at it so much that I decided to sketch it!

Be spontaneous in your sketching. Maybe you'll get something worth doing something with later, and maybe you won't. Look at the effort as a "warm-up." I have pages that look just like doodles. So what.

I'm onto a new sketchbook. I'm just like a kid with a new box of crayons. I bought several gray pens to use for the middle tones. Can't wait to use them.

We'll be leaving for our winter sojourn to Florida on Jan 2. Can't wait for the sun and warm weather.

Jan's Art Journal

I've been sketching at regular intervals, sometimes several times a day. It's amazing what I can catch with just a few lines. I think I will be able to do a better job sketching when we are in Tanzania. A project? Forget it! I'm using a sketching pen and then going over parts of the picture with watercolor pencils and then hitting it with a little water. Some examples of my handiwork.