Get On the Bus

I re-sketched the thumbnail from the other day and added ink and watercolor. I am proud of this piece because it is the first one that I did totally on my own: finding a building I wanted to draw, working through the perspectives, and layering colors, etc with no outside guidance. It’s a beautiful home one block away and I never noticed it in 30+ years! It’s tucked into a little dead end street next to the school, and I just never walked that way or if I did, never stopped to really look.  Day four of morning walking. Vic and I headed out at 8 o’clock this morning for our walk. I way overdressed and on the way home Vic carried my coat. I could have carried it myself, but Vic wanted to do it, so I gave in and gave it to him. He is a very very thoughtful man. I think it really bugs him that his role as protector and provider has gotten smaller. So, anything he can do, he’s pretty persistent in doing. He worries if I drive after dark, so even if he’s comfortable in his chair or busy w...

  Vic and I in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan last year.  Good afternoon. I went for another walk this morning with Vic. It seems that the only way to get myself out of my chair is to go somewhere in the morning. I’ve always been a morning person in terms of energy. By lunch I start winding down, by mid-afternoon I start a steady descent into the Mariana Trench of lethargy so that by evening I’m barely a functioning adult. I’ve always been this way, even as a child. I’m a sprinter, not a distance runner. Hot out of the gate, heaving and panting after 50 yards.  So, I’m trying hard to get a morning walk into my routine before I hit that mental wall and go comatose.  I’m not in love with my options for walking around here. I don’t live far from Lake Michigan and the park system that runs the length of Chicago, but just far enough to make walking there and back the extent of my nascent exercise regimen and it’s not until the very end of that route that there’s a payoff...

  A thumbnail sketch I did of a house in our neighborhood while on a walk this morning with Vic. I have a tendency to draw slanted—as you can see. I am not going to watercolor or shade this sketch which would give it a nice 3-D look because 1) it’s wonky 2) I will redraw it tomorrow and put the front door in the middle even though that is not how it is.   But this is my first attempt at drawing something that I didn’t find on the internet, but just from walking around. So, I’m pleased, even with the wonky-ness.                                                                                      ********* I’m back after hitting a bump in my blog journey. It’s not that I don’t have enough to say. I have too much to say. I have d...