Everyday in May 16

EDiM 16...Draw a stapler....well ....staples were more interesting, ( can you have visual typos ?) unfinished, will post finished version tomorrow. Sketched it out , then knocked over the box........would be more interesting to draw the untidy version of staples hastily and badly thrown back in the box (but life is too short and I have a bar of soap to find

Everyday in May 15

Draw a cookie (or three).........

Everyday in May 14

EDiM 14  A glass of juice ...grape juice (fermented)

Everyday in May 13

Draw a seashell or something with a shell....a quick snail, drawn from a series of photographs I took a few years ago

Draw a seashell or something with a shell....a quick snail. I have done sketchbook studies of this snail before I kidnapped it, put it on the balcony and it ran away, caught it again the second time round the building....it kept visiting me every few days  http://debra.morris.hk/2012/10/great-african-snail.html

Everyday in May 12

 A shelf or mantel and something that sits on it ......wooden shoe last

Everyday in May 11 lemon

EDiM11.....lemon, sorry had to break away from the list today......the theme was Draw something interesting you found on the internet but,  I have been struggling with following the list the last few days so decided to go back to the original idea of Everyday in May, which was to be creative everyday.

Everyday in May 10

Draw something cracked........quick rendition of an old stone hut

Everyday in May 9 shadow

Everyday in May 8 mirror image

Butterfly wings

I learn't something about myself doing this....I don't like painting evenly.

Everyday in May 7

Playing catch up ....EDiM 7 Draw an oven. I don't have a microwave but here's my small oven which is about the same size. It works well but it would make my life so much easier if it had 2 shelves

Street scene

a recent commission

Everyday in May 6

Draw a family relic....I'll let you work out what it is..........

Everyday in May 5

Draw a favourite hobby........don't really have any hobbies but I do try and swim every day in the sea.....

Thumb

a quick thumb, in between making two lasagnas (and the washing up that comes with it)  and a hint of what I intend to do tonight........too lazy to do the text but the book is "Life after Life" by Kate Atkinson....a book I should have read before today so I could have gone to the book club.....this afternoon. Enjoying it !
(and maybe a manicure to sort out my wrinkly hands)

Umbrella

Everyday in May number 3
Draw an umbrella.......this is a friends parasol from Burma/Myanmar but it is waterproof so could be an umbrella.
Another subject I am playing around with as a theme for paintings...will be posting the inside and open views at a later date.

cleaver

Everyday in May 2
Draw a knife or blade.......here's my chopper

Windows

It's that time of year again....Everyday in May number 1
Boarded windows in Hong Kong......

This is an image I wanted to explore as a painting

corks

quick birthday card for my friend........
and happy to say my scanner is working again!

Macarons

A quick watercolour with a new set of paints....had to take a photo which makes it dark, as my scanner is not working, will replace this soon.
Sorry about the lack of posts but working hard on a few commissions

Cherry Blossom

24 x 32 cm watercolour on Canson 140lb watercolour paper