Daily Commitment

I have a commitment to write and draw most days.  Writing each day, for me, is as little as five sentences of what I am grateful for that day.  If energy is good I will write until 3 pages are full - sometimes with rather large font coming out of my biro.  It is called a consciousness stream of writing.

Although challenging I also try and draw - just a line sketch referring to an image that I have cut and pasted from a National Geographic magazine.  It takes maybe 2 to 5 minutes - just to keep my hand in drawing, right before I fall asleep.

Writing and drawing are precious to me.  Evidence of this life time love is in my shed - boxes of journals - of art work to be made and novels to be written!

Illustration For Bendigo Family Nature Club

One of my favorite volunteer projects is for the Bendigo Family Nature Club.

Today at the Bendigo Farmers Market we promoted our next event, Bug Blitz with this poster.

Designed with the assistance of Canva - it absolutely feels like cheating using this online design software!

Lost Drawings

My Nan is transitioning to a new phase in her life. From living alone in her own home, to moving to a residential care room.  It is extraordinary to hear her voice now - I didn't realise how much I missed her laugh, until she moved out of her home.  It is a relief that she is now settled and happy.

Her children have been fantastic cleaning up her home ready to go on the market.  In the clean up this book of drawings was found and returned to me - I completely forgot about this book!  What a joy to view again.

Please click to view a little video.  The pencil drawings are layered between tracing paper!

These were drawn on our honeymoon in Berlin back in 2005.

What joys have you re-discovered lately?