Jeanne-Marie
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Spent 30 minutes in the backyard watching a whole cadre of carpenter ants work to demolish a fallen Ponderosa Pine tree. Sat on another nearby fallen tree until the ants there were too pesky, running up my feet and legs, breaking my concentration. These trees have been excellent places to sit for more than ten years - once the ants have them chewed up, we will miss them!
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I'm much more comfortable with the more simple line drawings, and I'm having fun experimenting with the mix of drawing and writing.
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I'm not yet good at the light and dark ranges to get the 3-D effect, but it's fun to practice.
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This was a fun assignment! I haven't used watercolors since high school art, and let's just say that was more than a few years ago. Nothing really came easily for me - I had to work for every stroke and every color. I haven't drawn a bird to this detail before, and over the years I've preferred writing to drawing, so this is a good stretch for me. I did this drawing twice, once with just pencil and then again with pencil, watercolors and marker. I was really intrigued by the feet holding on to the branch, and interestingly I did a much better job with them in the first pencil drawing. I might not have had the time to appreciate the feet holding the branch if I was trying to quickly capture this bird in the field.
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I've always loved starting new journals and notebooks with various themes and intent, often taking a lot of time at first with them, only to lose interest, put them down, and eventually just store them in the closet. The closet is packed with half-started notebooks. I'm hopeful that Nature Journaling will me get outside, appreciate the small things, improve my art and writing skills, and help me to actually finish a notebook.
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