Days 7, 8, 9, 10 Sketches 2025 March

 These are the sketches from March 7-10. I have one for #11, but don't have it scanned in yet, so I will share these for now. Haven't missed a day in March yet, but I go back to the retina specialist tomorrow for another shot in my eyeball, and it's a pretty long trip out of town, so it's according to how I feel afterwards as to whether I get a sketch or a med stitch done tomorrow. We'll see.

All of my daily sketches, except the first one, this year are in my Canson Mixed Media 7"x10" sketchbook.

Day 7: A jonquil that hubby brought in to me several days before that had dried up, but was still in water in a vintage cobalt blue Milk of Magnesia bottle that I dug out years ago, from a junk pile we had when I was growing up. We live in the country, and in the fifties everybody in the country had their own personal junk pile somewhere out behind their house. 😀 I love cobalt blue glass stuff! I also have this bottle in an oil painting that I did years ago... Zig Writer marker

Day 8: Same blue bottle, shortened some, with a fresh jonquil in it. At some point my sketching has morphed into crosshatching. Good practice for shading, which I need! Basic sketch in pencil, then Zig Writer marker 

Day 9: A carved wooden angel/fairy figurine gifted to me by friends when my dad died in 2004. I've never gotten tired of her, and she sits on our fireplace mantel among family photos. She barely has a face, except for two tiny dots for eyes. Her face and hands are flesh colored, her hair is brown with two roses on top,  her hat and dress are white with roses scattered about, and her wings are bronze colored wire. I sketched her first in pencil, then used a Zig Writer marker.

Day 10: A glass coffee pot bank that one of my oldest friends gave me in 1974 when we moved into our new house, after living in a house trailer for four years. It was a matte medium yellow, at the time, with black knob and rings on top, black letters, and a black handle. It has sat on my kitchen window sill over the sink since she gave it to me all those years ago. Over time the paint started coming off, so I eventually scrubbed it all off down to the shiny white base, and I still love it. It has a hole in the bottom with a rubber stopper, which rotted out a long time ago, to get the money out. Incidentally, we are still friends, and she comes to visit every Sunday afternoon. 😊 Pencil, Zig Writer, which is about out of ink, and a calligraphy pen with India ink

Well, that's it for now. I'll post yesterday's sketch in the next grouping. 

I didn't officially join the 100 Day Project Challenge, where you do something for 100 days, for this year, but so far I've only missed five days  of sketching since January 1, and I've actually done 89 sketches, so I guess I qualify in a few more days. I'm going to add enough extra days onto the 100 to account for the five I missed, so that I will have actually sketched 100 days, and I will actually have over 100 sketches, because some days at the beginning I sketched two or three a day. Does that make sense? Anyway, it's quite an achievement for me, because I tend to get bored in the middle of projects and move on to something else!

We're having another beautiful spring like day today, and it's hard to stay inside. Hubby is enjoying it though! 

I'm going to post my last batch of stitch meditations next, and I did yesterday's sketch in pencil, but didn't have time to go over it with my ink, so I'm trying to decide whether to leave it as is or ink it. Then I need to prepare for our trip tomorrow out of town, do my exercises, and do today's sketch and stitches. Never a dull minute here, but I'm grateful!

Take care, be well, and stay creative!