Jornal Page: more presents

My friend crocheted this wonderful pencil case for me - it travels now in my backpack all the time and holds all kinds of art supplies ;)

Jornal Page: more presents

Zebra pen was another little present - it's nice, but somehow a little too stiff for me. Though because it has two ends it's a nice tool to keep in my waist pouch ;)

Sketchbook #27

Sketchbook #27 - cover
I picked this book in the library rack "books for sale" for $1 - the size is just exactly what I was looking for and this cover is very nicely done: wonderful linen cloth, smooth matte finish on the book board - all I had to do was pull the actual signatures with text (sorry!) and restrain myself from putting too many signatures inside. Actually two was just the right number. This cover stood up to a beating of a rather vigorous 19 days (January 9th through 28th), traveled with me quite a bit in different bags and in the car and overall looks like new!

Here is inside spread and I will follow with more shortly! :)
Sketchbook #27 - inside

Hidden Villa, December 2008

It was raining lightly and I thought that there is no chance for me to sketch. Backpack with my sketchbook and little sketching kit was left in the car - I did not think we would last even 5 minutes.
Hidden Villa, December 2008
But rain was not hard. there were many interesting plants to check out in the garden, my little companion felt fine in a new jacket and we pressed on until sun started to show her face between rain drops and we found ourselves among animals :) I pulled my little book from the waist pack, found a pen and was happy to continue sketching until it was time to go home because all this excitement and chasing chickens and talking to Mama Cita made my little guy hungry ;)

Long day :)


Long day :), originally uploaded by apple-pine.

Visiting donkeys at the Barron Park in Palo Alto, sleeping, collecting remains of Araucaria pine cons and sleeping again (not visible on this photo), visiting Villa Montalvo and sketching trees :)