Mr. Jill is one of my budgies 
I tried drawing him in one continous line while he rubbed his head on the side of the cage, but it ended up being several continuous lines. Souffle pen on cardstock.
There’s an exercise in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain where you draw every little wrinkle in your hand without looking at the paper. It’s called “pure drawing”. 
I tried to do the same thing with a Souffle puff ink pen. The trick is, though, I’m left handed, and it’s easy to smear! I had to take it very, very slowly. The lady at the art store said these pens work better the slower you go, so that wasn’t a problem! I did it before I went to bed, so I didn’t get a chance to scan it…wanted to make sure it was nice and dry so it wouldn’t smear.
OK, I seem to have badgers on the brain lately Maybe I made this one look too friendly! A while ago I cut some ATC sized cards and coloured a solid background with Prismacolor markers. The time was right for this purple one - and I think gray was the colour to match with it.
I’m very good at losing things. Too good, in fact. I often leave things in the most obvious place and then wonder where they went! Such was the case with Thursday’s ACEO, a little green parrot. I just found him this morning after looking all over for him. I don’t why I can forget where something went in such a short period of time! This ATC/ACEO is made from chalk pastel for the background and watercolour crayons for the rest. I’ve had these crayons forever, and figured this was a good time to try them out. The package says to make short, hard strokes. Not much happened when I wet the crayon areas though! I probably have to blend a lot more and use different colours.
I’m a little behind on scanning and picture taking as I was volunteering and I had class on Wednesday! This is a little ACEO made from some Swedish, US and Canadian stamps. It’s so rare to get stamps these days, and it was something I always enjoyed collecting when I was younger.
I found out about Thing A Day through an ATC group, I’m so glad I caught the post in time!
