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I watched one of the movies I had recorded on the tee-vee tonight.  To be honest, The 47 Ronin part II was hard for me to get through and not a favorite.  Maybe it would’ve helped if I had see part I?  I wanted to check it out because the synopsis looked promising: samurai seek revenge and all 47 of them are sentenced to death by suicide based on a true story. Visually the film had some nice stuff to look at (costumes, hair, a look into different country and different time period). 

This drawing is a paused screenshot from the movie jotted down on paper.  I roughly sketched out the courtyard that these two dudes were sitting in, but later decided to paste over the green-blue notebook paper background instead.  As the movie was in black and white, I was also able to color it however I liked.

Today I made lots and lots of paper cranes. They ranged in size from 1 cm² to 10cm². It was a lot of fun, seeing that they were all made from notebook paper colored with crayon and colored pencil. Seeing as I gave them all away, there are no pictures. But it was tons of fun! There were more than 30 cranes, all in all.

Thing A Day 8 - inktense

Originally uploaded by emberlexi

Again, something a little different. drawing, but not so realistic. Played with Derwent Inktense pencils & Sharpie Poster Paint pens.

Drawn while basking in the lovely music from Bill Mallonee live at Rhythm & Hues in Marietta, GA.

This is a Page A Day page that was inspired by a page in my sketchbook years ago, which was inspired by the lid of my colored pencil box seen here . The tips of the pencils left subtle gentle marks on the lid as the box jostled around in my bag. I was really mesmerized by that beauty and recreated it here by dropping my colored pencils over the page.

-Robyn

Bought a pair of Fluevogs today, after months of pining for them.

I used a mix of pen and colored pencil, because I needed brown but my pocket pen set doesn’t contain any browns.

A colored pencil doodle for today: