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Thursday the Seventh: I managed a doodle, with oil pastels (does that sound wrong??).  Felt pretty basic, primary school flowers, but I pretty much stopped drawing in primary school, so why should I assume I’ve gotten any better (in my sleep, perhaps?).  Anyway, when I look at my effort now, it seems to have become its own entity, and I appreciate its existence. 

Friday the Eighth, tonight: I got caught up in the idea of making valentines for a few friends.  Specifically, making hearts to sew onto teabags what will be packaged in a mug-shaped card or something, with a note, perhaps.  Bit over the top, especially when I never usually do anything for Valentine’s Day, but for one thing, I’m missing my beautiful friends in Australia (already posted them valentine notes listing things I love about them), and also, I’m grateful to my family and new friends here in Canada, for welcoming me into their everyday lives.  So yes, Valentines for my girlfriends all round, this year!

A few doodles and sketches and class assignments in progress over the last few days.

One is the “bad” childhood memory, the start of my career as an outlaw bandita.  I musta been 3 or 4 and saw my brother with candy in the store. So I reached up and grabbed some gum off the shelf. I apparently didn’t know about the whole ‘buying’ concept, which turned out to be a problem when my mom discovered the gum in my fat little fist about to go into my contented face. I think I had to go in and hand it back. It wasn’t so bad, really, but I remember the whole thing came as quite a surprise to me, and an unpleasant one. Mostly, I chose this topic because I wanted to google pictures of Piggly Wiggly stores. Wish I’d had time to do their logo and lettering justice.

Other sketches are a kaiser roll (see day 4) and idea generation sketches for a book review illustration assignment…the book is about horse races, and involves lots of gambling, addiction, cheating, superstition (apparently nuns in parking lots are bad omens) and racetrack weirdos

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