drawing | garden {blame it on gris}

·

i found this image in a book  in the thrift shop on thursday. serendipity is a fickle thing, and i love riding its waves, especially if i don't need to make any efforts. i didn't have my glasses on and i honestly thought this was a plan for a garden! further inspection learnt me it wasn't, but my mind got set. 

·

the drawing sits in the book GETTING TO MANANA, by miranda innes. 

·

i took a day off {renovation} work and ended up in the verge near the river, eatin' my green beans on double toast. 

·

mark the new blue on the thumb nail, if you please. much tinier and a lot less painful than the first blue-on-toe. colouring my renov days like it's nobody's business.

·

earlier this week i found myself doing similar tricks in my own garden {lifting up my food to the air}. search me why! 
·
son cut me a plaster free sandwich and i ate it, sitting on the back porch steps, soaking up the spring sun (before he curbed 'round the tall douglas tree). 

·
though my pencil initially flew over the pages the classic way, i then wondered if i could give my sketching a certain effect? 
·
nothing fancy, but squares and ton-sur-ton never fail to grab me. after all, i did initially envisage an abstract tinge. 
{keep this sketch in mind a little for what follows}.

·
a juan gris effect {brought to my attention on friday} emerged. i can't say i've much heard of him, but his paintings seem to ring a familiar bell. 
·
how i could have done with renilde's expertise on the subject of placing the wheres and whats in my tiny garden-to-be! this playing kept me off that other adventure just long enough to fully enjoy the challenge though. 
cheers, renilde ...