Savour the flowers...

A rhyming catalyst finally came along...
I wrote another little short story, but took the name of previous little character I wanted to write about.
So this is the new and improved and repurposed Sunny! Her little story is Sunny's Garden. I have bound the book for her story and now I just have to finish illustrating, then write all the text inside...

This is the last image in the story. I thought it worked nicely with Illustration Friday's theme this week: savour.
So here is Sunny savouring the treasures from her garden....

Oh Toscana...

Fall is nearly over. It's becoming harder to find free days of good weather sit outside long enough to get a good sketch. We've had a few in these past weeks that I was able to take advantage of.

I also found a bottle of brown India ink...that for some reason, looks purple on paper!
This one is from the courtyard here at Santa Chiara.

Every spring and fall semester, the RCs put together a memory book of photos of the students and their travels through Europe. Past memory books have all had the same cover, a photo of the courtyard years ago with the old oak tree in it. Well, the oak tree is long gone. So I made this watercolor for this years fall memory book.

Last week, I travelled with the Cal Poly students to visit San Gimignano. The town is known for its collection of medieval towers.

But also...for the views of the surrounding valleys...

Another 'brown' India ink painting....of Arezzo.

WCW - Children Playing

This is my latest submission to Watercolor Wednesdays. The theme for this week was: Children playing.
It reminded me of how much I used to love playing with boxes and cardboard, and also how, as kids, we were always quarantined outside to play while the adults cooked our holiday dinners!

Alphabet...

Design Sponge is hosting an Alphabet contest. I used to make up alphabets and typefaces when I was little, though I usually never finished all 26 letters...