Just an Art Day

All I did today was make art. No writing. No editing. I did print off the pages sent by my roundtable compatriots so that I could pre-read them before tomorrow's noon Zoom meeting.

First I opened 365 Days of Drawing to see what the daily prompt was. It said to draw zebra stripes using a pen and ink. I don't have a pen and ink but I do have an ink pen. I have several ink pens and I used one to draw a zebra and its stripes. I'm kind of amazed at the way it turned out. I confess that I called up a picture of a zebra on my phone and used it as a model but still, it isn't bad.

On the next page of my watercolor sketchbook I painted three Allium from Watercolor Flowers the Easy Way. They were surprisingly easy and I was pleased that I could make the little lines that formed the petals of the florets. My fine motor control of the brush is coming along.

Then I painted another Agapanthus on a postcard. It was a flower day. My brush control wasn't as good when it came to painting lines on the petals. Funnily enough I was using a smaller brush but got thicker lines. Go figure.

Since I have now finished both of the Creativebug watercolor classes, I let myself start the Basic Line Drawing class that I bought drawing paper and pens for a couple weeks ago. The first lesson was drawing a leaf, then leaves. They turned out okay.

And the Amazon delivery person brought the first copy of Better Than Mom's. Hooray! I was surprised to see that I forgot a table of contents so I went back into Kindle Direct Publishing and fixed it in both the eBook and paperback. I know that fiction books don't have to have tables of contents since the chapters don't have names, but I found that I missed it so I fixed it. I also redid the eBook cover design, kept the picture but chose a different layout that I like better. I think.

It was a fun, art-y day, and now it's snowing again. Arrgh. Maybe we won't get much.

--Barbara