The Intuition

Ink: Private Reserve Black Cherry

The boats are out!
As the weather turns warm, I like to sit outside and draw the boats in the marina.  Boats fascinate me, from the lowliest kayak to seafaring giants.

Anything that will take you somewhere, really.  Boats, planes, trains, etc, etc.  You get inside, and it takes you somewhere.  Trains don't stand still long enough to draw them and planes, well, the TSA wouldn't like me loitering in airports...

So I draw the boats in the marina.

Easter Painting WIP

Second pass on the painting I started last week.  (Missed it?  Here's the post.)
It's coming together pretty well, I think.  I introduced two new colors and added some depth to the mug/coaster situation.  The handle's a bit wonky, but I can fix that after it dries completely.  Don't like your acrylic painting?  Wait ten or twenty minutes and paint over it.

If you're wondering about my weird paint palette, it is a Fage yogurt lid.  Funny story about that...

I have spent literally hours of my life, possibly even days, scraping paint off a glass palette just to put more paint on it.  One day I got so fed up with it that I grabbed a clear tub lid out of my recycling bin and used that instead of spending another hour in the sink with the glass palette that I'd come to despise.

The yogurt lid worked like a charm, and when it got too cruddy to continue using, I tossed it out and got another.  I still have a bunch of them hanging around, but I've since stopped buying yogurt because dairy isn't Paleo.

So what can I use that is similar to a Fage yogurt lid without buying yogurt...

Clear plastic disposable plates.  The best disposable palette money can buy is 40 cents a pop at most grocery stores.  Take that, "palette paper" pads.


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Now, it's Easter, and I love everything about peeps except eating them.  Sugar coated sugar with so much food coloring you can actually taste it?  Really?  Why do I like these things?  I usually buy one pack, eat three or four of them, and toss the rest out.  This year, I got a tiny peep plush instead.  He's so nice.  He even stands up on his own.

When I went to move my hydrangea off the glass table (I buy them every year... love the smell) before I could start painting, I noticed a funny lump on the outside of the pot.  I pulled back the paper and found a little green shoot there.

There's a secret daffodil growing out of the hole on the bottom of the pot!  I have never seen a plant do this before.

If you celebrate Easter, I hope you're having a wonderful holiday.  If you don't, there's no reason not to enjoy the chocolate!