You may have thought I'd abandoned my "littles". Not so. But I have been busy with my drawing class and other things so I did not post as often as I often this time around. but I did complete one last night during a rain storm here at the cabin. As you can see this one went from mid July to mid September! But it still marks the time nicely for me with memories. I love looking at Dean's dog, Molly, who came for a visit and being reminded of the wild flowers (like Tansies and Butter and Eggs) of late summer and early fall. And that wild orange sunset was REALLY that color. It was just amazing.
I see the baby loon in the top right corner. The little loon is looking adult size now. The parents have been teaching it all summer. I think it is a "slow-learner". It seems everyone on the lake has been rooting for the little fella. I watched one afternoon while mother tried to teach it to dive and feed itself. (It much preferred being fed!) Now they are working teaching it to fly! It's not going well. They have to hurry up with this. October is just around the corner. (Loons are swimming birds and the flying thing is hard. They are heavy in the water and it takes them forever to get up out of the water.) Sometimes in late September they take a practice fly because they haven't been flying all summer.
This tiny little graphite sketch was my first attempt at using powdered graphite. This is applied to the paper before you start drawing and then darkened or lifted out as you go along. The birch and the road are lifted out. It's only 3 x 5" but I learned a lot as I went along. SO many things to learn about drawing! I have one more class on Tuesday.
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