The other day I got a nice shipment of new art supplies. Among them were two new little Moleskine watercolour/sketch books. One is little (3.5 x 5.5 inches) and the other a bit larger (5 x 8 inches). I also got some new Pigma pens. My old ones had all dried up or run out. I plan to carry the littlest one around with me, along with pen. I also plan to do one drawing a day this month. I haven't done a lot of just drawing, and thought that would make a good summer project.

Today as I was walking home from piano lessons, I found this nice big pine cone on the grass by the sidewalk. A house in the neighbourhood has a good sized jack pine. So I brought it home and decided that it would be number one. I used my littlest Moleskine and sketched it with the pen, and then decided to add a little colour. I used my Derwent Inktense pencils - you colour with them, then add a bit of water and they are like watercolour/ink. I also want to use the various pencils I have, including the Inktense, the watersoluble graphite and graphitint pencils (all from Derwent).

So this month I'll play with these and see what happens. It should be fun and something quite different for me.

PS - you can see them posted on my flickr site as they go up - Lorraine's flickr site