November 30

Drawing assignment:  Draw a tote bag....  Mary

November 29

Assignment:  Draw something sweet....  Mary

November 28

Happy Thanksgiving!  The assignment: Draw something red.  Grosgrain ribbon gets its name from the French for course texture, gros grain.  Love learning the source of words....  Mary

November 27

Drawing assignment:  Draw a sponge....  Mary

November 26

Color something....  Mary

November 25

Assignment:  Draw a soda can....  Mary

November 24

Draw anything....  Mary

November 23

Draw someone's nose.  Today Monster and Maggie had an altercation under the dining room table.  Monster's nose bore the brunt of it, and Maggie is in the dog house over it....  Mary

November 22

Draw something cute.  This is in honor of the cutest thing in the world, little baby Emily who was born today.  Rick is now officially a great-uncle.  And his brother Bill got the most amazing birthday gift possible.  May Bill and Emily celebrate years and years of birthdays together....  Mary

November 21

Drawing assignment:  Draw a fan....  Mary

November 20

Assignment:  Draw something made of glass....  Mary

November 19

Draw something with spots.  This is a piece of one of the test daubing papers I use for watercolors.  These daubs are always so interesting, I save them for something.  Now I know what....  Mary

November 18

Draw something you don't see every day.  Fifty-one years ago in December my family went to California to visit my uncle's family.  One of the coolest things I remember from that trip was seeing the sea urchins in a tide pool on the Pacific.  I hadn't been back since until now.

This weekend Eileen and Warren took us to Santa Barbara.  We went to a beach at low tide and walked on the rocks, watched the shore birds, saw the sea urchins, watched the sunset, and found starfish hanging onto rocks....  Mary

November 17

Assignment:  Draw a glove.  Back to November in Wisconsin from sunny CA.  And yet it was 55 degrees in Madison this morning, and 54 degrees in LA.  Go figure?  Mary

November 16

Draw a butterfly.  Eileen gave me this feather butterfly years and years ago....  Mary

November 15

Draw a candle.... Mary

November 14

Drawing assignment:  Draw a camera....  Mary

November 13

Assignment:  Draw something with holes....  Mary

November 12

Assignment:  Draw a found object.  This is an enameled zipper pull that I found in the parking lot of the Quilt Museum in Cedarburg....  Mary

November 11

Draw something wooden.  This is the wooden handled, leather awl that I use for so many things.  I've had it forever....  Mary

November 10

Drawing assignment:  Draw a nut(meg)....  Mary

November 9

Assignment:  Draw something sticky.  Post-its, of course....  Mary

November 8

Assignment:  Draw something with a handle.  Technically, I suppose, the entire emery board is a handle.  And this one is printed to look like a quilt....  Mary

November 7

Assignment:  Draw something yellow, so I drew the ubiquitous yellow cloth measuring tape....  Mary

November 6

The assignment tonight was to draw some hair.  Nothing has more hair than Monster....  Mary