Two daily projects for the new year !

Many many thanks to Cathy Cullis's very inspiring and generous blog post ! : here

This year, I decided to spend 10 minutes everyday to draw a plant with a pencil.  

Simple and short time but everyday.

I have not done observation drawings for years! I tend to draw from imagination and memories. Maybe I have been avoiding? I think it will be a good exercise for me.

The outcomes (the pages) are not much to look at, really.  But during this 10minutes that I am focused on how line flows in the plant's shape, much beauty is discovered. 

Nowadays when I see beautiful things in everyday life, I just use a digital camera and click, click, take photos and most likely just get stored in my hard drive. This is bit sad. (although I am so grateful that digital cameras exist)

Trying to go back to an old and slower way to connect to and appreciate beautiful things around me. 

Just my eyes and a pencil to be with the beautiful lines exist in the nature. I think it is rather nice :)

You can find all my sketches to date here -> : Daily Sketches of Plants

The other project this year is : sketchbookproject by Art House Co-op.

I've signed up to do a small 32pages sketchbook under the theme "Create and Capture". 

If you have not heard of this, you might like to watch the videos on the website. Open for anyone and everyone. I thought the project sounds exciting to participate and that having a deadline (end of April) will help me to stick to it.  Anyone interested? It is not too late to start now. 

In this, I am making collage work of drawings, photos of clay work in progress. Sort of documenting the journey of my porcelain bell making but hopefully like a story. I am hoping that after having done this exercise, I will be more confident to start making zines, which is out of my comfort zone at the moment...


Feeling rather ambitious with the new year just started - but I think I caught cold my body is aching.  I think I need to go to bed :( 


Have a nice day :)


Erin