A Rock… or maybe a potato….

I really need to start checking out this list earlier in the day.  You would think 63 days into this I would know better.  Tonight’s challenge, “Draw what you would pick up on a nature walk”, would have worked out better if I could have gone on a nature walk to pick something up.  As it is, I went with one of Girl2’s rocks.  Being as close to the ground as she is, she sees treasures everywhere.  Smooth and sparkly rocks are especially interesting to her.  If she keeps collecting them the way she does, in another year or so I’ll have all of the garden stones from the school to decorate my own yard with.

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EDM 63: Draw something you would pick up on a nature walk.

Different Medium

Tonight, I am obsessed with a different medium.  Tonight, I am taken with the printed word.  Last night we went for coffee at Barnes & Noble and I was able to obtain the latest paperback of The Dresden Files.  My wife and mother are waiting, impatiently I might add, for me to finish with it so they can have their turn.  I think when I’m done, I will toss it up in the air and watch ’em fight for it.

Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a previous challenge in a different medium.  I went back to the fall leaf in watercolor pencil.

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EDM 62: Draw a previous challenge in a different medium

Definitely Spring

It hasn’t been out of the 40’s all week long, and in the last two days, it hasn’t gotten out of the 30’s.  However, tomorrow there’s an expected high of 50ºF and on Sunday, it’s supposed to be into the 60’s.  Look at tonight’s EDM challenge, draw a group of similar items, and see if you can figure out what my plans are for Sunday.

The best part is that I will wake up Girl1 at 6am and drag her out to caddie for me.

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EDM 61: Draw a group of similar items

Something Spring

All of the news programs have been giving “spring break” weather.  I had to go to Wal*Mart to get dog food.  As I drove into the parking lot, the marquee for the local college was announcing spring break.  Inside, the swimsuit mannequins are out.  As I’m typing this it is 31°F outside.  When I came home to see tonight’s challenge was to draw something “Spring”, it was like it was decided for me.  I did a quick google search for “Spring Break”.  Goodness, I couldn’t put that on my site.  So I opted for the swimsuit mannequins.

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EDM 60: Draw something “Spring”

Headgear

When I saw tonight’s EDM challenge, draw headgear, I have to admit I immediately thought of braces.  Having just spent the afternoon with a dental hygienist prying my gums away from my teeth with a metal spike so she could shoot cold water directly on my nerves, dentistry was already on my mind. She did a good job, though and didn’t hurt me as much as most of the other beautiful women in my life.  AND it was way cheaper.

The ride home, however, was a challenge.  As you probably know by now, I sing while I ride my motorcycle.  We had a cold snap come through yesterday.  So, I’m cruising along with freshly cleaned teeth, starting to sing and an arctic blast hits my newly exposed, cold sensitive teeth.  I just hummed the rest of the way home.  As a matter of fact, I ended up having to take a VERY hot bath just to feel functional again.  Just think, in two months we will have triple digits and get to *WISH* for this weather.

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EDM 59: Draw headgear