Chickens and socks

I´ve stumbled across the Sketchbook Challenge webpage, and decided to have a go at that, time permitting. It fits in nicely with my working through the Water Paper Paint book by Heather Smith Jones, and the Drawing Lab book by Carla Sondheim. Above is a picture of one of today´s entries.

If I´ve understood this month´s Sketchbook Challenge theme correctly, it is about everyday things. So I´ve chosen socks. Or more precisely, in our house, our collection of individual ¨sock¨ singulars. Our washing machine never eats a pair, only one of each. Mustn´t want to get fat or something. I´m currently working on the ¨Working Wet onto Dry¨ exercise in the Water Paper Paint book, and this made me think about socks too (overpainting different colour socks).

Whanganui River, North Island, new Zealand

Pen and Watercolour drawings

I got the Water Paper Paint book by Heather Smith Jones for my birthday, so I´ve been experimenting with some india ink & watercolour sketches.


I´m still trying to find my own style for drawing kids. I´d also like to draw in a way that is translatable to linocuts. In the meantime I´ve had a go at drawing in the style of some of the kid´s books I´ve seen.



The plant on our table outside. Not sure what kind of plant it is. Some kind of succulent or other...

A small attempt at the Working Wet onto Dry exercise at the top from the Water Paper Paint book.

River near Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand