A Tile Pattern

And then, after drawing the giraffe, I put my sketchbook away, to concentrate on watching football. Suddenly I dashed for the paper again! I could see in my mind's eye the tile pattern for the hall threshold, which is the last little bit of tiling we have to do.

Six-inch tiles form the outer two lines, and I have just enough teeny tiles left from the other threshold pattern into the kitchen to make a line in the middle. I see the two darker lines as being custom-cut from the remains of the darker tiles. With the standard sizes of the six inchers and the teeny ones, I can vary the width as necessary of the darker ones to get the proper coverage.

Pen Sketch Giraffe

What if all you drew on the giraffe were its dark spots? I tried this and it was pretty cool. I stopped looking at the outline of the animal and just put the dots in the position they seemed to go. Not bad.

Pen Sketch Rocks

Cross hatching with the V7 pen was interesting; using the side of the point was almost like using a pencil. The only interesting element on the page of my travel guide prompter was a pile of rocks.

I decided to use a pen in these sketches to force myself to not think about erasing. When I draw with pencil, I tend to be very timid and tentative.

Pen Sketch Elephant

So I have to add these pics in some order.

I've been watching Alex with her sketchbook in her lap, busily sketching away while she sort of watches television. I decided to try this myself.

I used a V7 Precise pen from Pilot, and a AAA travel guide for prompts, vowing to take some element from each page for sketching.