Do I need to have a theme?

"Seeing another person's point of view is a mixed blessing: a blessing when you can use it, a curse when you let it use you."

This is the first of 'the sayings of Laurel's Mum', I'm thinking of using them for title headings in the writing I'm going to do for Nowrimo. I'm giving Spink a rest cos I can't assess it or push it to the end at the moment.
The working title for this one is Laurel gets a job. I want to do it in first person, only one point of view and not too long - the 50,000 words should do it.

This is my favourite picture from last term's class.

Sue

Andy said that I have to start using more tones next term, I wasn't sure what he meant so I looked it up on t'internet. Tonal value is altered by adding more black, white or black and white, so now I know what it is and how I can move from the three he says I use to 7 or 8 - or at least start to. I do add white but I don't add black - or at least not knowingly!
Term starts at the end of the month. Hopefully I can both get some practice in before then and remember what I'm going to be doing when I get there!

This is from pinterest.

I've not been into pinterest long - it reminds me of looking through catalogues, sort of compulsive and full of that sort of inspiration that disappears as soon as I close it, but I do love all these felt things! Maybe I'll remember these for Christmas to combine with pajakis from the book Abigail got me last Christmas: 'Making Art from Maps' by Jill K Berry.

Here we go again

The new title sort of says why. And it's a new school year, my tenth since I retired. Maybe this is the year I learn persistence. I thought of carrying on with Little Weed but it seemed too much like hard work to remember how I formatted the posts, let alone any of the rest, so I decided to start again and this time maybe not get too fancy.

I have discovered that my laptop has a built in camera.

This is the last of my summer project -a series of prints as suggested by 'Artists & Illustrators' magazine.
I was going to do jugs but thoughts about  Kipling's Elephant's child and Henri Rousseau made me decide to do Sarawak instead.
I'm pretty sure rafflesia do grow in Sarawak though I can't remember seeing one. I wanted a carnivorous plant and pitcher plants were too hard and not colourful enough.
I do remember the gibbons and how one - at the sanctuary - got hold of the skirt of the girl who insisted that there was a proper way to boil eggs and the Malaysians didn't know how to do it. 🙊

I used acrylic paint and System 3 Block printing medium - which gives the paper a bit of a rubbery feel that I don't like, but it is much easier to clean up than the oil based ink I've got and it saves spending money and time looking for colours because I can use the paint I use for painting.
And I have just about got it done! There are 5 pics which fit together to make a 12" x 10" rectangle and separately have made enough notelets to last a life time.