Journaling and Flowers ~ March

 

* Note: I had no internet last week, am catching up on comment replies from previous post!

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Hi everyone! Just catching up on Scribble Journal/ Nature Journal today. It is chilly with a chance of rain later, but mostly we are just totally bewildered [as usual] by the ''spring forward'' clock changes.

Poor Mo, his lovely weekend walker came at noon, her way of adjusting his time set, but I have gotten him up early super early! so that he'd he perky and ready an hour early. Pretty sure he didn't care either way, as breakfast was served on time.

I'm still enjoying my art journals. I have never been good at a daily recording of my [small boring quotidian] world, but I am ok at doodling things that interest me, no schedule enforced.

My all time favorite journaling project was the Circle Journals I shared with my mom for about the last ten or so years of her life. They are ''circle in the sense that they circle back and forth to the journalers, they are not round. 

You can still find the kits online sometimes, though the publisher of the actual books has long since gone out of business. We'd write back and forth, sometimes a prompt, sometimes photos, drawings, scrapbook stuff. Each person kept the books for a month. I have all the journals, I cherish them, stored in their pretty box, but have never looked at them since my mother died. Much too sad/ maybe someday? I hope my kids keep the books when I too die, maybe not to read but as recorded lives at the Millennium? Circle Journal   

Anyway, the Covid years got me drawing and sketching again. Instagram excels in artists and their journals, inspiring if intimidating.  [the site is not just big butt women posting duck faces]

This is my perpetual nature sketch book's beginning. Year one. I have accepted that the project leaders are often professional botanical realism artists; I try not to compare. Photorealism has never been my artistic gift.

Pages:

Pages and inspirations:

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And here are March's Scribble Journals. The first is mainly quotes, me venting my irritation in my notebook, instead of writing scathing mean girl responses online.

Then this past week or two:

 

I plan to go back to using colored pencils and markers for Scribbles; the watercolors buckle the paper too much. They are beautiful for the Nature Journal though, as it has thick watercolor paper despite its tiny size.

There are many beautiful inspiring journals on etsy: HERE  and ideas online. How fun it would be to have an art journal pen pal! here

And you must note Julierose's fabulous artist trade cards she is making on a vintage Rolodex reel. here

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Flowers

As my bulbs garden has faded I treated myself to glorious bouquets at Trader Joe's last week. Tulips, a double bunch, 10.99.

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Yellow ranunculus, [egg yoke yellow, like sunshine], only 3.99 a bunch.

Now a final tiny bouquet as I eke out every last joy filled bloom in grey March.

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I think t's time for me to walk Mo...not sure. He is sound asleep though, and snoring , lol.

have a great week!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach...

So excited for the Oystercatchers' return on Wednesday, St Paddy's Day. I am scanning the skies every morning. Harbingers of summer to come.

Bulbs update:

The blue amaryllis is growing. No sign of a bud though.

My tulps from last Easter. From the grocery store! The delivery guy brought them for me for Easter/ Equinox. I am very pleased that they are regrowing and blooming.