A Prickly, Tickly, Sticky Situation

With today’s prompt words — tired, ship, prickly, tasty, tree — our search went directly to the prickly ash tree.…

Just For the Fun of It

When Cheeky Monkey Mind suggested yesterday that today’s drawing should have twelve — yes, count ’em, twelve — trees, I…

I had high hopes for today’s Inktober drawing. It’s a tree, of course, a mango tree, to be specific, and…

Today, Cheeky Monkey Mind and I followed a little trail that led to an expensive ghost tree. Yes, those were our…

You’ve probably heard that old expression: Fool me once…Shame on you! Fool me twice…Shame on me! Accordingly, I’m to blame…

On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy spoke these famous words: We choose to go to the moon in this…

I’ve written before of zen and drawing. For me, it seems to occur most often when I’m drawing something from nature, especially…

There is a road my husband and I often drive down, and each year in the spring, we admire the…

Today’s Inktober drawing — from the prompt words battle, graceful, swollen, ornament, tree — is definitely the messiest drawing I’ve…

Oh, so much to say about today’s drawing. As I worked on this, I realized that this drawing represents the…

So, where did today’s prompt words take Cheeky Monkey Mind and me? Those words — relax, mysterious, weak, legend, tree…

TODAY’S SILLY SEARCH WORDS: Tree, fierce, clock, overgrown. Cheeky Monkey Mind and I ended up sunning ourselves today in the…

I’m sure you probably guessed the outcome of today’s search words — scared, teeming, guarded, ash, tree. With ash thrown…

I know last month I said that you probably wouldn’t be seeing any stippling during Inktober, but, yes, what you’re…

TODAY’S SILLY SEARCH PROMPT WORDS: Transport, run, cruel, snow, tree. Those words led Cheeky Monkey Mind and me to the…

Today’s drawing is one of the worst I’ve done in these first ten days of Inktober. Even so, I’m proud…

Today’s drawing of a Velvet Mesquite tree (Prosopus velutina) will probably be one of my favorite Inktober drawings. Although it…

Today’s drawing was a disappointment. Again, it was one of those fairly simple drawing projects, and I didn’t anticipate too many…

Today’s drawing comes straight from the orange groves of California, but I really have no idea how I got here.…

First, today’s ridiculous prompt words: hidden, sword, drooling, husky, tree. Okay, so how exactly did those words (taken from the…