Beating the Heat

 

Things got ugly here yesterday. We're under a heat advisory and it's been HOT. We've been getting Pup out early-like last game World Cup early which usually ends around 9ish. Then we spend the rest of the long day rattling around the house trying to find something to do. 

Since I now have a designated messy room in the cool downstairs I've been doing some print making using my gel plates and some Distress ink. 

Ages ago I had a really nice art journal. This one. It got ruined by a certain kitty when a certain kitty got locked in the craft room by mistake one night. Years of work gone in a puddle of....well, you know. Ugh. While going through my stuff during the big room switch I found another blank one so I thought some prints would be a nice way to start it off. 

This mandala's been sitting on my work table for months and months. I was stuck on the last rings but it's finally done. I bought a white gel pen and it made all the difference.

I've started another by first adding some watercolor. I do one ring at a time and it takes forever but it's the drawing equivalent of stockinette in the round. Mindless and soothing.

And....I've been suffering over these building sketches. I've done the same facades over and over and still can't get those angles right. I was hoping to watercolor them one day but that's a long way off. I see a lot of perspective exercises in my future first. As long as I'm inside and the AC is running it's all good. Unlike most of the country our heat wave looks to be short lived. We're back in the 80's by tomorrow. I hope.