Yet another blonde moment.

My close friends know that I'm a blonde

in every sense of the word.

I could have black hair and I'd still be 'blonde'.

I'm doing the Seeing lessons

at Sketchbook Skool and this week I had to 

put three items together and draw the basic shapes

using one continuous line,

with a water soluble pen. Then 

colour it with water colours.

Simple you'd think.

Do you think I could find a water soluble

pen in this entire house.

All of little miss's felt pens have dried up 

and everything I own is permanent ink.

My first idea was to use my Inktense

water colour pencils.

You get used to wonky pics as I sure I hold my head sideways.

 This looked okay until I added water

and the colour went every where.

So I decided to just colour it in

but I couldn't use that for my homework.

I got bored with this and didn't refine it. So good enough will do.

Next I decided to use a pitt pen to at least 

start some practise sketches.

Still wonky but getting better.

Then I drew up the sketch

of what will be the finished

continuous line drawing,

when I get a water soluble pen.

 Not too shabby.

Remember this has to be done 

with one continuous line,

no lifting of pens.

That is really hard when you have 

the attention span of a gnat.

I'm happy with the composition

now all I have to do is get a soluble pen

and use the same set up of things

to draw it up again.

Then came my blonde moment.

I was cutting up the veggies for dinner

and yes you guessed it,

stupid here cut up that gorgeously

angled piece of pumpkin.

It is three quarters of the way through

my families digestive tract and

I really don't want to draw it now.

Just lucky I have the sketches

to use for the finished product.

I'll just wing the colours and shading

for the water colour part.

The moral of this story

is that

veggies are bad for art

and chocolate rules!

Hey, you eat chocolate before you have

 a chance to sketch it so you never ruin

 a painting that way.