Today’s poem, “I married my wife on Sunday” was probably the biggest challenge of this challenge yet not just that It was hard to squeeze in the whole narrative (doing it in a half hour made it sloppy) but also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a bad feeling that this one, March wind and April Showers is the first dud of the batch. I blame being a very simple image which I rushed on making a huge mess.
With this one, “Winter’s Thunder” I’ve had two nature rhymes in a row… I think this one came out a lot better though it’s kind of hard to do a oncoming thunderstorm with a pencil… monochrome really doesn’t do them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow, after a week of this we come to the first rhyme I’ve heard of, Tweedledum & Tweedledee… As a fan of Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel I know them well, to the point that it’s easy to forget the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I just started my new sketchbook with “Pussy Sit’s by the Fire” and I am feeling nicely smug. This is definitely my best one yet, and considering I said that yesterday this is a good sign for the rest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well with the ninth rhyme in this sketch challenge, Oh Rare Harry Parry, we come to yet another one I’ve never heard of, and another that asks the question, “were these ever meant for kids?” wiith the subject being what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I won’t say this illustration of poem #7 in The Annotated Mother Goose, “When I was a little boy”, is another dud, but it did not inspire at all. The only things I can say about it, beyond filling in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well with Jack and Gill I came to the second one in this sketch challenge that I had heard of, and with this being on the top ten list of most generic nursery rhymes I was not looking forward to it…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, If you find a Hairpin, was one of those gems where you know what you’re going to put onto paper within five seconds of looking at it. Regrettably in my confidence I had a nice relaxed breakfast and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It didn’t help that I was distracted by ongoing tech support emails, but today’s rhyme There was a lady skin and bone, was a pain! While I’m finding it useful to include the poems with the sketch, when there’s more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
