A bench near the Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum that houses the Samurai Collection in Dallas, Texas.

Formerly a tree
A bench near the Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum that houses the Samurai Collection in Dallas, Texas.

Formerly a tree

The candle came with it.
National Cupcake Day was February 29th and my online sketch/watercolor instructor challenged her students to celebrate it.
What’s in your neighborhood?

My local dragon

My, what big claws you have!
Cee’s Photo Challenge for this week is Sepia Tones Only. This is my first effort at changing a color photograph to sepia tones. Thank goodness for the Internet because I would never have figured out how to do it just by roaming around the photo editing software.

Lesson 6 of my online sketch and watercolor class is the last lesson. The subject: machine-made objects. This turned out to be difficult for me to choose an object, as I kept wandering around the house, rejecting most items “too hard to draw” (this included many glass objects).

The ceramic cat was a gift from a friend many years ago. Usually the objects I sketch and watercolor are larger than my sketch; not this time. The watercolor paper is 5×7 inches.

A ceramic cat