Photo of the Day, Drawing in Life, and more WC Attempts

First of all let me say I loved all the comments on the frog's teeth. I love it when a photo can generate such conversation. Today's photo is of a very young hummingbird on what I think might be his visit to our hummingbird feeder:

Isn't he a little fatty?

Yesterday I spent much of the day with a dear friend in Ann Arbor sketching outdoors and at Borders Book Store. I don't know that my sketching has improved at all, but I didn't feel quite so awkward while trying to sketch my surroundings. Here is what I saw and drew:

I started with a pencil, but found I was using the eraser too much so switched to pen.

Last weekend, I tried to make a WC of a early morning scene that I captured in a photo, but really messed it up and then overworked it all to pieces. It has been sitting on my work table for days waiting for me to decide what I was to do with it. I decided to take a leaf from Cheap Joe Miller's book and get a small mat and try to find some part of the awful painting that might not be all that bad in isolation.

So here is the painting in all it's awfulness:

And here are two isolated parts (both from the same portion of the original, but in different orientations):

Today I am hoping to make a small watercolor that I will like much better and I will share it with you tomorrow.

But first I will finish my second mug of coffee, eat a banana and hit the treadmill. Then the rest of the day is mine to do as I please. I do hear some hollering from the dust in the living room and the crumbs on the kitchen floor, but will try to block them out until I get some art done.

xoxo