Today my friend Rachel and I took DART from Dublin to Killiney; walked to Dalkey via the beach, Bono’s house, and the Queen Victoria obelisk; took DART again from Dalkey to Bray; took the Cliff Walk to Greystones; ate fish and chips on the beach while a movie or TV show was being filmed behind us; ate tea and cake; and then went to catch the train back to Dublin.
We waited a long, long, long time for the train.
I decided to do something a little different today. I’m mad at my charcoal pencils. I have to sharpen them like every 2 seconds, so today I used a nice pen I bought yesterday at a Black Friday sale at my art store. I used to only draw in pen anyways. So this is the jade plant on my dresser. I added color with Photoshop.
My basil is growing quite well now. Yesterday I made our first batch of pesto for this summer. Not a great drawing, but the pesto was nice.
I was busy editing images so I asked my friend to make a drawing for today. Here is her contribution to Drawmo!
Black pen drawing of my hedge, which is growing very quickly (its about four metres tall now) (about twelve feet or so.)
Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey.
My first colored pencil drawing this year. The colors are quite wrong — the selection I have is small and I haven’t quite worked out blending and drawing lightly — the but effect is kind of right anyway.
For the full explanation of why I call this “the John Cleese plant,” please see My Brilliant Mistakes.
It was just one of those days. Couldn’t think of anything I wanted to draw – didn’t want to think! So, I decided not to try and just do instead. Drew a cartoon of flowers and then used the prismacolor pencil as if they were crayons in a kid’s hand. Well, at least, the passive-aggressive coloring made me feel better.
When I was a little girl in primary school in Sydney on the eleventh of November we wore a little sprig of rosemary, for Remembrance Day. So this is what I drew today, in black pen, with a bit of bucket fill.
DrawMo! 
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