i cleaned my desk

yes, indeed.  it was getting a bit out of control.  animals tangled in the foliage, jumbled with the pens and pencils.

now that everything is all straightened out, i am ready to "draw draw draw".

look at her go...

 

 

sketchbook

i don't know how many sketchbooks i have going right now, but here are a couple pages from the orange one.

bouquet

doing business

the woman in white

by wilkie collins.  i really enjoyed this book.  finished it a couple days ago and have missed reading it since.  apparently, even after 609 pages i wasn't ready for it to be over.  my favorite (parts of) sentences:

"...and was then led into a large and lofty room where my supper was awaiting me, in a forlorn manner, at one extremity of a lonesome mahogany wilderness of dining-table"

"my emotions expressed themselves in pathetic apostrophes, which i was just self-possessed enough to couple..."

here are some sketches of a few of the characters.  they didn't look so cartoon-y in my head.