Last sketches from the Book of April.

It was a bit wet, very windy and a beautiful month. And it seems so many things happened since then - vacation with sharks and turtles, adventures of many sorts, new friends, old friends - and I am still posting drawings from before :) But no more - tomorrow comes current sketchbook's stuff :)

Park People

Weekend parents are way more interesting to draw than a weekday. First of all - there are more of them, more Dads and more families, more interaction between all and more time spent in the park :)

Back form the Caribbean Adventure!

2013: Caribbean Adventure, a photo by apple-pine on Flickr.

And I am back from an amazing underwater adventure - with many many pages filled with notes, sketches and taped-in paged from the sketchbook which I kept during my dives!

Yes - drawing while scubadiving is an amazing experience! This is my second attempt to keep notes and draw under water. I used rite-in-the-rain sketchbooks and regular #2 pencil - just like the last time - but I also tried a red-and-blue pencil - and it was GREAT! Much softer lead was probably the most useful feature (no matter how soft the regular graphite pencil - it still feels very hard at the depth). But having some color was a blast! The only thing I would change is next time I would take several pencils with me on a trip - sea water and depth make pencils fall apart pretty quickly, not to mention runaway pencil ascents and pencils swimming away during boat boardings :)

All in all over 40 pages were filled and you can see many of the in the special set I created:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23173190@N07/sets/72157633458267134/with/8724434856/

And here are some of my favorite moments from seven days of liveaboard experience:




(Thank you Kate H. for the photo of me at work!)

March 2013: San Diego Zoo

We came pretty early and got to see many animals in very playful mode :)




Tones of feedings, cleanings - everyday life - including Mr. Lion grooming Mrs. Lion.

March-April 2013: Flowers

March 2013: Daily Drawings - Spring!

Cats are meowing, flowers are blooming, trees are getting greener by the minute :)

March 2013: Last Snow of the Season

It was warm and it was dark much much later - so we sketched more and longer, we made more and larger snow men-rabbits-snowzillas etc., chased more dogs and found more animals in the clouds. Great trip! Now - waiting for the next snow season ;)