My sheet of natural ink samples is filling up (with a lot of yellows and browns)…

Practising making cordage from brown paper packaging

Playing around with my garden map pattern stamps in colour

My completed sheet of daily drawings from March

A bit of a rounding up week at the end of the month. I was quite relieved to complete my daily drawings… turns out the tonal pencil sketches are a little out of my comfort zone. It was good to challenge myself though, and a perfect month for slowing down and really looking at all the changes in the garden - a transformation from the start of the month to the end in terms of plant growth. I had a bit of a play with the garden map pattern rubber stamps I made - introducing colour overlays, which gives them a bit more potential interest. This definitely needs further investigation. I continued making cordage from brown paper packaging (during Zoom meetings, off-camera!) and seem to be slowly getting the hang of it through repetition. My ink sample sheet is filling up, but I’ve realised how very many yellows and browns I’ve been creating. Finally, I submitted a collage of ink sample off-cuts for the call-out for BABE2021 to #redesignarainbow set by Angie Butler… not quite a rainbow but certainly a spectrum of natural colour.