Jan 26, 2022

For Barbara's birthday we went to "Out of Africa" for the day.  It was sunny and warm.  We saw most of their animals and snakes.  Afterwards we went to a BBQ restaurant in Camp Verde for a bbq rib dinner.

On the 11th we went to Chandler for 3 nights.  We met friends from the art group in Casa Grande & friends who are rvers & went to see The Eddie Basha Art Collection of western art.  Both Barb & I took photos to use as references for our own art projects.

After the art gallery we went to Organ Stop Pizza for dinner.  They have a huge pipe organ and the organist has a great repertoire of songs, past & present. 

The next day we went to the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix.  Another very nice day, sunny & warm.  I did a couple of plein air sketches:

and after we got home I did a pen & ink wash drawing:
I bought 2 Dinky Dips that hold 4 glass bottles of ink each.  They are perfect to use with my dip pens.

After sketching the waterfall I mixed inks on a palette to brush on the color.  I can use my watercolor brush to do the mix.

I have been sketching people to put in some of my urban sketches.  Soon I will go to town to try sketching from life.

Here is another building I sketched from a tutorial on Etchr Studio

Barbara is having fun knitting socks & getting ready for planting spring flowers.

Our weather has been good, mostly sunny days with low 30s overnight.  We have had a few rainy days but it is much needed.

Hopefully, I will not take so long before next post.

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