This has been a phenomenally busy week for me. Here’s a quick sketch of a horsie.
Artwork
Weekly Sketch: Still in Progress
I’ve been playing around with different art styles for this guy. This is an (unfinished) “coloring book” style, depicting the zebra exactly as he was painted in real life with minimal highlights and shading. I haven’t gotten all of his tack and jewels colored in yet.
Weekly Sketch: Carousel Zebra (Work in Progress)
We saw this guy on a boardwalk carousel on the Gulf coast just south of Houston. I like his face and his tack. I’m going to color him in, but I think he looks pretty cool as a line drawing too.
Categories: Animals, Artwork, Family, Holidays, kids, Life, Road trip, Travel
Tags: Kemah Boardwalk
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Weekly Sketch: Back in Business
My new Apple Pencil arrived today! I get to make real art again! For now, here’s a quick sketch of a filly scratching her nose, because it’s a school night and if I stay up late playing with my new toy I’ll regret it tomorrow.
Categories: Animals, Artwork, Horses, Life, Weekly Sketch
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Adventures in Nepal XVI: International Mountain Museum
January 27 was an eventful day in the Covid-19 saga. A prominent virologist in Hong Kong gave a three-hour presentation on YouTube basically warning everyone that the new virus was way worse than people thought. First cases popped up in a few more countries. The first confirmed asymptomatic transmission was reported in Germany. In the US, the Surgeon General dismissed the coronavirus as “low-risk” and urged Americans not to worry about it. The President was likewise unconcerned.
Emma and Elizabeth were following the news, but at that point it was an interesting story to monitor as it unfolded rather than something to actively worry about. This was they day they visited the International Mountain Museum.
They wandered for a bit, trying to find a bus going in the right direction.
Eventually they found a bus and got to the museum.
Adorable girls are adorable.
The museum grounds are lovely.
Blep!
This mandala is made entirely of colored sand!
Too sexy for my beads.
More derpy taxidermy.
Is…is that a Yeti?
This is a really pretty museum. I’m keeping this post reasonably short, but the girls took billions of great photos here.
There is a temple inside the museum.
Outside, a scale model of Mt. Manaslu and Machapuchare (Fishtail Peak, the highest point in the Annapurna range) lets visitors try their hands at mountain-climbing.
This was the girls’ last full day in Pokhara. On the 28th they returned to Kathmandu to begin the long journey home. I am so glad that they got to share this experience before the virus surged and the lockdowns started.
To be continued!
An Invincible Summer 