Trying Something New....

When we lived in New Castle, Delaware I took a drawing class at the Delaware Art Museum. I really had fun using just pencils and trying to learn to shade and highlight whatever I was trying to draw. But this little "hobby" took back seat to moving aboard the sailboat and coming back to dry land to really get into quilting.

Last month I found a drawing class at the North Shore School for Seniors just up the road. The class was only one month long so I decided to enroll and dust off my pencils (actually I had to buy new ones). The first class was interesting with the instructors demonstrating different kinds of shading and having us all attempt to duplicate their efforts on our own papers. We had to draw a basket using our non-dominant hand  (not easy) and tried some line drawings where we never let our pencil leave the paper. Exercises to get us to loosen up.

I came home that week and decided to try to do something on my own. I took my 75 year old teddy bear, Randolph Geremiah, off the bedroom cupboard and set him up on the dining room table. And every morning for the next week I'd sit down and try to add to my attempt. 

It was fun and frarnkly, I was happy with the results. I won't be giving up my quilting, but this fun and easily portable hobby will now be something else I can do in the weeks/year ahead. Randolph is back on the cupboard and I am not working on a drawing of our big kitchen piggy bank!