Monochromatic #8-Watercan Man in His Flowerbed.

My Feet

Busy Squirrel Checking Out My Relatively New Corn Wreath

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Monochromatic #7-Purple Paisleys.

Monochromatic #6-Neighbors in Green.

The 6th entry in my "monochromatic" themed
sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project 2012 is a view
of our neighbor's houses from our back porch in
gouache.

Monochromatic #5-Yellows.

A collage of yellow with gouache.

Monochromatic #4-Telephone Blues.

After a bit of a break from the Sketchbook
Project, I've started back up.  My theme
for this book is "monochromatic" and I've
been working on it page by page in proper
sequence.  In the 2011 Sketchbook Project
I worked throughout the book at random.

Bullfrogs

Bullfrogs at a supermarket.

Well, Summertime is Over.

Summer is almost over.  I grew some tomatoes,

saw some penguins at the Maryland Zoo,

watched the elephants go for a swim on one of the
hottest days in Baltimore while running the youth activities
for the OI International Convention,

rode the Trailblazer (my favorite roller coaster because
of the nice trees) twice at Hershey Park,

fed some ducks,

rode the monorail,

taught a non-traditional printing workshop at MICA,
visited with good friends and family, made some art,
read a lot of books, and on the last day of summer vacation
I bailed out the cellar stairwell during an intense thunderstorm
after grocery shopping.  Overall, action packed and time
well spent.