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“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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In Which the Blog reach 950 posts! A lovely Holiday Season approaches!

Good morning, my dear friend, and I wish you a happy Wednesday! How are you, this fine hour? As for me, I am okay, just waking up, really. The weather here is one of quiet transition, to spring. I can still use thicker blankets, but the days are longer, and the sun is more bright. Not exactly a good thing, I don't like summer, that is approaching. The only saving grace is to have Christmas season also upon us, the season of 2026! And all the memories of happy summer vacations, with the christmas trees and the great deal of lovely santas around it. Grandma used to go all in for the decor. How I miss it... I pray I can emulate it, when I can. Today, grandma is 82 years old, she is aging, as it rarely can be helped. She is tired, and she lives in an apartment nowadays, as such, she does not do the Christmas stuff as vigorously as some years before, alas.  There is no such thing as forsaking the long holiday tradition just because "times changed", whatever that means. No. Jus...

Sketch of the week! In which we talk about the small prairie!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Good afternoon to you! How are you today and how are things going? As usual, I wish you the best and hope your day is being really nice! For me, April ended with my charger breaking, which sucks, but May started with a small Holiday and some rain, which is nice! In those days, the pattern was this: the day would be nice, something in the night would ruin me. But anyway, here I am, wonderful to be here, wonderful to see you! It is odd how quietly April went away giving its place to May, let us see how it goes. Happy May to you!
I am trying to make at least one drawing per week, my productivity is down as I don't have too much free time and the heat is killing me, I think much of the drop of my production is due to the fact I'm doing more stuff on my free time, I just have to balance it more, something I'm trying to do, I have never been really good at time management, with this change of schedule this really caught me off guard! But anyway, I am also trying new ideas and keep on going even if not doing 6 drawings a day as I used to at some point in July 2018... maybe on this upcoming corn season I will be able to catch but, but let us see... But anyway, let me share the drawing with you guys!


The picture is not wonderful, but I hope it is enough to show the drawing to you guys, I did a tree without doing its shape on ink, instead only relying on the color pencils, and here I decided to expand this, inspired in a small doodle I did in my sketchbook of a yellow tree with some purple flowers in them, the tree on this sketch goes to have leafs in a very light green, followed by a more coniferous tree, and my traditional one on the far left. I also included some small bushes and some background, though I really didn't want to go too heavy on it at all, I gave the floor some red flowers and the tree has blue flowers, instead of purple ones. I also did the grass with the most light green available to me, to give it some more freshness. And so we have a landscape, maybe next to some nice houses, maybe this is next to the park where people like to walk by! Still have much to do with the trees, but I am happy with the direction this sketch went, not imediately, but as time went by I appreciated more! The last tree is somewhat inspired in a tree present in the south of America, including Argentina, Paraguay and parts of Brazil, one that it is called Handroanthus Albus, or IpĂŞ Amarelo (Yellow IpĂŞ). IpĂŞ Amarelo is how I come to know this tree! It is quite an iconic one, as it becomes filled with flowers at some points of the year, like a cherryblossom tree, though it doesn't bear edible fruits I'm afraid, here's a picture of it so you guys can know what I'm talking about!


I do find this tree to be quite lovely! I even will see if I can manage to portray it into my drawings in the future, but well, I think this is it for today! Amazing being here writing again! Thank you so much for being here, you are the very best and I am so grateful! You are the very best!!! See you again sometime soon and stay safe!

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