EDM 154: Draw or paint a lemon and journal about lemon memories

I did 2 pastel paintings of a trio of lemons in my brown craft paper notebook that I got when we were going to Wales. The pastel sits really nicely on the paper – much better than the watercolour pencil which had a bit of a struggle. The first one I tried without much smudging, the second one quite smudgy and a little more adventurous with the colour.

I don’t know that I have any lemon stories. We had a great bush lemon in the garden when I was growing up and I liked to eat them, but these lemons are not those lemons, so I kind of skipped the journaling part of it and just stuck with the lemons.

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Doodled a little on the piano

And recorded it into Finale. Nothing that sounds particularly useful, but it felt good to be fiddling about a bit again. I played some Bach, Mozart and some of my eggs afterwards too, which I haven’t done in ages.

A sideline: Post number 100!!

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Ordered new stuff from Amazon

I seem to be on a bit of a spending spree which I have worked out is largely because I miss my stuff in Australia. Anyway, I cut back on the things I wanted to buy (huuuge list) to order Nigella Express, Nigella Lawson’s latest book which is all about fast food, Step-by-step art school: Watercolour which I’ve had borrowed from Pitshanger Library since before Christmas and is excellent, so for £6-odd I figured I might as well own it rather than accumulating that much in library fines when I forget to renew, and Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms which I’ve never thought much about until it somehow became lodged in my brain a few weeks ago and now I must have it. Hmm. Odd.

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Messed about with watercolour

On the new page for this week’s listening in my composition journal. Might do some collage on top of it.

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