I don't want to jinx it, but I've been drawing in my sketchbook every day since starting this one on March 26.

Daily drawing or doing a daily "thing" isn't necessary for me - I have a regular practice of making things, but trying to do it daily is (usually) too much pressure. 

But I like it when my sketchbook feels like it's my best friend and I tell it a little about my day.

Sketching imagery from our trip to Newfoundland has taken me in an unexpected direction. I'm working in an 8 x 10 Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbook and just going through my sketchbooks and pictures from the trip and filling pages with images.

I expected to continue this and start to notice compositions making their way into my sketches. 

What I didn't expect was to need to make things other than a composition for a painting - one day in the studio I found myself drawing this house and then cutting it out so that it stands on its own.

Then I started to look at other shapes from my sketchbook - shapes that were a part of every day when we were in Newfoundland (see my previous post on shapes) - and to play around with those.

I ended up with a new shape that still gives me the feeling of the shape it was derived from. I'm now working on making this into something more - stay tuned for updates!

The evolution of these shapes reminds me what is so great about having a regular art practice. Most of this was just fooling around until something sparked my curiosity and I thought, what if I did this or made it into that? That's how this process works - you just keep working (fooling around) until you get something that you need to do more of.