Woolgathering

Last November I stumbled upon Elizabeth Perry’s blog of daily drawings. They struck me immediately as visual haiku — capturing a small moment in Elizabeth’s day. At the same time, my husband and i had just brought home our 2 new kittens, who left a bit of themselves everywhere — a button abandoned after a round of kitty soccer, a wet paw print on the sliding glass door into the backyard, a little head poking out of the curtains of the front window… I thought these might be easy enough for me to draw and be a good practice to complement my haiku writing. So off and on since December I’ve been slowly filling a notebook with line drawings.
Reading Elizabeth’s blog has helped keep me drawing — reminding me to look around at the little things that make up my day (and are easy enough to draw that someone might recognize the object if they peeked in my book!) That’s one of Elizabeth’s drawings above — probably my favorite so far. It’s from December 23rd and called feet up; she says about it “Wrapping done? No…I’ll get to it, though, really. No, really. After I’m done listening to this song.” Recently she completed her 1500th drawing and has a nice post about that anniversary and her drawings.