Arkansas Adventure Day Seven Part II

This evening Joanna and I planned a meal and cooked it together. It is one of those things that we have always said we wanted to do together, but it is just another thing for which we never have time at school.

Here's a short list of some of those things:
- Cook Together (Check!)
- Watch Episodes of Miranda Hart's Show
- Go Hiking
- Make Macaroons 
- Take a Martial Arts Class
- Go For a Joy Ride While Blasting Music

Yesterday Joanna got out her big Julia Child cookbooks and a couple others. She sat down in a big chair and began to map out our plans for our dinner. We decided on this menu:

I am currently digesting this gourmet meal and Joanna just slipped away to change into a looser fitting garment in order to accommodate the recentness expansion of her waistline. She toiled for four hours on this meal. I helped a lot, but she really did the bulk of the work. We shared it with two of her six sisters, her mother and a special family friend. 

It was like Babette's Feast, in the amount of work it took to prepare, the artistry and in the special fellowship of friends it provided. That film is actually the first one Sheldon and I ever watched together. I even think it was before we were officially dating. 

Babette, AKA Joanna

Arkansas Adventure Day Six Part II

Jo an I spent the day in Nature (Yes, with a capital "N", because it was extra buggy). 

I made some illustrations to accompany it. 

Arkansas Adventure Day Six Part I

This is an illustration I made this morning of my time with Joanna yesterday by the pond. We took a long ramble around their property and she let me sit by the pond and sketch for a long time. We chatted and she watched all the tiny living things move around. The funny thing is how when you sit still for a long time you begin to notice how much movement is happening. There are actually tons of tiny creatures moving in the water and by the bank. There are Spring Peepers, inchworms, water beetles, worms and dragon flies, not to mention ticks and tiny spiders crawling over your body. 

Latest Artwork

I finally got around to scanning my latest artwork. So now it is here for you all to see!

This is a picture of Venice, which I copied of a lovely photo Mrs. Patty took while there. I used a combination of watercolor and black marker.

I did this accroding to a book my dad had lying around. The book was filled with pictures of Toronto in the 80's so this is a cafe from then. It's also watercolor but with a fine tipped black pen. I'm afraid you'll have to look at it sideways, because my computer skills are extremely primitive and I couldn't figure out how to turn around! Whoops!

And this here is out of my own imagination. It's a fairy, I was in a fantstical creature mood. This is just watercolor I think, although I might have snuck some pen in there somewhere...

Well, that's all for now, thanks for reading!