A day in the country--Paula in VA

Our sketching group visited a member's farm on Saturday. It is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and was lovely. We shared sketches/tools/ideas inside for a while (the Ball jar was sitting on the table so I sketched it while we talked), then went outside to sketch.

Some of the inhabitants of the farm.

They raise miniature donkeys at the farm and they were so cute! 

These sketches are in a handmade journal and it's falling apart. I guess it wasn't made to take the abuse my sketchbooks get. The paper is lovely to paint on but it bleeds through to the next page so I've decided to paint on every other spread and when I'm done, glue the blank pages together. That way I not only get rid of the bleed-through problem, but also finish the book faster so I can move on to a better one. I'm going back to the tried and true Moleskines.