Old Typewriters, Radios and Toads

Good monday morning, everyone! I can't believe it's been almost a week since I last blogged. A week filled with drawing, reading, spending time with Daniel, going to the movies, the theater, dinner with friends and much more!

Now, Daniel's summer break is over and he's teaching again. And I am on to my next drawing project - a very detailed graphite drawing. At first I thought I wanted to draw parts of that great old typewriter in the picture above, but somehow the typewriter and I never really clicked...

So, when my professor brought this old vacuum tube radio, I knew that this was the still life for me!

I've already worked on this drawing for quite a few hours and there's so much more to do! Just look at all that detail and texture. This morning I'm going to spend some time sketching out the power chord with those four twisting wires. I have a feeling they might give me some trouble...

In other news, we've had some regular visitors in our yard.

Two toads who haven't taken up residence in the toad houses Daniel put in our backyard,

but in the flower pots we have next to our porch.

The little one hasn't been back in a few days (we figure he was a male that moved on), but the big toad in the schefflera plant seems to have made that her semi-permanent home. For some reason that makes us both quite happy...

I hope you are all doing well and I hope to visit your blogs again soon... Until then I wish you a wonderful week!!