'Tis Fall

It's fall already. In a few minutes it will be winter (at least in my neck of the woods).

I didn't mean for this little bird to look melancholy. 

And I didn't mean to feel that way myself. 

I suppose more drawing will fix my mood...

Wheeeee! That's better.

-- Ruth McNally Barshaw

Worldwide Day of Play -- Week!

It's a special week here at Sketchables: Worldwide Day of Play is Sept 20. Get outside and play!
Here are some tips for sketching in nature, if you take your sketchbook outside with you:

For quiet play, here's a How To Draw A Tiger bookmark.

Personally, I am a games person (just like Ellie McDoodle). Here are some bookmarks that fold into triangle-shaped paper footballs, to play finger football with your friends:

Have fun out there! Play is serious business!

-- Ruth McNally Barshaw

Welcome, Autumn!

It finally feels like Fall in Texas, and in celebration I give you this excerpt from How the Leaves Came Down by Susan Coolidge: 

"So, for just one more merry day

To the great tree the leaflets clung,

Frolicked and danced, and had their way,

Upon the autumn breezes swung,

Whispering all their sports among,"

I hope to do much more with this poem, as I have all kinds of imagery floating around whenever I read it. ;)