Sketching

Since just after Christmas, I have been trying to sketch every day.  Some days I have painted as well. I am not good but I do believe that you can't get better without practice.  I have two sketchbooks and I think all of these are from the large book.

In the drawing above, I stamped the image in my book so I would have something to work off of when I drew at work.

I have a whole children's book in my mind after this image.  Perhaps someday, I will really write it. 

Anne was brave and smart.

And Anne had wild red hair. 

Mom tried to tame it but the hair always won. It was wild and red.

Sometimes kids at school teased her for her wild red hair.

Anne wished her hair was different.

She climbed up a tree and thought.  (Green tree hair)

She laid on a big rock and thought (castle hair)

She sat in the garden and thought. (Flower hair)

She put her head in a water and thought. (Ocean hair in bathtub)

She sat and thought some more. (Sitting/ rainbow hair)

Then she laid in her own bed with her wild red hair swooshed around her head.

Who would want boring tame hair? 

She decided her hair was just right the way it was!