Periwinkle Repurpose

A tiny sketchbook for a tiny shell.  When I traveled to Maine, I brought along only my little 6"x6" sketchpad.  It hasn't seemed to fit anything very well, but this tiny shell worked just fine!  As written on the page, this is an empty periwinkle shell with something new living in it -- either an anemone or a tiny urchin, I suppose.  It was very cool.  I've been trying to work on getting even continuous tone with graphite, but I always get impatient at some point and you can see the scratches.  I must practice patience....

I don't have a scanner, so I tried taking a photo and uploading that, but it's pretty fuzzy.  Perhaps a photo taken in daylight.

Maltese Millennium Falcon

Another thing I'd like to start trying more of is Urban Sketching.  I imagine it's usually difficult to use the computer and graphics tablet to do plein air painting, but when you're on vacation and your living room looks out on the ocean, it's not such a hardship!  This "SuperYacht", the Zefira, came into the harbor today and dwarfed everything else around it.  I looked it up and found that it's 163 feet long, and I don't even know how high that mast is--this drawing doesn't quite capture that scale.  The yacht is big and gray and from Malta, and if I were in charge, I would have called it the Maltese Millennium Falcon...but I'm not in charge.