I didn't manage a sketch every day, with the Crafts Fair, a month long visitor, and a show to hang, but I did seriously enjoy Inktober, where artists draw and post ink sketches all month. I have a tendency, even in my sketchbook, to go full on, full page watercolor on every page. It's hard for me to be restrained sometimes. Inktober, even though I used watercolor in a good number of the sketches, was a good reminder to get back to my pens and highlight the ink as well as the paint. I'm trying to practice that as I move into November as well. And it's fun to have more sketch and also more narrative in my work, like yesterday morning's finishing-my-tea sketch.

I've also been thinking about leaving more to the imagination because of Danny Gregory's book Everyday Matters, a memoir in graphic/sketching form. I treated myself to two books at the end of "Hang Day," when I got my Eclectic Eye show up on the walls, and this was one of them. The other was Stephen King's On Writing. I'm thinking a lot about book publishing and the process that goes into

A couple with Mr. Darcy, of course, including one in the style of his summer adventures, for anyone missing those.