I got totally behind here doing my first in person fair in 2 1/2 years not long ago. It was the 50th anniversary of the Pink Palace Crafts Fair. I got to sit out in person, see friends, talk art, and see people interact with my book P is for Possum. It's been out in public for almost two years now, but except for a couple of times in the museum store down at WAMA, I haven't see folks looking at it or enjoying it. I loved getting to tell the story of making it (hiding in the forest for the early pandemic with bright colors and a big fat marker and coming out with enough sketches for a book). And I loved watching kids looking at it.

BUT I'm running off this week to a small in-person pop up in St. Louis this Sunday evening, so I'm not going to dig out photos from PP right now. Instead, here are sketches from Urban Earth this past Saturday with the Memphis Urban Sketchers. We had a ball, and it's a visually neat place to roam around. It was also the first day of Inktober, so after my first watercolor sketch, I did a couple of quick ink ones to get the month started off right. I'm sketching almost daily, so at some point I'll scan more in to show here. But I have a house guest for the month and am also taking some vacation time, so this month especially I'm going to give myself some grace.