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4/29/2020

This was a fixed in time project for one special summer of travel, but I had such fun doing it that I decided to put it back up for anyone who'd like to browse. Since it's in blog form, though, it begins at the earliest post. You can go month by month in the Archive column at the right and follow Mr. Darcy's big trip across the country starting in April of 2017.

Working from the Sketches

8/2/2017

I got home from our trip with a ton of small Mr. Darcy watercolors, and I've been beginning to think more seriously about a book. I'm laying out some bigger pages using my sketchbook for the landscapes plus the original Mr. Darcy drawings posted here, along with some photos I took out there for reference. It's always the most fun to paint from a sketch you did on site and remember what it felt like to be sitting right there.

There are all kinds of things I should be doing this week, but this project is what I keep waking up thinking about, so it's what's on my work table at the moment.

Refrigerator

7/29/2017

I got buried under the end of my illustration project and then had to get all the way home with Mr. Darcy, so I've been absent here. I'm catching up now, still drawing scenes from our trip. It's good to be back to this project.

Sunshine

7/5/2017

New Bed, happy ending

6/26/2017

These sketches of Mr. Darcy are usually done from photos I take, since we're out, and he's moving around. But this was the scene one day as I glanced down from my work table, so I grabbed my watercolors and sketched it right then. The stuffed octopus was a present from good friends, and it came across the country with us.

New Bed, part 3

6/23/2017

New bed, part 2

6/20/2017

Mr. Darcy does not adapt well to change.

New Bed

6/19/2017

We're here for several months away from the sofa where Mr. Darcy usually sleeps, so I decided to order him a new bed when we got here.

Fathers' Day Edition

6/18/2017

I'm back from my week with the sisters in time for Fathers' Day. Dad found me my first, beloved dog, was there when I adopted Mr. Darcy, and takes all my dogs (three over the years) out to the country for their very best days. My dogs and I have both been lucky to be loved and supported by him.

Brief Vacation

6/11/2017

This blog is taking a brief vacation while I go visit my sisters for a few days. But I have photographic evidence that Mr. Darcy is happily consoling himself in my absence with a steak bone from our kind next door neighbor.