This week’s Journal52 theme was “Above My Head” so I drew the contents of one of the “plant shelves” in my house – little nooks near the ceiling in all the upstairs rooms. This one is in my study. I removed the captions from the scan, but the objects are, in order:
- A lantern my husband got from his sister
- A stein I bought my husband when I was in Belgium. I didn’t draw it here, but the top of the lever to open it is shaped in the form of Manneken Pis.
- A glass mug belonging to my husband. The silver emblem has his initials engraved on it, but I don’t know where it came from.
- A vase I procured in Muncie, Indiana, during college. I couldn’t quite capture the pearlescence in marker but it is beautiful.
- A mule deer skull found in Flagstaff, Arizona.
My walls aren’t actually that purple – they’re a far more muted purply-gray – but I love that marker color so much that it ran out of ink. Alas.
Materials: Staedtler triplus fineliner, Prismacolor markers.
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