When is a hippo not a hippo...

When it's a rhino!

I've been calling this drawing exercise a hippo all week!  No idea why I suspect menopause brain  Maybe I should start calling hippos and rhinos Rhippos, that way I'd be half right all the time :-)))

Charcoal is such a messy medium but good fun.  I enjoyed this exercise but I am looking forward to playing with charcoal under my own steam.  Following the exercises takes such concentration and there's always an undercurrent of fear of getting it wrong.  When I choose my own subject to draw in the challenge week (next week) I am hoping that fear will be gone or much reduced.

Photos of the process in extras.

I started a practice painting of tulips today after spending a pleasant half hour choosing the colours and the paints.  Went with my Japanese watercolours.  I had planned to carry on and start the main painting but the studio needed a massive tidy up and I wanted to rearrange lots of things so had lunch then D and I blitzed the place.  It's taken months for me to get everything exactly where I want it.  I've moved things around loads of times thinking this is it, all I need is to hand, only to find it's not.  This time I think it is. Remind me of that when I am rearranging everything in a couple of months time :-))

We had the option of socialising this weekend but decided to have a weekend off (well D is playing golf on Sunday but that doesn't involve me so that's fine :-))  I am looking forward to not setting the alarm and having a leisurely start to Saturday.

Have a great weekend peeps :-))