sketching...

...flowers

on big pieces of parchment paper... with all different kinds of colored chalks... wouldn't that be the life? when i was younger, i often thought about sitting on a hillside - in grasses - viewing landscapes - having a sketchbook - drawing to my hearts content.  but alas - i have no skill in the arena of drawing... none, nada, nope... i wasn't even left at the end of the line to gather up a teeny-tiny bit of skill! my stick figures turn out crooked... circles are misshapen... relying on a ruler is totally useless since i can never quite get the ruler straight either! what's the point?  it's truly sad.  sigh... drawing is a gift i believe you're born with: you have it or you don't.  as much as i desire it, i don't have it - even though i'd love to just sit down and draw... yet, let's be honest here:  it's not going to happen for me...

which is why i've played with these images... some people may not agree with post processing - the idea of messing around with what comes out of the camera... at times, i will enhance my photos a bit - adding some light if necessary or cropping... i might sharpen an edge here or there, as well.  additionally, i enjoy seeing what others do with their shots.  creativity is important to me - in life - in art - in all aspects of what we're about... we're given a lot of tools in the photographic world that allow us to push the boundaries - to play outside the sandbox... i think that's okay. 
 
as i was editing my photos today, i clicked on a little box mentioning something about sketching - boo! well, how do you pass that up? after all my rambling up there - i ask you... what was i to do? i couldn't ignore it: the box, the click, the word - all beckoned to me... you know what happens when i'm beckoned... i respond - i play - this is what happened...
 
 

 
i sketched today!  okay... maybe it was fake - from a photo - post processing, mumbo jumbo... whatever!  but it felt good and... if i stretch it, i can almost say i had a piece of chalk in my hand with a sketch book in my lap...
 
happy day.....