The wet season has come! It’s a late wet season because it has come in August instead of July. We were thinking that other things were a month late this year…like the flood flies came late this year too. Anyway, we are stuck indoors. The heavy rains start early morning and by the the time we get up, there are puddles everywhere. During the day, it rains intermittently and it is grey and cloudy.

You definitely have to wear wellies in this weather:

We have both been drawing to while away the hours indoors. For the last two years (on and off), we have been copying and learning from a ‘pen and ink’ book to learn the technique. Now, we are starting to translate photographs into our own pictures. This is the creative part. I think that we both enjoy drawing and find it relaxing. We have never really drawn much since we studied sciences and all that stuff to become doctors.

Here is a picture of the rosewood stand on our farm. I have shown the photo too so that you can get an idea of what I was trying to translate into my picture.

This is Gnome’s picture. This is a close up of the giant bamboo on our farm:

Okay, it’s still raining as we speak! We are going to swap the photos over and I will try the bamboo picture and Gnome will draw the rosewood. I find it really amazing that despite learning from the same book, our styles are very different and are actually close representations of our personalities. Gnome is more precise and technical. I am a bit more fluid and organic. What do you think? 😉

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