Take Last Week's Post and Repeat

 Sometime I may be able to do something different than draw stuff, walk the dogs, and decorate my home, but last week was not that week.

No, I did the same thing as the week before, right down to replacing light switch plate covers.

Here is the boring, ordinary style of plate cover in the main bathroom:

And here is the charming and colorful style of plate cover now in place:

Sadly, most of the switches in the house are of the "rocker" type, which take up too much of the cover's decorative space, such as this one in the library:

It is most vexing!  However, I did manage to find a cover that worked for this room, which is decorated with a lot of beach-themed stuff (including lighthouses):

So that was fun.

Speaking of lighthouses, one of our Zoom sketch practice drawings was of a lighthouse!  It was not an ideal picture to draw from, as the lighthouse was small, and there were far too many complex rocks, but I did my best (using ink and watercolor):

We have been taking more time with our Zoom meetings lately -- they used to be one hour, but now we tend to go for 90 minutes, which is good, because we've often chosen complex reference photos lately.

This is the other drawing we did -- I definitely needed the entire hour and a half to render this street scene (using ink and colored pencils):

And here it is after adding the colored pencil:

And finally, no week would be complete without a cute dachshund pic.  This is Truman and Pippin lounging on the chaise in the library:

This is our favorite spot in the afternoons, when I like to get a bit of reading in.  I'm determined to improve my book reading this year, having read only a pathetic 46 books last year (about half of a typical year's total).  So far, so good--I've read seven books this year. 

I like to have one work of fiction and one of nonfiction (often two) going at the same time.  I like to read nonfiction during the day and fiction in the evening.  My current books are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (I've been rereading the whole Holmes canon), and Leonardo da Vinci, a recent (2017) biography by Walter Isaacson which is excellent.

That's all for now -- have a lovely week!