#SBSColoredPencil #DrawWithMe #Cute

Thursdays at noon is #DrawWithMe with Danny Gregory on YouTube. This week's theme was "Cute". While in California, Danny drew his grand-dog, Penny, on his iPad. I chose to follow along but drew with Prismacolor Premier colored pencils in a Crescent Rendr marker sketchbook. I blended the pencil marks with an alcohol marker blender.

Enrolled in Sketchbook Skool's Colored Pencils: Sharpen your Skills Kourse.

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #48 What was that?

Walking through the woods, movement underfoot! What's that? I think it was a garter snake!

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day # 47 Turtle in the Road!

Found a 2 inch hatchling Painted Turtle, in the road by the mailbox. I picked it up and set it down in the woods facing the pond. 

Chrysemys picta, a pond turtle, is the most widespread turtle in North America. Fossil records indicate that the Painted Turtle has been around for 15 million years!

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #46 "KERPLOP!"

A heavy piece of machinery drove through part of the woods leaving two wide sunken tracks that have filled with water because the drainage is very poor. While walking by I heard a "Kerplop!". Definitely a frog, didn't see enough to identify the species. Perhaps a wood frog?

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #45 A Flutter of White Wings...

Today it's about the little white butterflies flying up the left side of the page so stop looking at the cute little Painted Turtle hatchling!

Didn't know that Pieris rapae was an accidentally introduced to North America from Europe or Asia species. It can be quite pesky in some agricultural areas. 

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #44 Leaves of 3...

Leaves of 3, let it be! Unless, of course, it's these 3 leaves then be happy for the Jack-in-the-Pulpit! 

A member of the Arum family, Arisaema triphyllum, loves to grow in moist or seasonally wet shady places. 

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #43 A Painted Lady visits...

A visit from a Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui.

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #42 Meadow Shrub...

During the winter I was curious about the persistent seed capsules on this meadow shrub. Now that the leaves are coming out, I can take a guess as to what it is. 

It may be a Summersweet (also called Sweet Pepperbush), a Clethra spp. If it is, it will bloom with white spike-like upright clusters of flowers in July and August and attract many species of butterflies and birds. Yay! 

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #41 Eat it while it's young!

I found this when it was just a prickly twig and now that it's getting leafed out I can confirm my guess as to it's identity - a greenbriar (or greenbrier), Smilax spp. perhaps rotundifolia. 

Research says it's good to eat but you must harvest the young soft parts before the sharp spines harden. I think I'll pass for now, thank you.

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #40 An evergreen wintergreen?

There are plants that obtain (Steal!) a portion of their food through mycorrhizal fungi attached to other green plants, but can meet some of their own nutritional needs with their leaves. Some members of the Pyrola or the wintergreen family are an examples of this. I found what may be wintergreens also called Shinleaf in the woods. They are definitely evergreen and soon they will bloom. 

Is this a Shinleaf?

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.