mucking about . . .

I am thoroughly enjoying the donkeys and goats here on the farm. Such delightful personalities! But all the feeding, watering and mucking out stalls is distracting me from sketching. At the end of the day, I’m more likely to grab a book to read than my sketchbook journal.

Today I thought I’d rectify that with a quick, messy drawing . . . of my “mucking about” boots! (Of course they are plaid. What else would they be?)

Trying to keep it “messy and loose”, I used a Pentel brush pen. This pen has been in my stash for years; I can’t recall the last time I actually used it. I think it is called a Pentel Aquash brush pen with soft black ink — the ink is more gray than black.

One other distraction of late: we are in the final week before closing on the sale of our log cabin —  moving the ”staging” furnishings and woodshop stuff, and then cleaning and mowing. Meanwhile, today our carpenter is busy moving an animal shelter from the south horse arena to the north pasture. We will need to move the livestock out of their temporary home in the barn to the north pasture before starting on the barn conversion. We adopted the rescue animals right after signing with a new realtor and we honestly didn’t expect the cabin to sell this fast. So we thought we’d have plenty of time before moving the beasties . . .