some things can’t be rushed

As I was recently reading all the Hercule Poirot mysteries, the following quote especially made me laugh:

“. . . there are three things that cannot be hurried — le bon Dieu, Nature, and old people.”  — Hercule Poirot, Mystery of the Blue Train

So after jotting it down in my journal, what better way to illustrate it than by sketching leaves from our last camping trip — over a year ago! Better late than never. I’m glad I remembered to take a picture of them

In this Drawn to High Places limited edition Pocket Palette, I keep a collection of granulating watercolors. Most are from Daniel Smith, but the “volcano” colors and the tundra blue are from Schminke. I used a Rosemary & Co. R10 travel brush.

The color swatch card is folded in half; on the inside and back pages, I made samples of color mixes attainable from these colors.