GIANT GUINEA PIGS

"Today was Capybara Day? I wish I'd have known earlier; I would have gotten started sooner and would have gotten my capybara pic finished on time!" I muttered quietly while adding the last touches to my pencil drawing.

"What're you talking about?" the bird in the sketch seemed to quip; "you're just learning to draw animals, aren't you? You didn't know two days ago how to draw a capybara!"

True. I'd practiced drawing birds in the online Drawing Lessons, but that didn't show me how to draw capybaras. Then, in Lesson 2, I'd had to draw quite a few horses and human figures...but again, no capybaras.

But an empty spot of 14 mins.' Timed Drawings had been made up by sketching guinea pigs. Today, I saw a video explaining how the capybara was a relative of the guinea pig. (If you think about it, the capybara is a giant guinea pig!) Doesn't that mean even while I was doing the timed sketches, and completely unaware of what I was going to be doing today, God was preparing me for it by having me draw guinea pigs?

"before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." (Isa.65:24)

STILL BLACK & WHITE, BUT...

I tried it again. This time, I didn't finish something I already started but just looked at it and did something completely different. I didn't like the first composition anyway. It seemed if the bird was going to be the focal point of the picture, it made more sense to have him at the foreground, on the bottom of the picture. I remember there was so little time when we were at the Siscos' to think about all of this, Stop June; haven't you forgotten to explain something?

Oh--right. On my Aug. 2 post "Tears", I mentioned Joyce and my stay with the Ron Siscos. They showed us the above fully preserved bird they found during a visit to their missionary children in Africa. For today's picture, I looked at several photos of the Siscos' faces, but for the first sketch only guessed, back in the room, what they looked like. I hope today's picture is slightly better!