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I made my golden calf in the arbour because it was a pagan place and a circle is always a good setting for sculpture. It was very difficult to get the legs to stay upright but in the end they did and I nailed them to the socle just to make sure. Sometimes I stood still, listening for the first rumble of the wrath of God. But so far he had said nothing. His great eye just looked right down into the arbour through the hole between the tops of the spruce trees. At last I had got him to show some interest. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

Last spring we had nineteen canaries. I must tell you, once and for all, that canaries are very virulent birds. It starts with the mother bird and the father bird. They have babies. And before the babies get a single feather on their bodies they have to leave home and the father bird sings again and the mother bird lays new eggs. That's how things go with canaries. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

What a wonderful Kirkus review! (Paired here with my favorite improper contraction.) "A thoughtful look at life, in all its beauty and strangeness. ... This delightfully deadpan musing on life urges compassion for others. Howden’s straightforward text is on the philosophical side, though also rooted in the absurd. Hahn’s spare black graphite pencil watercolor, mostly set against a white background, are imbued with humor and empathy for the pickle, with the foodstuff’s expressive eyes conveying many emotions at once. " https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-howden/the-wise-pickle/ THE WISE PICKLE by Sarah Howden ; illustrated by Sabina Hahn RELEASE DATE: June 23, 2026

"A dark man went on shovelling outside the door and all of a sudden I started to cry and I screamed: I'll bite him! I'll go outside and bite him! I shouldn't do that, Mummy said. He wouldn't under-stand. She screwed the top on to the bottle of Indian ink and said: what about going home? Yes, I said. So we went home." - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

Then everything started shrinking. Every piece of furniture became elongated and narrow and disappeared towards the ceiling. There was something crawling under the rag rugs in the hall. It was also narrow and thin and wriggled in the middle, sometimes very quickly and sometimes very slowly. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

Can't sleep.

It's a sighing kind of day today. Not bad. Not good. Just... #dailydrawing #stork

In ANU museum in Tel Aviv. The Costume of the King ( I don't know which king, I couldn't read the plaque) by Leon Bakst was without a person inside. I made him up. So now it is a costume of a dancing King. https://www.instagram.com/p/CthTwxZJjVY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

26. Tiny, psychedelic slime. Prompts are from Janelle Shane generated using the OpenAI net GPT-3. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVgH7mVLwwj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"We had a new upstairs neighbor, and while I had yet to see him I knew he was there because each night he made a terrible racket. It was different each time. One night it sounded like he was blowing across the mouth of a jug for an hour straight without taking a breath." From "Tacky Goblin" by T. Sean Steele https://instagram.com/p/B17bwBohfVj/

We COULD stay here and vainly hope.

14. The ghost in the closet. Prompts from @janelle.shane generated using the OpenAI net GPT-3. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVLWL9sLmEc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"You have hair the colour of gold," said the fox, "the grain, which is also golden, will bring me back to the thought of you, and I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat. " - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. #thelittleprincebookchallenge #kidlitart #graphite

Beginning. Every morning Susan took her pet fish for a walk. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwCz58Bhc7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Beginning. Only one of them was playing hide and seek... https://www.instagram.com/p/CQymJK6BQSW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

BAM! Apple fell on Kismet's head. How unnecessary that was to prove gravity! Cats knew all about gravity a lot longer than people did. They test it once in a while to make sure it is working properly. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS9-uLPL3pa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

20. Ghost traitors. Prompts are from @JanelleCShane generated using the OpenAI net GPT-3. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVViLYFrwMw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cat liked to go fishing without lure. It made for sweetest dreams. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXMO5wDraWq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cat was good at being in two places at once. Making mischief in both. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXOmaDDJQ5U/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Or - do not make plans with Nac Mac Feegles

Some days you are the Rabbit, thought Cat, some days you are the Hat. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZhA4apLyXw/?utm_medium=copy_link #dailydrawing #cat #pencil #magic