[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-getting-acquainted-with-the-apple-tree":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"We have this lovely apple tree growing just outside the wall around our studio building. So this morning I sat on the outside staircase and drew it. I think I'll try to draw this tree often; it feels healthy, like a  really Zen/Franciscan contemplative thingymabob to do. I started out with an Arthur Rackham book sitting next to me, and I was being very precious with drawing the leaves. But then I got a big ink splodge in the middle of the drawing and stopped trying so hard and did some mucking about, and I think it turned out much better than it would've otherwise. I got ink all up my arms and it felt more like painting than drawing.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/appletree1-7a90e4d25f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI had to take a picture of it because it's still wet, and now it's taped up on the studio wall. I was kind of embarrassed because I was getting texts from Gary and Viv who were running around doing Useful Things for the studio, and I was just sitting there drawing a tree, but ah, well.\\r\n\\r\nIt's handy having apples just outside, we've been eating a lot of them. Although we do get the occasional worm, here is Mercer the Maggot. He was very energetic and clambered around for a good while before we chucked him back outside. A little boy on his tricycle rode up to me and solemnly informed me that they were 'boisonous'. 'Poisonous?' I asked. 'No, boisonous'. So we have been well boisoned.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/appletree1b-bded78af14.jpg\">","2009-08-06T09:51:00.000Z","getting-acquainted-with-the-apple-tree",[],"getting acquainted with the apple tree",1776628733072]