The Year Of Drawing Adventurously – Week 8: Your Name

Following the chart to 52 weeks of drawings this year.

My first thought was to do a piece of graffiti art for this week’s prompt, drawing Meg in big, blocked letters and adding some embellishments to it. But then I had another idea: to draw the subject of the meaning of my name. Meg is short for Margaret, which is derived from the Greek Margarites, which is from the noun margaron which means ‘pearl‘. And so I give you a pearl, still in its shell:

The Year Of Drawing Adventurously – Week 7: Love

Following the chart to 52 drawings this year. I took a different spin on ‘love’ for this drawing. No kisses, hearts or hand holding. I wanted to give a shout out to my city, where the football team just won their first ever Super Bowl (EAGLES!!!) And where the third largest art museum in the world resides. That’s right: behind The Louvre in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, The Philadelphia Museum of Art ranks next. You all know Philly for cheese steaks and its tough sports fans but the arts are alive in Philadelphia! This is Love Park in the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection.