Sunday's daily sketch inpsired by my day in the garden and my Singularity obsession of course

The black and white sketch before playing with colour.

If her eye's look a little wonky it's because inspired by my last Singularity painting I shared which had the happy accident of two eyes looking different directions, I tried it intentionally in the sketch. Now, in the painting, the result was the accident of filling in the robot eye on the left with too much colour, therefore covering the white of the eye, giving her the look of staring at you whilst her other eye watched the butterfly. That turned out great and I went with it.

In this sketch I did it intentionally, the robot eye looking more outward, whilst her 'human' eye down at the flower. I'm not sure it's working. It might just be that idea of contrivance and when some things are too planned they seem, well, too staged. But, that is why I make sketches and studies because I like to try things out.

Here it is flashing in a gif betwixt and between monocrhome and colour, just for fun:

Now, yesterday was a rather busy Sunday for me, thus that is why my #sublimesunday post is happening on Monday. I had to make a trip to change over my cottages but also wanted time in the garden and I always make art time everyday. Thus, by the end of the day, photos taken and idea for post ready, I just hadn't it in me to post. But, I don't feel I need to post every single day and Summer is always a busy time for everyone. But, I digress, off to the garden...

I decided to make a small container pond in the beds by my new porch and terrace.

This spot was getting very dry and Puss decided she wanted it for her 'litterbox'. As it sets right up against the house and next to a place I like to sit on my new porch, it needed a makeover.

When I had a friend over the other day we were watching the birds play and eat in the new borders and trees when she mentioned I should have some water out here for them; which is true. I always like to include water in my gardens, but as this garden faces the sea, I didn't think about it. I mean the Atlantic is the water, but then I realized: of course all the song birds that visit our garden do need a drink. Thus, this idea mixed with this odd dead spot gave me the idea.

I had this old galvanized tub sitting about anyway and figured it'd be a perfect birdpath/fish pond.

So, I set about putting it together. Here in this shot you can see 1) the empty space 2) with the tub in place (I had to take out one dhalia that was struggling anyway and moved it to the front of this bed) 3)some iris and watermint I stole from my little pond in another garden here. I always save my pots my plants come in, as they come in handy for potting up, starting seeds, and in this case to hold the plants to sink in the 'tub pond'. 4)It set up with plant pots hidden by stones and my little fountain propped up.

The fountain I took the other day, when I decided on this project, from my cottage I rent out in the summer. It was in the garden there, but it sat over an old pond that I turned into a garden bed, as it was too much work to keep a pond going for weekly summer guests. So, she came with me and the galvanized tub back to Toad Hall to take up residence here.

She has seen better days, but I love how she is falling to bits. It gives that 'weather lived in' look I do love in gardens.

She is not yet hooked up, as I need to find a small pump. The old pump was for a large pond and if I used that it'd not only take up most of the tub but would probably shoot water 10 feet in the air! For now she looks nice simply watching over the new fish.

And as I have other galvanized things about here, like watering cans and planters, it looks lovely.

Here are the orange of the fish with the bright pinks of my dianthus.

As this pond is small, come Winter these fish will either move to the house aquarium or go in the larger pond with the other fish.

This makes a nice spot now to view the sea, my garden and my new fish! Puss and I love to have a break here now.

Well, I think I have rambled on long enough. I hope all of you had a lovely #sublimesunday in our #steemitvillage and hope you Monday is looking up as well.

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