The reason we can "camp" in January and still be reasonably comfortable doing it is this cute little gal... "Ivy" the "Autostove" (although I can't find a thing automatic about her; you have to load her with wood, constantly adjust her, remove her ash and so on). I adore her - she's so cute! She also puts out some Major heat, so I could only work on this sketch for a few minutes at a time before having to dash outside to wander about and cool off in the January mountain air. Unfortunately, after fighting with the sketch ("hmmm... something wrong here") I discovered the folding chair I was using was being moved a bit this way and that in between sittings, so there were subtle differences in my view which lent distortion to the sketch. Ivy and her pet dragon-steamer are cute enough that I'll probably end up using her as a subject again before this year is out...
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