I pushed the pause button on a commission I’m working on because I felt the need to work on this.. I was inspired by the book I’m currently reading – Black Elk Speaks. The Lakota have their own names for the months based on the moon, such as Moon of the Popping Trees for December because of the sound the trees make when they’re frozen.
Wishing I had a compass to make the concentric circles (which I usually draw by hand after tracing the first circle from my lamp base…), I used doubled up dental floss and devised my own compass by tying knots where I wanted the circles to be and tacking it in the middle of the paper to hold it in place. By putting the pencil in each loop created by the knots and drawing as I pulled it away from the tack, I got perfect circles.