Artwork: Zebra pen ClickArt markers in a Hahnemühle beige-toned watercolor sketchbook.
Did you know it’s believed the household sweeper is called a broom because originally it was made from one of several species of broom plant (scot’s broom, common broom, french broom, etc.).
Three Doodlewash prompts in one drawing with a poem to go along, of course.
History of the Broom
Back in history
we zoom, and find the broomstick
was the common broom
Flower and green leaves
tied together stick to stalk,
made a broom to sweep the walk
Windy days and Autumn
leaf did blow; broom was planted
for broomsticks to grow
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Life Imitates Doodles 
I like the poem 🙂 beautiful fall depiction in your art
Thank you, Alice!
In my life time I have seen many uses for the broom; sweep leaves, chase mice, scare the cat, run the children out of the garden but most of all sweep away your worries. Mother would always sweep the house days before father would return, worried that she had not kept the house to his likings. Father never looked at the floors when mother was in the room, and the broom never left the corner.
Sounds like wonderful memories!
I love everything about this painting! That broom especially! It is so wonderfully animated and organic. One thing I loved best about traveling in parts of Europe was waking early and watching the vendors and street sweepers with their brooms made of local sticks, weeds branches and straw, tightly wrapped together. You brought that memory back to me. Wonderful bold colors and design!
Thank you, Judy! I have similar memories of Ecuador. I remember once when I was there in Cotacachi, there was a huge street festival, parades, confetti, food vendors and a huge crowd. Yet when I got up at 06:00 the next morning, those streets were sparkling clean. Not one sign of what happened the night before. I wish we were that clean in our country!