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Archive for May, 2006

Just as I was falling asleep last night my sleepy brain came up with a great invention. I was so excited I turned the light back on and made this note in my bedside notebook: "Hip-Hop Suspenders Made of Bling!" I'm so tired of seeing  guys walking around holding up their giant pants (or letting [...]

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I was surprised to wake up at 6:00 a.m. to a sunny day today since my neighborhood near the San Francisco Bay is foggy most of the time. When I looked out the window, this grand old tree was brilliantly glowing. I ran outside in my pajamas and took a few photos and then painted [...]

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In 1987, at the ancient age of 39, when I was still married and had two little kids, I thought, as I shopped for a new bike, that I was buying my last one because certainly I would be too old to ride anymore by the time I was, say 50. It was one of [...]

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For this week's Wet Canvas 2-hour drawing or painting challenge they posted photos from the Virgin Islands. I picked this photo of a guy named Jupiter. It was a challenge to paint it in the assigned two hours since I would normally work much more slowly. It took 2 hours to paint and then [...]

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Here's this weeks IF illustration, done in my sketchbook with ink and watercolor and then scanned in. When I think of cake I think of cinamon crumb cake donuts, and all of my other favorite donuts. I love donuts. They are my medicine and my poison. I've also painted my favorite donut shop which can [...]

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I did this little sketch for Illustration Friday's topic of the week: SORRY. I've been sick in bed for days and the sorriest thing I could think of was the sight of me still in bed.

I'm hoping that the antibiotics will finally kick in and I'll quit coughing and having headaches and will again have [...]

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To amuse myself while I've been sick I took my laptop to bed with me and looked at other people's art for inspiration. I found a Weekend Drawing Event on Wet Canvas where a moderator posts a dozen pictures–this weekend of her trip to the zoo in the Netherlands–and members spend 2 hours on a [...]

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While I've been sick in bed I've been amusing myself by looking at other people's sketchbook blogs and wishing I had the energy to write and draw too.Other sketchbook artists whose work I enjoyed visiting were Karen Winters and Russel Stulter.

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