Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I visited the Golden Gate Fields Racetrack again this morning. After freezing in the foggy wind for a couple of hours doing gesture sketches of quickly moving horses, sketching horses by peeking through a 1/4″ hole in the barn fence anda blah little painting of the bay (none worth posting), I warmed up in my [...]
Posted in Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 30, 2006 | 25 Comments »
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge is “Sticky” and I thought of lots of things less icky than this, but I couldn’t resist. Sorry. Ink and watercolor in sketchbook.
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 29, 2006 | 17 Comments »
Everyday Matters’ challenge for this week is to draw or paint your mailbox. Below is a sketch of my front porch and mailbox (though I think I temporarily forgot everything I knew about drawing when I made it), plus photos of my actual painted mailboxes and a story about mailboxes and Art as Revenge:
Below is [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 28, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Too bad about the little problem with gravity and the table but fortunately no coffee was spilled. (Might as well blame gravity instead of my drawing).
This morning I took my neglected car in for the “Wacky Wednesday” oil change and car wash special. Then I took a hike to breakfast through the industrial area where [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 27, 2006 | 5 Comments »
When I was leaving Blake Gardens yesterday I spotted this life-sized statue guarding a gated entry to an enormous but otherwise uninteresting home just past the Carmelite Monastery down the road from Blake Gardens. Today I went up there to draw him in my sketchbook. It was cold, foggy and windy so after about an [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 26, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches 9×12.
I returned to Blake Gardens today, much better equipped for painting outdoors and did this 2-hour sketch of the pond from a different angle. I brought my new lightweight Winsor Newton watercolor easel and put all of my supplies into my granny cart (one of those tall wheeled mesh carts that you [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
This morning Michael stopped by on his way to Trader Joes to drop off this pretty bouquet of flowers he'd given me last night and I'd forgotten to bring home. I was still in my new purple pajamas. He said I need a doorbell (I don't have one and I didn't hear him knocking) but [...]
Posted in Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, Wet Canvas WDE on June 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The photos for this week's Weekend Drawing Event on Wet Canvas were from Chicago. I did this drawing in my 6×9" sketchbook with ink and watercolor. I usually draw with ink first, but this time drew with pencil and then got most of the way through the painting before I realized I'd forgotten the ink [...]
Posted in Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 24, 2006 | 20 Comments »
Drawn in ink and painted in watercolor.
Drawn in ink; scanned/colored in Photoshop.
When I was in Hawaii (Kauai–the wettest place on earth) many years ago, it was raining tiny tree frogs as I walked under a tree. I thought RAIN was a strange topic for June until I remembered that even though it almost never rains [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Gardening, Life in general, Plein Air, Watercolor on June 22, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Plein air painting done at Blake Gardens, the 11 acre botanical gardens and University of California President’s Residence in Kensington, CA. (Open to the public weekdays.)
The Everyday Matters challenge for this week was to go someplace new and paint it. I’d never been to Blake Gardens before and I’d never done a complete watercolor plein [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Instead of my painting group meeting in my studio as usual tonight, we met at a little nearby beach on San Francisco Bay to paint until sunset. I did these quick watercolor sketches of the giant eucalyptus tree we sat under and the beach with San Francisco in the distance (it's further away than I [...]
Posted in Life in general, Links, Other artists on June 20, 2006 | No Comments »
I flew down to L.A. for the day to visit my 82 year old mom. This is one of my her paintings from the 50s. It's a picture of her Bubbie (grandmother) that we found in an old free-standing wooden closet in her garage.
That old wooden closet was from the funky old beach house one [...]
Posted in Gardening, Sketchbook Pages on June 19, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Well, the hydrangeas I drew and wrote about last week sadly didn’t survive being uprooted and stuck in the ground with maybe a wee bit too much fertilizer (Marsha read the instructions too quickly and poured in about 1 cup of fertilizer but what the box really said was 1 cup for an area 3 [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 18, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Michael made a delicious Father's Day brunch with the help of Nora, Kevin and Maeve. The orange scented pancakes and oatmeal/cherry scones with cherry jam were heavenly. What joy to sit around the table and learn from the wit and wisdom of his offspring, to talk about music and art and to see them blooming [...]
Posted in Watercolor, Wet Canvas WDE on June 17, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The photos for the Weekend Drawing Event on Wet Canvas this weekend came from a "smallholding" (a small farm) in Newfoundland, Canada. I've been doing a lot of loose and free sketching lately so it was fun to focus on the details of the crenulations around his bill. They call him B.D. for Big Duck [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Watercolor on June 16, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Polar Bears: Dancing on Thin Ice
Polar Bears are at risk of extinction due to global warming-related starvation (they can’t get to their food all spring and summer as the ice retreats). If the current rate of ice shrinkage and related weight loss continues, bears may become so thin by 2012 (SIX YEARS FROM NOW!) that [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 15, 2006 | No Comments »
Today was my last day of work until July 5! I'm really happy to have wonderful weather, good health again at last, and more than two weeks of time to just wallow in Jana's world, enjoying painting, relaxing and playing. After dinner I looked out my window saw that the sweet kids next door had [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 14, 2006 | No Comments »
I met my photographer friend Mike for lunch today and we took our cameras for a walk near Lake Merritt and Snow Park. He was teaching me how to take pictures without looking at the camera, just holding it at our waists and shooting, trying to get our subject in the lens–it's really hard to [...]
Posted in Drawing, Dreams, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 13, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I dreamt Jennifer Aniston was giving a party dressed in a life jacket and matching mini-skirt–another new fashion trend seen first in my dreams? First Bling Bling suspenders, now life-jacket party wear. Meanwhile, my blind neighbor sent her German Shepherd out for a chicken sandwich. (I don't have a blind neighbor.) Amazing what those guide [...]
Posted in Gardening, Sketchbook Pages on June 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Marsha was cleaning up her garden and had a couple hydrangeas she didn’t want anymore so she brought them over and we planted them in my barren side yard.
Once we got them planted I decided to sit and draw one even though it was very wilted and shaggy looking and the sun was setting.
Hopefully they’ll [...]
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 11, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Busby taking a Sunday afternoon nap on the studio window seat and giving off that addictive kitty-sleep aura that always makes me want to snuggle in and take a nap too. (Quick sketch–Ink & watercolor in Moleskine watercolor notebook).
Posted in Drawing, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, Wet Canvas WDE on June 10, 2006 | No Comments »
Here's this week's Wet Canvas Weekend Drawing Event post. The original photos available for painting this weekend all had that grey sky look that I'm so familiar with here in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's been winter again in my neighborhood for days–nothing but gray foggy skies and constant wind blowing in from the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Life in general, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on June 9, 2006 | 12 Comments »
When I was in the rainforest in Costa Rica several years ago I saw what looked like a long green ribbon trailing through the jungle. It turned out to be leaf cutter ants that chew off and carry pieces of leaf that weigh at least 20 times their own body weight–like a human carrying a [...]
Posted in Sketchbook Pages on June 8, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A week into my birthday month, at a time when I'm normally revelling in being a happy birthday brat, I'm still fighting a month-long evil cough and cold. Therefore, as Queen of the Month of June I hereby declare that being sick is entirely and completely unacceptable any longer and proclaim that upon awakening tomorrow, [...]
Posted in Sketchbook Pages on June 7, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I woke up looking forward to folding laundry this morning. I like waking up with a simple task to start the day…laundry, washing dishes, scooping the cat litter. It gives me a chance to enter the day slowly with purpose rather than jumping up and rushing around. I have this cool gadget (I love gadgets) [...]
A peek inside the sketchbook, studio, and world of San Francisco Bay Area artist and watercolor teacher Jana Bouc.
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