Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on July 31, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Original pen and ink version below
When I finished telecommuting at about 8:00 tonight, I sat down to a microwaved Lean Cuisine and turned on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes which I’d TiVo’d. I watched for the few minutes it took to eat my yucky TV dinner and then decided to do my daily drawing from the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Gardening, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 30, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Barbara and I took a great hike in the North Berkeley hills this morning near her house, and looked at people’s gardens and interesting (and bizarre) architecture. When we got back, her garden was so glorious in the noontime sun that I had to postpone lunch and sit down and draw.
It’s overflowing with beautiful flowers [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 29, 2006 | 9 Comments »
I picked up my new chartreuse glasses at the optician’s yesterday, but when I put them on I felt a bit off-balance. I have a difficult prescription with lots of astigmatism and even a tiny error in the lens can really affect my vision. I decided to go next door to Espresso Roma before leaving [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Watercolor on July 28, 2006 | 22 Comments »
This week’s Illustration Friday cue is CLEAN and the Every Day Matters’ challenge is COLD. I wanted to tie the two concepts together to make one picture. It worked (I think) when I remembered how cold and wet I used to get when cleaning my old dog with the hose after she’d rolled in something [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 27, 2006 | 10 Comments »
I did this spoon tonight in my WC Moleskine but I’m not crazy about it. I wanted to vege out and go to bed early, but convinced myself to just quickly paint one little serving spoon in order to have something to post today. But I was too tired and so is the picture I [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 26, 2006 | 6 Comments »
My good friends Judith and Richard have a wonderful parrot named Florio (formerly known as Flora until they discovered she was a he). Florio’s a great bird. When I visit and talk nicely to him he blinks his eyes and dilates his pupils, looking so pleased to be told he’s a good bird. If we [...]
Posted in Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on July 25, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I stayed up way too late last night working on yesterday’s pretty bowls of fruit so today all I could muster was a not-so-pretty drawing of my big feet. I was drawing laying down in my recliner with my feet up on a pillow on top of the foot rest using a Lamy Safari in [...]
Posted in Colored pencil art, Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 24, 2006 | 12 Comments »
One hour sketch of a little bowl of summer fruit in watercolor (above)
Same sketch in Inktense watercolor pencils (above)
I finally tried out the Inktense pencils I got last week. They remind me of the really special coloring books I treasured when I was a kid that look normal until you paint on them with water [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Gardening, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 23, 2006 | 15 Comments »
This week’s Every Day Matters challenge is to sketch fresh flowers. These hydrangeas are from my hairdresser’s shop, Circle Salon in Kensington, CA. The shop is always filled with multiple bouquets of her stunning home-grown flowers–all of them more interesting than anything you’d find at the florists. Julie’s an amazing gardner and a great hairstylist [...]
Posted in Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 22, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Today’s Robin’s 31st birthday. Lately his life’s been an uphill climb, working very long hours for a good cause. But as long as you’re still climbing, you’re not over the hill… so there’s still lots more to look forward to. I’m so proud of all he’s accomplished. He’s really quite amazing.
I can’t help thinking back [...]
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Watercolor on July 21, 2006 | 29 Comments »
This week’s Illustration Friday cue is “Opposites” so here are the opposite ends of Busby and Fiona. I was teasing them with a kitty treat to get them to pose for photos in the first picture, and they were standing up to look out an open window in the second. I wonder if I need [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on July 20, 2006 | 7 Comments »
These are some of the people riding BART with me this week. The guy above was great–he stayed in one position for several stops so I had the chance to draw more than just a face.
The sketches below from the previous day were a practice in drawing quickly. The flashing sign on the elevated, outdoor [...]
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 19, 2006 | 3 Comments »
My painting group came over tonight, as they do most Wednesday nights. We were all sitting around the living room while I finished my awful Healthy Choice TV dinner (I’d barely gotten home before they arrived). Everyone was tired from working all day, and we were trying to get motivated to move to the studio. [...]
Posted in Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, Wet Canvas WDE on July 18, 2006 | 5 Comments »
This was my contribution to the Wet Canvas Weekend Drawing Event this week. He was drawn in ink and then watercolored in my sketchbook. There’s always great photos to work from there, but I’ve gotten so interested in drawing from life that I hadn’t been doing the WDE lately. Couldn’t resist trying the peacock though.
I [...]
Posted in Drawing, Gardening, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 17, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I needed to slow down a bit today so after telecommuting this morning, I took a sandwich out to my backyard, read for a while and had a lovely half hour nap in the perfect high-70s breezy sunshine. In one corner of my yard I have a small patch of pretty wildflowers that my friend [...]
Posted in Colored pencil art, Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 16, 2006 | 11 Comments »
I took a Sunday afternoon bike ride to Berkeley’s 4th Street, an upscale little shopping street in a formerly industrial zone by the railroad tracks, about 4 miles from my house. People come there to do some recreational shopping and to dine, and many dress up in show-offy clothes. I felt a bit dorky arriving [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Watercolor on July 15, 2006 | 12 Comments »
This week’s Every Day Matters challenge was to write and illustrate a favorite recipe. I felt guilty that I haven’t been putting any effort into cooking in order to spend more time in the studio and couldn’t think of a favorite recipe it had been so long since I’d looked at one. Then Anita, an [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Watercolor on July 14, 2006 | 23 Comments »
Who understands sacrifice better than mothers? Or lambs?
But No, No, No, the mom is NOT about to sacrifice the baby for the stew pot! I hope nobody thinks I meant that. It’s supposed to be a scene of motherly love and sacrifice but I guess it could look like one of those Britney Spears or [...]
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 13, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Trader Joes ginger cat cookies and a glass of milk–a yummy little bedtime snack drawn quickly with ink and watercolor in my large watercolor Moleskine–now I get to eat them and go to bed!
When Cody was here the other day he saw the big round plastic bin of cookies on the kitchen counter so he [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on July 12, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Here’s the sketches I did on my 13 minute commute this morning and yesterday. I’m discovering that if I draw really slowly, even though the train car jiggles a lot, I’m able to do a better job of capturing a likeness.
Yesterday on the trip home, a young African-American man, slightly scented with marijuana, sat down [...]
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Life in general, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 11, 2006 | 12 Comments »
I walked into the studio to decide whether to draw something new tonight or just post the little sketches I did this morning on public transit. The kitties ran ahead, leapt onto my drawing table and chair, looked out the window and started making little chuffing noises at the birds in the tree outside my [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Sketchbook Pages on July 10, 2006 | 4 Comments »
My son was here doing his laundry so I got him to sit and watch a Dave Chappelle rerun while I drew him. It’s a typical portrait–a picture of someone where there’s something wrong with the mouth (and the nose, and the chin). It’s close, and I might have been able to get it closer [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 9, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I was entranced by the fact that someone decided to park his tractor (or whatever this thing is called) on TOP of this dirt pile instead of in the quarter acre of space around it. I could just see this guy at the end of a long workweek deciding to have some fun and see [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Other artists, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 8, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Today I rode my old bike (never did buy a new one) down to the Bay Trail and explored the Albany Bulb waterfront park where artists create sculptures from the driftwood and drift-trash that comes in from the Bay or was dumped there before it was a park. Oakland artist and author of a book [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 7, 2006 | 23 Comments »
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge is “Skyline.”
Did you get it? Is it too silly? In case it only makes sense to me, the idea is:
Corny pickup LINE…in the SKY…ergo, SKYLINE.
Ink and watercolor in my sketchbook.
A peek inside the sketchbook, studio, and world of San Francisco Bay Area artist and watercolor teacher Jana Bouc.
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