Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 31, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Ink & watercolor in 9×12 Aquabee Sketchbook (Lamy Safari pen, Noodlers Ink).
Last week’s Everyday Matters challenge was to draw streetlights. I took a quick photo of the one on the left as I was waiting for the light to change on Carlson by Nation’s Burgers in El Cerrito. I photographed the middle one while taking [...]
Posted in Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 30, 2006 | 8 Comments »
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I was driving down Moeser Lane on my way home from Blake Gardens and as usual was amazed by the view and had to pull over and paint it from the front seat of my car. Moeser Lane is a very steep street that heads straight uphill from my house (in [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 29, 2006 | 9 Comments »
I tried doing yesterday’s sketch again, this time starting first in pencil and then adding watercolor. It looks a lot more like her and this time our heads are the same size. Yesterdays drawing was the last page in my Aquabee sketchbook and today’s is the last page in my first Moleskine watercolor notebook.
Here’s the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 28, 2006 | 9 Comments »
(Geez this is a terrible drawing–it gets worse every time I see it.)
Since I was thinking about my mom a lot this week, I decided to draw her from a photo we took at the beach on my last visit. I drew directly in ink, and strangely, my mom came out much bigger than I. [...]
Posted in Drawing, Flower art, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 27, 2006 | 8 Comments »
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I don’t know what kind of tree these came from, do you? Actually I drew the parts of two identical trees that are next to each other in my neighborhood. The only difference is that one has impossibly pink flowers and the other has impossibly bright orange flowers. [...]
Posted in Animals, Illustration Friday, Pencil drawing, Sketchbook Pages on August 26, 2006 | 26 Comments »
I did this sketch from a photo I took at Golden Gate Fields in the very early morning when the jockeys are training new horses, running them around the track. I actually intended to do an ink drawing, but after a couple of unsuccessful but fun drawings with a Micron Pigma brush pen, I decided [...]
Posted in Plein Air, Watercolor on August 25, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Painted on site in watercolor on 9 x 12 Arches watercolor block.
I finally got back up to Blake Gardens today with two hours before closing. My plein air painting supplies live in an old lady shopping cart in my car. I dragged that thing all around the Blake Gardens estate looking for a spot to [...]
Posted in Drawing, Flower art, Other artists, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 24, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Non-artists, today’s post will probably be boring, sorry.
I’m reading two books about art right now, “The Unknown Matisse” (the first half of a 1,000 page biography) at the recommendation of Laura, and “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” by Scott McCloud at the recommendation of Nora, who’s studying to be a graphic designer.
I’ve been working on [...]
Posted in Drawing, Flower art, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 23, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Ah Sunflower
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on August 22, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Today’s morning and evening commuters sketched on BART. I’m starting to work on simplifying my lines, trying to identify the essence of the person or thing I’m drawing and exaggerating those characteristics a bit. I was able to do that on some of the people–especially the two standing at top right.
During my lunch break today [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 21, 2006 | 9 Comments »
This very old gun shop is located about a mile from my house, next door to the new Peet’s Coffee. I’m sure that the only reason it continues to exist is that it’s always been here. It would never be allowed to open on the edge of a residential neighborhood in this liberal community now.
I [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 20, 2006 | 22 Comments »
The Everyday Matters challenge this week was to draw something that makes you happy and write about it.
I love my studio and I love spending time in it. All I have to do to get happy is sit at my drawing table–the one in the far left corner–and start drawing. When I’m drawing or painting [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday on August 18, 2006 | 22 Comments »
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Get it? Match, Match-o, Macho man? Oh well.
It’s better than my first idea, which was a cartoon of what used to happen, back in my smoking days in college, when I’d screw up this corny old joke. Someone would ask, “Gotta match?” and I’d try to be funny and would mean [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on August 17, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Some sketches in ink drawn on BART during my morning commute. Above: This morning’s commuters seemed to all be wearing hats. The woman in the middle’s cap was pink and her head of white hair was shaved almost completely. Below: Random people from yesterday and today.
I’m a words and pictures sort of person and today [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 16, 2006 | 7 Comments »
The organization I work for held a 3-day institute for 150 teachers at Oakland’s Preservation Park this week. This fountain is in the center of the square block collection of restored victorian homes that are now used for meeting space and offices. It’s a lovely setting and the weather was perfect for lunches outdoors in [...]
Posted in Cats, Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on August 15, 2006 | 9 Comments »
I finally caught up on my sleep last night. I’d had a couple weeks of only getting 5 to 6 hours and then horrible nightmares on Monday night. I was too tired last night to do anything–drawing was as impossible as running a marathon. I got into bed at 8:00 right after dinner.
So I did [...]
Posted in Drawing, Gardening, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 14, 2006 | 9 Comments »
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I picked these for my Saturday morning watercolor class. Nobody wanted to paint them but me so I’m glad they lasted until today. I did the drawing in ink this afternoon and wish I’d paid attention to my niece’s suggestion to leave some of it unpainted as the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 13, 2006 | 19 Comments »
At the Oakland Zoo this summer, the Meercats played continuously while we watched, chasing each other, pouncing, play-fighting, and kicking up dust. Meercats are actually from the mongoose family, not cats, but they play just like kittens.
When I saw that the word for Illustration Friday this week was “Play” I wasn’t sure if I wanted [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on August 12, 2006 | 10 Comments »
This week’s Every Day Matters challenge is “Draw an Ear.” I tried drawing my own, but as it turns out, my ears can’t be seen by my eyes so I had to wait for innocent victims to venture into my web. Today was the day. First Cody came over to pick up laundry he’d left [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 11, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I’d about given up doing any drawing today. I was tired from an intense week, felt a migraine lurking, had no creative energy and spent the day puttering, sighing, resting, and doing some filing of papers and sorting of photos on my computer. I was about to head to bed when I saw this rose [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on August 10, 2006 | 6 Comments »
This was sketched from a sunny bench in the little park just outside the Federal Building in Oakland. That tall thing in the foreground is a stone statue etched with a bit of a face, some lillies, and some extra eyes.
I’d gone to the Federal Building to cash a check at the credit union on [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Other artists, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 9, 2006 | 7 Comments »
The light oval thing isn’t a flying saucer or the moon. It’s a domed skylight on the roof of a nearby building. I started drawing with ink but realized there wasn’t time–the light was going fast so I went directly to watercolors and painted as quickly as I could, in a small watercolor Moleskine notebook, [...]
Posted in Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 8, 2006 | 14 Comments »
I was really tired tonight and didn’t think I had the energy to do a drawing but decided to go in the studio for one hour and just see what happened. I’d taken a photo of this magnolia on a walk in my neighborhood last weekend and sat down to draw it in ink in [...]
Posted in Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 7, 2006 | 15 Comments »
This is Spanish lavender from my backyard in a little lavender hand-blown glass vase (the vase is actually shaped like this–for once it’s not my drawing). I used my magnifying lamp to see the details and discovered teeny purple flowers with yellow centers on the bud-shaped thingee that the lavender petals come out of and [...]
Posted in Drawing, Gardening, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on August 6, 2006 | 12 Comments »
On-site sketch in 3.5 x 5.5″ watercolor Moleskine
Studio sketch from photo in Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook
It was a sunny day in the 70s today and the outdoors was calling. Instead of spending the day in the studio as planned, I took my sketchbook and little paintbox for a walk around the neighborhood, looking for something [...]
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