Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art on September 30, 2006 | 22 Comments »
Drawn and painted using Painter & Wacom tablet (click image and select “all sizes” to enlarge)
I had a few ideas for this week’s Illustration Friday challenge and this one seemed the more upbeat–the other two involved coffins and dead people (they are very quiet, though maybe not too attractive).
I love libraries and anything having [...]
Posted in Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 29, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Wash pencil, ink, watercolor in Aquabee 9×12 sketchbook (Click images to enlarge, select “all sizes” 
After a break of over 20 years, I returned to the figure drawing group that has been going on for much, much longer than that at U. C. Berkeley. The group is still open to the public, there [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on September 28, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Pen & Ink in small Moleskine notebook (click image & select “All Sizes” to enlarge)
Here’s a little collection of fellow riders on our subway known as BART this week. The bicyclist with his clip-on rearview mirror (bottom right) was sitting just a few feet from me and never noticed me drawing him. Ditto with [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 27, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
I knew what I wanted to do with this, but I was too tired to make it happen. Maybe I just should have just skipped painting tonight, and gone to bed early since last night I just couldn’t sleep–for absolutely no reason.
It was the plate that gave me the all [...]
Posted in Drawing, Pencil drawing, People, Sketchbook Pages on September 26, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Graphite (6B) in Aquabee 9×12 Sketchbook
Tonight was painting group and we couldn’t decide whether to pose for each other or just work on individual projects. I was tired and felt like sitting in one spot so I decided to try using a soft pencil and just draw myself. Like most self-portraits I’ve drawn, it’s [...]
Posted in Drawing, Painter Digital Art, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 25, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Sketched with Wacom table in Painter (digitally)
Tonight I practiced digitally sketching using Painter. I was so tired this afternoon, I didn’t think I’d be able to muster up anything to post, but my little Buddha statue inspired me. Before dinner I tried experimenting with my new Kremer Pigments watercolor set, but after not enough sleep [...]
Posted in Flower art, Pen and Ink, Watercolor on September 24, 2006 | 13 Comments »
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Ink & Kremer Pigments Watercolor on 1/4 sheet Arches 140 lb cold press (didn’t quite fit in scanner so a bit of top and bottom got cut off).
This morning I met my friend Barbara for a wonderful walk from her house near Berkeley’s Live [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 23, 2006 | 18 Comments »
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Micron Pigma ink and watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
Today was the 11th International Sketchcrawl and I’d planned to attend. But this morning I decided I really wanted to take a bike ride instead. I believe there are no shoulds when it comes to my [...]
Posted in Animals, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art on September 22, 2006 | 24 Comments »
This week’s prompt for Illustration Friday is the word “Phobia.” I have a pretty bad fear of heights, though I wouldn’t call it a phobia since it doesn’t prevent me from being in high places. It just makes me feel a little sick. Standing on the edge of cliffs always makes me feel like there [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Moleskine, Pencil drawing, People, Sketchbook Pages on September 20, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Ink in Moleskine
I spent the entire work day in a meeting today that was all about numbers, numbers and more numbers. I filled a dozen pages in my little Moleskine sketchbook with drawings of people looking bored. They fed us a nice lunch and it was good to meet some of my work colleagues [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Painter Digital Art on September 19, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Last week’s challenge for the Everyday Matters group was “Draw bread.” This delicious sourdough loaf (a specialty of the San Francisco Bay Area) was sketched from life using Painter’s digital pencil and paint tools.
My cats were very confused finding bread on my drawing table and my little calico, Fiona, tried to snatch a slice and [...]
Posted in Outdoors/Landscape, Plein Air, Watercolor on September 18, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Watercolor painted en plein air at Blake Gardens on Arches 9×12 watercolor block
This afternoon the weather was gorgeous and knowing that plein air painting time will soon be over (at least for wimps like me who hate being cold) I grabbed the opportunity to go paint at Blake Gardens. I love this area of the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 17, 2006 | 15 Comments »
“Old Teeth” (study for a large painting I’m going to make, drawn today from a combination of photos I took on Broadway in Oakland). Ink, watercolor in Moleskine large watercolor notebook. If you wonder why those hip-hop people want to have gold teeth, you might also enjoy a previous post here about a new invention [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 16, 2006 | 13 Comments »
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I packed my little painting kit in my backpack and walked the mile up to El Cerrito Plaza after lunch to sketch at the Saturday farmers market. It was a rare sunny, warm day in this usually foggy, windy neighborhood. Unfortunately when I arrived I learned they would be closing in [...]
Posted in Animals, Drawing, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art on September 16, 2006 | 20 Comments »
Here’s my second Illustration Friday idea for the topic Change. This was fun to draw in Painter but I used my laptop so I could sit at my drawing table instead of standing at my desktop computer. But the desktop monitor is callibrated and the color stays the same regardless of the viewing angle. Unfortunately [...]
Posted in Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art on September 15, 2006 | 11 Comments »
This is the first of a few ideas I want to play with for this week’s Illustration Friday topic: CHANGE. I’m trying to learn how to use Painter IX and each time I do I find another level I know nothing about. I’m starting to get some basic understanding but it’s really challenging. So here’s [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pencil drawing, Sketchbook Pages on September 14, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Sanford Draughting Pencil in Raffine 6×9 sketchbook
I finished watching the 1998 movie “Slam” tonight and I loved it! It’s about the redemptive power of art (poetry) in the life of a young African American man living in the Washington DC projects. When the movie ended I wanted more and decided to draw the lead actor. [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on September 13, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in 6×9 Raffine sketchbook
Searching my house for something to draw tonight I had to resort to looking in the fridge. Everything in my house just seemed so man-made and dry. I needed something alive and bright to give me enough energy to draw since I’m recovering from a funky migraine and [...]
Posted in Colored pencil art, Drawing, Other artists, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 12, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Judith by me, Ink and watercolor (Micron Pigma .0 in 9×12 Aquabee sketchbook.
Painting group tonight in my studio but only three of us could make it. Susie wanted to work on a still life so Judith and I decided to draw each other. We took turns posing for a 5 minute sketch (below) [...]
Posted in Drawing, Gardening, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 11, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Haiku for my little tomato plants
Poor green tomatoes
Planted too late to grow red
Reach for fading sun
I guess I planted them a little too late. Everybody else has harvested theirs and removed the plants from the garden. Mine are still striving to grow up and become nice big juicy red tomatoes but summer is over. Unless [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Outdoors/Landscape, Watercolor on September 10, 2006 | 12 Comments »
When I was driving home from San Anselmo (Marin County) Friday I pulled into the entrance to San Quentin Prison to watch the sunset on the San Francisco Bay. I took some photos to use for this week’s Everyday Matter’s Challenge: draw a body of water.
This afternoon it was really nice to get back to [...]
Posted in Animals, Illustration Friday, Life in general, Painter Digital Art, Sketchbook Pages on September 9, 2006 | 18 Comments »
Before this week’s theme (Farm) was posted Friday morning, I was trying to take close up photos of some ants that were carrying around a chunk of kitty kibble on the bathroom sink. I don’t think they carried it there–maybe the cats dropped it? So when I saw that the topic of the week was [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 8, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Today was a much better day. I visited a friend in San Anselmo (Marin County) and have always been intrigued by seeing the top of this castle-like building peeking out over the trees in her neighborhood. So today on the way to my next stop (the gym) I parked at the bottom of the dirt [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink on September 7, 2006 | 12 Comments »
I started feeling really blue this afternoon and was telling Michael I felt like I had nothing to say, no talent, no skill, nothing to offer, why bother, etc. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me since this morning I’d been in a great mood and looking forward to my weekend which starts [...]
Posted in Other artists, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on September 6, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Susie by me (no risk of anyone recognizing her from this picture!)
(ink & watercolor in 9×12 Aquabee sketchbook)
Tonight my painting group had planned to take turns posing for each other for a life drawing session. Then life intervened and only Susie was able to come. We were both so tired we decided to just [...]
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