Posted in Drawing, Other artists, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on October 31, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Ink in Moleskine (click image, select All Sizes to enlarge)
He was sitting two seats up from me this morning and his profile was irresistible. He was a perfect model for the whole 13 minute ride. When I got off he gave me a knowing look. He couldn’t see me drawing him (the seat between us [...]
Posted in Animals, Every Day Matters, Watercolor on October 30, 2006 | 21 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches watercolor paper, 7.5 x 11 inches
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This seagull sat on the post by the boat while we dined on Saturday evening. I thought it was curious that this guy would just sit there, only a few feet away, watching us. Then someone threw a bean from [...]
Posted in Drawing, Ink, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on October 29, 2006 | 13 Comments »
Ink in HandBook Co. square sketchbook
Drawn laying down, looking out the window since that was all I had energy for today.
Usually this “fall-back day” is my favorite day of the year because we get an extra hour. I like to wait until an hour in the day that I’m enjoying and want another of and [...]
Posted in Other artists, Watercolor on October 27, 2006 | 26 Comments »
Watercolor on 7×11″ Arches paper
In did this in preparation for a painting demonstration in my watercolor class tomorrow. Even though it’s not finished, I thought it was pretty just as is and decided to post it.
Thoughts and questions about art kept me awake all night last night after yesterday’s evening trip to the California Watercolor [...]
Posted in Ink, Outdoors/Landscape, Plein Air, Watercolor on October 26, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Watercolor and Ink on 9×12 Arches watercolor paper
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” I did this plein air painting on Monday afternoon at Blake Gardens. I got there 90 minutes before closing with a plan to paint the redwoods and creek area (just behind this little pagoda fountain). Unfortunately, landscape architecture students from U.C. Berkeley [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on October 25, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Micron Pigma Ink in small Moleskine sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” Some people on BART today and yesterday. I felt pretty cheeky drawing the guy at the top left of the first picture. He was standing right over me, holding on to the seat in front of me reading. He got off at [...]
Posted in Flower art, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 24, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Watercolor in Moleskine 5×8″ watercolor notebook
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A package was waiting for me when I came home from work tonight. It was this little bottle that I’d loaned to a watercolor student months ago. She started painting it in class and wanted to finish at home so I sent the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 23, 2006 | 19 Comments »
Watercolor & Noodlers Ink in Moleskine 5×8″ watercolor notebook
(click image to enlarge, select “All Sizes” I love doing dishes. When I saw these, all nice and clean and lined up on my sink I had to capture them in my sketchbook.
I like waking up on mornings when there’s dishes to wash from the night before. It’s [...]
Posted in Flower art, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 21, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Watercolor on 7 x11″ Arches paper. Click image to enlarge, select “All Sizes”
I’ve been oddly out of synch all day today, not having energy or focus, which was frustrating. I was about to go to bed, tired and grumpy, having painted the rose below which is overworked and not what I wanted. Then I [...]
Posted in Drawing, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art on October 21, 2006 | 18 Comments »
Drawn and painted digitally in Painter. To enlarge, click on image and open “Ghost (Large version)” on Flickr.
When I was a kid my mom made a ghost costume for me out of an old sheet, cutting holes for eyes and arms. Unfortunately it kept slipping around and I couldn’t see where I was going. [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Life in general, Painter Digital Art, Pencil drawing, People, Sketchbook Pages on October 20, 2006 | 16 Comments »
Drawn in sketchbook with pencil, scanned into Painter, and digitally inked and painted.
I was very close to my grandmother and was born on her 50th birthday. She was very short and round and so soft…her skin was like velvet…well, very wrinkled velvet, and she always smelled like the sweet dusting powder she used. She had [...]
Posted in Cats, Flower art, Ink, Life in general, Watercolor on October 18, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Watercolor and FW acrylic ink in 9×12 in. Aquabee sketchbook.
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes.” QUESTIONS:
1. Are the images on my site taking too long too load? I’ve been saving larger sizes to Flickr and putting their medium size here but they are nearly 200K. I used to keep images to around 60K.
2. Do you [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on October 17, 2006 | 14 Comments »
Micron Pigma Ink in small Moleskine sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” This morning on BART I saw this lovely man as soon as I got on and purposely picked a seat one row past him. I was lucky that nobody sat between us until halfway through the ride. My ride to work is only [...]
Posted in Flower art, Ink, Life in general, Plants, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 16, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Loosely painted without drawing first using Kremer Pigments watercolors; then FW Acrylic Ink applied with Sumi brush. In 9×12 Aquabee sketchbook. (To enlarge, click image and select “All Sizes” At last, a day without a headache! Every time the weather changes I get migraney. It’s really frustrating here in the S.F. Bay Area because we sometimes [...]
Posted in Outdoors/Landscape, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 15, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Pencil and Kremer Pigments watercolor in 9×12 Aquabee sketchbook
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Why am I painting in a sketchbook instead of on watercolor paper? I asked myself this a hundred times while I was painting this afternoon (well maybe 20 times). In my watercolor class Saturday I emphasized the importance of using good [...]
Posted in Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on October 14, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Lamy Safari pen with Noodlers Ink wash in square HandBook Co. Journal
I know this isn’t a great drawing, but I’m soooooo tired so it’s good enough.
Tonight I watched the documentary Paper Clips. It’s about a middle school in a small rural town in Tennessee whose students were learning about the Holocaust. When one girl said [...]
Posted in Animals, Drawing, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 13, 2006 | 20 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in Raffine sketchbook
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This week’s Illustration Friday word is “Smitten.” My original idea was to draw my Los Angeles sister’s rescued dove and parakeet that have formed a loving pair and live in a big cage in her little living room. I was going to ask her [...]
Posted in Flower art, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 12, 2006 | 17 Comments »
Watercolor in Moleskine large watercolor notebook.
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When I woke up this morning I opened the living room blinds and saw the sun glowing on my white roses. I knew I’d have to hurry to get a picture before the light changed so I grabbed my camera and ran outside in [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages on October 11, 2006 | 10 Comments »
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” Today was mandatory Sexual Harassment Training for supervisors, presented by an attorney who looked a lot like Billy Bob Thornton. It was pretty stressful since I had a ton of deadline projects today.
At first I was anxious, worried about the work waiting for me in my office, knowing the [...]
Posted in Drawing, Flower art, Gardening, Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 9, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Micron pigma ink pen, watercolor in Moleskine large watercolor notebook
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(This was Monday’s post–I thought I’d clicked “Publish” but when there were no comments on it at all, I checked and discovered I had never actually put it on line….oops).
After working this morning I rode my bike into Berkeley this [...]
Posted in Drawing, Flower art, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 8, 2006 | 27 Comments »
This was the last of the four little paintings I did tonight.
Kremer Pigments watercolors painted loosely, without drawing; then Pentel Brushpen with black ink loosely drawn over the dry paint. In Handbook Journal Co. square 5.5 x 5.5 sketchbook (purchased from Wet Paint in Minnesota) .
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Today was a [...]
Posted in Animals, Cats, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art, Sketchbook Pages on October 7, 2006 | 21 Comments »
Digital art done in Painter
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I immediately thought of my cat Fiona when I saw this week’s Illustration Friday cue: “Trouble.” She’s always getting into trouble: chewing on electric cords, wrestling with my socks until they’re in shreds, jumping on my head when I’m sleeping in the middle of [...]
Posted in Animals, Blind Contour, Cats, Drawing, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 6, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Blind Contour Friday has issued the cue for October: “Spooky.” I thought my spooky cats would be suitable subjects, though they barely sat still long enough to draw them. In case you think I’ve forgotten how to draw, a “Blind Contour Drawing” means that you draw without looking at your paper and you do not [...]
Posted in Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on October 5, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Watercolor in Raffine sketchbook
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It rained last night and this morning for the first time since winter. Our staff meeting ended at 4:00 and I was back to my neighborhood by 5:00 which was a treat, since I usually don’t get home from work until 7:00 and it’s almost dark [...]
Posted in Drawing, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on October 4, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Watercolor in Raffine sketchbook (to enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” I hadn’t planned to paint this evening, being tired and over-stimulated from day one of our two day annual staff meeting/retreat combined with a little too much urban grit. But I realized that painting was exactly what I needed to calm and center myself.
We used [...]
A peek inside the sketchbook, studio, and world of San Francisco Bay Area artist and watercolor teacher Jana Bouc.
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