Subway Drawings (BART)

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 [...]

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Seagull (Everyday Matters #90 – Things with wings)

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 [...]

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Tired View

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 [...]

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Glow (in progress) and Art Thoughts

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 [...]

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Blake Garden Pagoda & Art Show

Watercolor and Ink on 9×12 Arches watercolor paper
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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 [...]

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Subway Drawings (Noses on BART)

Micron Pigma Ink in small Moleskine sketchbook
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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 [...]

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My bottle is back!

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 [...]

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Dishes done (EDM #64)

Watercolor & Noodlers Ink in Moleskine 5×8″ watercolor notebook
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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 [...]

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Rose twice

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 [...]

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Illustration Friday: GHOST (True story)

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. [...]

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Bubbie Hanging Laundry (EDM #88: Breezy)

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 [...]

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Bouquet Play

Watercolor and FW acrylic ink in 9×12 in. Aquabee sketchbook.
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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 [...]

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Sleeping Subway Cyclist

Micron Pigma Ink in small Moleskine sketchbook
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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 [...]

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Zebra Plant

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 [...]

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Cactus on Carlson

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 [...]

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