Posted in Life in general, People, Watercolor on December 31, 2006 | 31 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches paper, 11×8
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I like to spend New Years Eve quietly reflecting on the past year and the new one. This year Michael’s home sick and I’m spending the evening more quietly than usual, alone in the studio thinking about life and art. I decided to make a [...]
Posted in Cartoon art, Dreams, Life in general, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 29, 2006 | 18 Comments »
Ink & Watercolor in Aquabee 9×12 sketchbook
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I woke this morning at the apex of a terrible anxiety dream…but with a slightly different take than usual. First I should say that I have terrible stage fright and cannot sing to save my life. My family used to slam doors shut [...]
Posted in Other artists, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages on December 27, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Ink line and wash in Moleskine large watercolor notebook
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While I was out doing errands today I stopped at Silver Screen, my local video shop, and found this wonderful, new BBC mini-series, The Impressionists, about Monet (and Manet, Renoir, Degas, Bazille and others). The story ties right in to [...]
Posted in Monoprint, Watercolor on December 26, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Monotype 2: Swan. Ink & watercolor on Arches 88 printmaking paper
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Monotype 2: Sea Turtle, Ink on Arches 88
(Same monotype as above but in original orientation and scanned before painting)
Monotype 1 - Massage Dream. Ink & watercolor on Arches 88
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I was working without too much of a [...]
Posted in Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on December 25, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Watercolor in Moleskine watercolor notebook (plus a little salt)
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” For most people, today was all about celebrating Christmas. For me it was a luxuriously quiet and spacious day. I did this little painting of a glass dove candle holder that my mother gave me as a first year anniversary present [...]
Posted in Colored pencil art, Monoprint, Outdoors/Landscape, Sketchbook Pages on December 22, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Monotype and colored pencil on Arches 88 paper 6″x8″
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” This is the second monotype I made of this scene from this sketch. Monotypes are one of a kind, so if you goof it up, you start over from scratch. With this kind of “reductive” monotype, you spread the ink on [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on December 21, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I first sat behind her and was sure she was holding a can of Budweiser. It seemed so sad at 8:30 a.m. I couldn’t stop thinking about her sad life, dressed in business attire and having to drink a can of beer on her way to work so I moved to a seat to [...]
Posted in Dreams, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 20, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Ink & watercolor in HandBook Co square sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” For years I used to get up every morning and sketch my dreams before I did anything else. I have volumes of dream journals full of weird, amusing or x-rated drawings, depending on what the night had in store for me. I [...]
Posted in Life in general, Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 19, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Watercolor, then Micron Pigma Brush Pen in Moleskine large watercolor notebook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” I did this quick little painting this morning of the view out my living room window (more than slightly imaginated) (imaginate is my word for imagine and exaggerate). Even with the color in the sky, everything looked so cold, [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 18, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Micron Pigma ink & watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” After I saw Martha’s rendition of the Christmas lights on Berkeley’s 4th Street shopping area I decided to make my way there one evening to sketch. I hadn’t really planned on going there tonight though. I’d gone to the Blick [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 17, 2006 | 14 Comments »
Micron Pigma ink and watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” This week’s EDM Challenge is to draw and write about a gift we’ve received.
On the last day of a watercolor class I was teaching, Donna brought this cute little Santa as a gift for me (along with some yummy [...]
Posted in Cats, Life in general, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on December 16, 2006 | 26 Comments »
Watercolor in 5×5″ Hand Book Journal
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” I found this little glass at a thirft shop and really liked it. I’d been leaving it on the kitchen counter where it’s handy to grab for a quick glass of water. Yesterday when I came home from work I found it in the [...]
Posted in Sketchbook Pages on December 14, 2006 | 13 Comments »
All are Micron Pigma ink in small Moleskine sketchbook
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Here’s this week’s assortment of sketches in my always with me little Moleskine sketchbook. I’m experimenting with trying to capture more of the scene than just tiny pictures of peoples’ faces.
(Above) She played a game on her cell phone [...]
Posted in Cats, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 12, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Ink drawing with watercolor Raffine 6×9 sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” Tonight my painting group came by for our usual Tuesday (or sometimes Wednesday) painting session. Judith offered to pose for me while she was working on a painting and she was a perfect model. She actually was an artist’s model back in her [...]
Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 11, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Ink & watercolor in Raffine 6×9 sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “all sizes” My son Cody is an excellent car mechanic, specializing in customizing 60s and 70s muscle cars like his 1970 Firebird. He wanted to put a drawing of his car on his new business cards. I said I’d give it a try but somehow [...]
Posted in Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 10, 2006 | 13 Comments »
Pentel Brush pen and watercolor in 9×12 Aquabee sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” I took the photo this sketch is based on when I was driving home from a trip across the bay to Marin County. There are a couple of small parks along the water on Sir Francis Drake Blvd. One was [...]
Posted in Flower art, Gardening, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on December 9, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Watercolor then Pentel Brush pen in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” I spotted these roses in my garden this morning, still blooming, even with morning frost and rain. I’ve enjoyed having them in the house and tonight decided to make a quick painting of them for posting.
I’ve been sleepy and uninspired [...]
Posted in Drawing, Other artists, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages on December 8, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Pigma Brush Pen in 9×12 Aquabee Sketchbook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” Sorry for the slim pickins’ today. Yesterday evening I was starting to come down with a migraine which hit in full force early this morning, wiping out all chances of spending time in the studio today. I did this sketch of my next [...]
Posted in Animals, Dog, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 6, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Micron pigma ink, Kremer Pigments Watercolors in Raffine 6×9 sketchbook
(To enlarge click image, select “All Sizes” Barbara and I were taking a walk across the University of California’s Berkeley campus a couple of weeks ago in a drizzling rain. As we turned a corner we heard barking and then saw this little dog barking at a [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on December 5, 2006 | 21 Comments »
Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
(To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” This week’s Everyday Matters challenge is to paint something sweet. I’ve been trying to cut down on eating sweet things (to lose the few pounds I put on from spending lots of time at art and not enough at the gym). So…no candy, [...]
Posted in Oil Painting on December 5, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Oil painting in progress on 16×12″ board
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Previous first layer of same painting
I’ve been trying to figure out how to resolve this dilema: Since I started posting daily sketches and small paintings to my blog about 8 months ago I haven’t been working on any larger paintings, preferring the immediacy [...]
Posted in Block Printing, Every Day Matters, Watercolor on December 3, 2006 | 18 Comments »
Block print, printing ink & watercolor, 5×4″
(To enlarge click image, select “All Sizes” This week’s Everyday Matters challenge was to make a holiday card image. I thought a lantern glowing in the dark would be a good image for my cards this year. I’d carved and printed a linoleum block a few weeks ago and the [...]
Posted in Monoprint on December 2, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Akua Kolors on Arches 88 paper, 6×8″
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Monotypes are really interesting to make and really confusing. I’m just barely finding my way with the process. For one thing, in order to make the final print not be a mirror image of your original drawing or photo, you trace the original [...]
Posted in Pen and Ink, Pencil drawing, People, Sketchbook Pages on December 1, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Pencil in 14×17″ sketchbook
Sketched with watercolor then ink and watercolor washes added. In 9×12 Aquabee sketchbook
Ink (Pentel brush pen) with water added to make washes in 14×17″ sketchbook
Friday nights there’s a figure drawing group open to the public that meets on the U.C. Berkeley campus. It’s a great deal– $4.00 for 3 [...]
A peek inside the sketchbook, studio, and world of San Francisco Bay Area artist and watercolor teacher Jana Bouc.
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