Posted in Life in general, Watercolor on January 29, 2007 | 17 Comments »
I’m getting ready for my painting trip to Mexico with lists of things to take care of before I leave on Saturday morning. I’m trying something new–starting to relax a little before vacation instead of pushing up until the last minute, which has always meant starting a holiday with a migraine.
Tonight my painting time is [...]
Posted in Flower art, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on January 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Drawn in ink and watercolor from “live specimen” (picked from my tree)
Solanum wendlandii AKA Potato vine or Divorce Vine
I LOVE THIS QUOTE: “Hers was a life of friendship by correspondence.” (Said about botanical artist and author, Anne Ophilia Todd Dowden, who died recently at 99. “She never worked from photos, only live specimens. When [...]
Posted in Ink, Pencil drawing, People, Sketchbook Pages on January 26, 2007 | 17 Comments »
Pentel Brush Pen and water in 6×8″ sketchbook - 20 minute pose
As you can see we had quite a large model tonight. She was excellent at posing but when you faced her back it was like drawing a landscape with a big mountain in the middle. So I grabbed a small notebook that I [...]
Posted in Drawing, Pen and Ink, Still Life on January 25, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Uniball Signo white gel pen on black Canford Card paper
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This is a pack of Glide dental floss. It’s part of a series I’m drawing of things that support my life — items I could live without but would rather not have to. I’ve been considering items I own, [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on January 23, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Ink & watercolor in Aquabee 6×9 Sketchbook
This week’s Everyday Matters challenge is to draw your exercise equipment so yesterday and today that’s what I’ve done. I drew it directly with a pen which is why it’s not proportioned properly but I told myself to just be playful and draw for fun which I did.
This is [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on January 22, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Lamy Safari pen and ink with crayon in Aquabee sketchbook
This week’s EDM challenge is to draw your exercise equipment so here’s my LeMond RevMaster spinning bike which I like very much. I probably would have been better off riding it than drawing it tonight…or just going to bed. I started the drawing four times, but [...]
Posted in Acrylic, Flower art, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life on January 21, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Acrylic on mat board, 7 x 12″
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Graphite in Aquabee sketchbook, 6×9″
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I had a hard time getting started in the studio today. I’ve been studying and reading many books on technique: oil, acrylic, monoprint, drawing…and I’m at the point of too much information and [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on January 20, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
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Well, I don’t know what could be more ordinary and every day than an undergarment or more odd than publishing my underwear on the internet… but I was so tired today after a really busy day yesterday that I couldn’t muster the energy [...]
Posted in Life in general, Other artists, Photos on January 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In trying to catch up with email and blog visiting, I discovered Suresh Gundappa’s site with some of the most amazing photos I’ve seen, especially the one linked here that so brilliantly illustrates his powerful essay on how Westerners are so busy and in a hurry all the time that they are “driving themselves mad [...]
Posted in Moleskine, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on January 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Two craggy old guys sitting in front of me at the California Watercolor Association meeting tonight. The guy didn’t really have writing on his neck but it was a good spot to take down notes on upcoming watercolor shows to enter. It was an interesting meeting: Golden Acrylics had a representative demonstrating and teaching about [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on January 16, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Watercolor & Ink in Moleskine watercolor notebook 6×9″
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I keep my dish soap in this squirt bottle originally meant to mix and apply hair dye. The glass plate is on loan from my sister. When I saw it at her house I begged to borrow it to paint it. I [...]
Posted in Acrylic, Every Day Matters, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on January 15, 2007 | 20 Comments »
Acrylic in HandBook Journal 5.5 x 5.5″
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The week’s Everyday Matters challenge is to draw a bar of soap. My original idea was to line up all the different soaps in my house, from dish soap to laundry soap to bath soap and make a grid and paint them all. [...]
Posted in Life in general, Outdoors/Landscape, People, Watercolor on January 14, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold-pressed watercolor paper, 18×14″
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This shop near my office in downtown Oakland makes sets of snap-on gold teeth (also known as “grills” 
for people who like the idea of walking around with their teeth covered with jewelry. I loved the juxtaposition of the old guy [...]
Posted in Oil Painting, Still Life on January 13, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Oil on canvas board, 16×12″
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I’ve been working on these two oil paintings for way too long and I officially call them done. Now it’s time to move on. I learned a lot, including that it’s really hard to photograph them, especially at night. The one above is based on [...]
Posted in Flower art, Monoprint on January 11, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Monoprint; Gamblin oil-based etching ink on Arches 88 paper, 6×8″
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I made two different monoprints of this image, applying ink to the glass plate and then wiping it away and drawing in it to make the design, working from the same drawing for each. I’m just posting one for now [...]
Posted in Drawing, Other artists, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on January 9, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Ink in small Moleskine
This morning I got on BART and spotted the guy on the left at the end of the car in his knitted Cat-in-the-Hat hat, except that he looked more like Mr. Natural from R. Crumb Comics than the Cat. I only had a couple minutes to draw him and then a bunch [...]
Posted in Flower art, Still Life, Watercolor on January 8, 2007 | 54 Comments »
I need to design a postcard announcement for the show I’ll be having the month of March in the newly rennovated Art Deco Cerrito Theatre’s cafe called the It Club and their meeting room on the other side of the lobby. I couldn’t decide which of these images to put on the postcard and decided [...]
Posted in Animals, Cats, Drawing, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on January 7, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Ink & watercolor in Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook
This is Busby’s favorite perch. He sits on top of the stereo speakers that are on top of the fridge, somehow flying up there via a leap onto the counter, then the microwave then the fridge, then the speakers. The speakers are separated so some of his belly is [...]
Posted in Color studies, Drawing, Flower art, Pencil drawing, Photos, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life on January 7, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Graphite in 6×9 Aquabee sketchbook
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I’ve been struggling with an oil painting of this image …
and finally realized that it wasn’t working because I hadn’t first done a value study and compositional sketches. So tonight I set aside the painting and started over with this sketch to simplify the [...]
Posted in Animals, Cats, Drawing, Illustration Friday, Pencil drawing, Sketchbook Pages on January 5, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Pencil sketch/study for monotype. Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook.
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I’d been planning to work on sketching my cat Busby, also known as Buzz, to prepare for doing a monoprint of him today so it was convenient that today’s Illustration Friday cue is “Buzz.” Here he is! My next step is to do [...]
Posted in Animals, Cats, Photos on January 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I set aside tonight to try to catch up on visiting blogs, responding to email and reading this week’s Everyday Matters posts. While I was visiting Andrea and Andrea’s blogs I noticed through the slightly open door to the bathroom that Fiona (my calico cat) was playing in the bathroom sink. I didn’t think that [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on January 3, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Today was back to work and back on BART. These folks (above) were my entertainment on my morning ride. These sketches are all in my little Moleskine.
I sketched these people (above) at Saul’s Deli after dinner while waiting for Michael to return from the men’s room.
These folks were at Peets. I like walking up there [...]
Posted in Flower art, Still Life, Watercolor on January 2, 2007 | 25 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches paper, 8 x 10.5″
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Since I posted my 2006 art accomplishments I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my art plan for 2007. In December I decided my goal would be to have a one-woman show by the end of 2007. But within a couple weeks [...]
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