Posted in Cartoon art, Digital art, Dreams, Life in general, Painter Digital Art, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages on May 30, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Dreamt I was at the movies with my blind husband (don’t have one) and another blind man and they were showing off by walking from side to side on the stage being tricky and funny.
Dreamt I created a company called “Subsidiary” that makes devices to make shoulders more comfortable while sleeping.
Dreamt Cody was a kid [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Other artists, Outdoors/Landscape, Painting, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on May 28, 2007 | 13 Comments »
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All images ink and watercolor in Moleskine Watercolor Notebook
I got inspired to get back to sketchbooking after looking at Pete Scully’s watercolor sketches (scroll down on his site to see entries from May 9-13) from his recent trip to Santa Monica, where I was born. They reminded me how sketches of [...]
Posted in Acrylic Painting, Flower art, Painting on May 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 16″
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On Mothers Day Robin brought me a lovely bouquet which I started painting that afternoon. The picture below is as far as I got that day. I was liking how loose, free and sketchy it started out:
Then it was back to the office for the week. By the [...]
Posted in Cartoon art, Drawing, Dreams, Painter Digital Art, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on May 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Dreamt I started a Japanese all-girl band as a way to promote a baseball team.
Dreamt I invented a combination yoga mat/lawn chair. In the same dream something was tickling me and it was big banner that said “Big Banner” tucked behind my pillow.
Dreamt there was an old lady who kept coming to my door every [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on May 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ink in Moleskine sketchbook
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Just a few people on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) – our version of the subway — on the way to the Sketchcrawl Saturday. This is being another killer week at work, leaving little energy for much else. I’m determined to get in some drawing tonight [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Other artists, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on May 21, 2007 | 24 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in small Moleskine watercolor notebook
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Saturday was the 14th Worldwide Sketchcrawl and I attended the one in San Francisco. We met at the Ferry Building around elevenish (people straggled in for about an hour and then we finally left to walk up the Filbert [...]
Posted in Cartoon art, Digital art, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art, Sketchbook Pages on May 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Drawn on paper and digitally colored in Corel Painter
I planned to try to finish two acrylic paintings this weekend but yesterday I spent the day at the San Francisco Sketchcrawl (I’ll post that story and those pics tomorrow) and today I got distracted by this week’s Illustration Friday challenge and this image that word [...]
Posted in Drawing, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on May 18, 2007 | 27 Comments »
Watercolor in Aquabee Sketchbook 6×9
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Today is the last day of my first year of blogging. I’d hoped to finish the year off with a bang but a combination of day-job overload, exhaustion and aches and pains prevented me from posting the past few days.
I’m hoping that tomorrow (Saturday) I’ll [...]
Posted in Acrylic Painting, Photos, Studio, Watercolor on May 14, 2007 | 17 Comments »
A watercolor in progress (about 1/3 done) on my watercolor table with my helpers standing by, waiting to help (or get in the way). This is a commissioned portrait of a house with the family’s 3 cats in the window.
An acrylic painting in progress on my easel in the opposite corner of the room.
If you [...]
Posted in Cartoon art, Drawing, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages on May 12, 2007 | 17 Comments »
Ink in sketchbook then digitally painted in Painter
My Illustration Friday post yesterday was lame. I didn’t have a single interesting idea of what to do with citrus other than a literal drawing of a lemon. But today I had another idea and quickly sketched it and then spent an hour or so coloring it in [...]
Posted in Illustration Friday, Painting, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on May 11, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches paper, 10×8″. To enlarge, click image, select All Sizes
I hadn’t planned on doing Illustration Friday today but when I saw that the topic was Citrus I remembered the giant old lemon from a co-worker’s tree that’s been in my fridge for a week. I’ve been squeezing it on veges and into salad [...]
Posted in Drawing, Dreams, Pen and Ink, People, Photoshop painting, Sketchbook Pages on May 10, 2007 | 11 Comments »
…it’s just that it’s been an exhausting few weeks at work and I haven’t had the energy or brain power to do much more with art at night than color in dream drawings (and sleep). Here’s a few more from the past week or two that I colored with Photoshop (though I prefer Painter for [...]
Posted in Dreams, Painting, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on May 8, 2007 | 11 Comments »
(above) I dreamt that Shirley (from Everyday Matters) was a graphic designer who had done the covers for some Curious George books that were being published by the organization I work for. I thought of her in the dream as Shirley hemend (the last name is actually part of her email address and it was [...]
Posted in Drawing, Every Day Matters, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages on May 7, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Lamy Safari pen, Noodlers Ink, Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook
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(EDM = Everyday Matters art group)
We’re having a record breaking heat wave this week. My neighborhood used to be foggy and cool 90% of the time, being directly in line with the Golden Gate Bridge and a few blocks from the [...]
Posted in Cartoon art, Life in general, Painter Digital Art, Pen and Ink, People, Photoshop painting, Sketchbook Pages on May 6, 2007 | 8 Comments »
These are all sketched in ink in my morning dream journal in ink and then colored in Photoshop. They can be seen larger by clicking image and selecting “All Sizes.”
Dreamt I was hanging out with Michael and a lovey-dovey hippie woman who was handing out crocheted flowers and I realized I was wearing ugly sweats.
Dreamt [...]
Posted in Cats, Every Day Matters, Painting, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on May 4, 2007 | 20 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold press paper 8×10″
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I was determined to try again with the marbles. I just wasn’t happy with the previous version that I painted when I was way too tired. I’m not satisfied with this one either, and will try again for the fresh transparency [...]
Posted in Every Day Matters, Glass, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on May 2, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Watercolor in Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook
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All day at work (which has been insanely busy lately) I was thinking about coming home and painting some marbles for this week’s Everyday Matters challenge - Draw Something Round. But I worked until 7:30 pm and then by the time I’d cooked dinner and [...]
A peek inside the sketchbook, studio, and world of San Francisco Bay Area artist and watercolor teacher Jana Bouc.
To see available watercolor paintings, click the image below to visit Jana's painting website:
Please let me know that you stopped by and tell me what you think: Click on "Comments" under any post's title to leave a comment, or send an email to janabouc@gmail.com
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