Posted in Life in general, Painting, Plants, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on July 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Watercolor in Moleskine large watercolor notebook (Larger)
I picked up this feather and some sort of dingleberry/pod that fell from a tree on a walk by Lake Merritt (which has a bird sanctuary). I actually collected several feathers of different sizes, textures and colors that I wanted to draw. But trying to keep the cats [...]
Posted in Faces, Oil Painting, Other artists, Painting, People, Portrait on July 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Grisaille underpainting, oil on canvas, 9×12 (larger)
Francis is a little boy I photographed (with his mom’s permission) in the cafe at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Something about his red hair and sweet, wise nature made me want to paint him. This is a second attempt–the first got tossed. I’m trying a [...]
Posted in Glass, Moleskine, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on July 28, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor sketchbook
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These lovely items were my birthday gift from my office and I’ve been dying to paint them. I’m probably going to do it again as a “real” watercolor too, not just a sketch like this one. I might give it a shot in oil too.
The bubble [...]
Posted in Art theory, Life in general, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings on July 25, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Above, on the train to work in the morning, 5 minute drawing.
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All are ink in Moleskine sketchbook
Above, waiting for the train on the platform, 3 minute drawing
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Above, people on the train to work, probably 3 minutes each (my trip is only 13 minutes)
I’m sooooo tired tonight. [...]
Posted in Drawing, Ink, Life in general, Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink on July 22, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Ink in Moleskine sketchbook
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The short version:
It was very crowded on the sailboat and there were many interesting people to talk to, so I even though I brought art supplies, didn’t get to draw anything until we left. My sister parked at a nearby upscale grocery store to grab a cup [...]
Posted in Landscape, Life in general, Moleskine, Other artists, Outdoors/Landscape, Painting, Plein Air, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor sketchbook
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Thursday night was a 2-hour plein air paint-out on Alameda Island that was part of the Frank Bette Art Center’s annual invitational weeklong event that culminates in a show and a fund-raising auction in the park Saturday. Susie and I went there straight from [...]
Posted in Art theory, Landscape, Life in general, Moleskine, Other artists, Outdoors/Landscape, Sketchbook Pages on July 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Ink & colored pencil in small Moleskine notebook
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I drew this sitting on a wall in front of the building where I work, waiting for a ride after I witnessed something disturbing and weird this evening that changed my plans for the evening. I left work and headed to BART to [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor on July 16, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in small Moleskine notebook
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I supposedly work half a day from home on Mondays so that I can get out and paint in the afternoons. Unfortunately I often have trouble turning off the work email and end up working most of the day. Today I forced myself out the [...]
Posted in Art theory, Oil Painting, Painting, People, Photos, Portrait, Puerto Vallarta on July 15, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Oil painting IN PROGRESS - 22 x 28 inches
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I started this oil painting today from a photo I took in Puerto Vallarta a few months ago (see bottom of this post for the original photo). I thought I’d track my process and progress and post the results as I go.
(Clicking on [...]
Posted in Moleskine, Painting, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor on July 11, 2007 | 20 Comments »
Ink & watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
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When I was traveling across country many years ago, taking an old highway instead of a huge interstate, I stopped for breakfast in an old-fashioned roadside diner with wood panelled walls and big, dark padded booths. I was handed a typed menu covered in [...]
Posted in Drawing, Moleskine, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages on July 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
All sketches are ink in small Moleskine notebook
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The Fishtank Ensemble performs a fascinating mix of Eastern European/Klezmer/Gypsy/Flamenco/Japanese music and their beautiful lead singer has the most astonishing, operatic voice. They were performing at Ashkenaz on a Wednesday night while I was on vacation and I went by myself to hear them [...]
Posted in Life in general, Oil Painting, Still Life on July 8, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Oil painting on RayMar panel, 8×6″
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I’ve been dieting the past couple weeks, trying to take off the 10 pounds I put on over the past year and a half of blogging instead of jogging. It’s been made considerably easier by the wonderful fresh summer fruit I’ve been eating. I think [...]
Posted in Cartoon art, Digital art, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art, Photoshop painting on July 7, 2007 | 17 Comments »
Sketched on paper, traced manually in Painter and then automatically in Illustrator, colored in Painter, converted to Photoshop and “saved for web”.
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This weeks Illustration Friday challenge is “Geeky.” The original definition of a geek is someone from a circus or carnival freak show who ate live animals such as mice, including [...]
Posted in Oil Painting, Painting, Still Life on July 4, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Oil on panel, 6×8″
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Despite today being my last day of vacation, my cat barfing in response to fireworks, and my 3-year-old refrigerator dying yesterday, my muse has finally returned and I got started on some new painting projects. The first one is this small oil painting to try to understand what [...]
Posted in Animals, Flower art, Outdoors/Landscape, Watercolor on July 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches paper, 11 x 7.5″ (with a touch of white gouache on antennae)
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(Above) Reference photo I took on Thursday at Blake Gardens.
I have two more days of vacation left and finally I’m really ready to paint. I’ve sorted out the images I want to work from and [...]
Posted in Digital art, Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art, Photoshop painting on July 1, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Drawn with pencil, scanned, redrawn and digitally painted in Painter
Apparently I’m suffering from an artist’s form of writer’s block–instead of working with oils or acrylics like I planned to today, I procrastinated by making this crappy illustration instead. I’m feeling sad and annoyed with myself that I spent my painting time today drawing on the [...]
A peek inside the sketchbook, studio, and world of San Francisco Bay Area artist and watercolor teacher Jana Bouc.
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