Oil on canvas panel, 9×12″ (Larger)
The painting above is not great, but it’s loose and free and painted plein air with no touching up in the studio.
I’ve been painting and repainting the formerly plein air painting below over the past few days and it’s been both a good learning experience and discouraging. Mostly what I’ve [...]
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Oil on canvas panel, 9×12″ (Larger)
Painted plein air
Last weekend the two plein air groups I belong to combined and met at Matthew Turner Park in Benicia on San Pablo Bay. It was a gorgeous, sunny crisp day and a nice switch to be meeting in the afternoon instead of first thing in the morning.
There were [...]
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Posted in Animals, Cartoon art, Drawing, Dreams, Illustration Friday, Ink, Painting, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, tagged Dreams, flying, Illustration Friday, Ink, Watercolor, whales on December 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in 5.5″ square dream sketchbook (Larger)
I love my flying dreams. In this one I was flying over the ocean and saw some whales frolicking below. I flew down and was playing with them when one bit my arm hard. I knew he meant no harm though, so once he let my [...]
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Oil on masonite panel, 6″x6″ (Larger)
Although I personally don’t celebrate Christmas, I thought a bright orange tangerine would be a fitting tribute to the day (see below about the tradition of oranges and tangerines as stocking stuffers).
My sons and my dear friends and family are all with their significant others and families and knowing they’re [...]
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All are drawn in ink and then watercolored in 5.5″ square sketchbook
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(Above) Dreamt my hairdresser shot someone and was going to jail.
The really bad part was that I was going to have to find another hairdresser.
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(Above) Dreamt that Hillary Clinton was visiting her OB/GYN. The doctor left the door unlocked so a bunch [...]
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Ink & watercolor in 5.5″ square sketchbook (Larger)
Last night I dreamt that I found a lime-green, kiwi-colored tabby cat in the rainforest jungles of England (huh?). It laid on on it’s back purring, wanting it’s fuzzy tummy rubbed. This was a nice dream to wake up to, after the terrible one I had [...]
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Welcome to my newly reorganized studio. Would you like a cup of tea or coffee? My sister Marcy Voyevod, an interior designer with an amazing sense of spatial relations, came over last Wednesday night to give me some suggestions on how to rearrange things in my studio. I’d told her I wanted to move [...]
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Posted in Drawing, Ink, Moleskine, Other artists, Outdoors/Landscape, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Studio, tagged ink drawing, Moleskine, Peets Coffee, Sketch on December 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Ink in Moleskine sketchbook (Larger)
After taking a huge load of stuff to Goodwill and the recycling center (that came from three days of reorganizing the studio, which led to cleaning out my closets, cabinets and the garage) my reward was a latte at Peets (and what feels like a fabulous new, spacious [...]
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Ink in Moleskine sketchbook
Just a quick sketch while waiting in the doctor’s office (after studying all the charts of spines and wrists and skeletons). I was really enjoying drawing and hoping he’d be delayed but he wasn’t and then I had to return to the office. Nobody could focus this afternoon after an [...]
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Oil on panel, 9″x12″ (larger)
This is the same scene I did a few days ago in watercolor last week. I’m not sure if I’m done or not, but it’s time to set it aside and give it a week to see what if anything is still needed. It’s interesting how much better I like it [...]
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Posted in Cartoon art, Cats, Drawing, Dreams, Life in general, Other artists, Painting, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, tagged Cats, Dreams, sketchbook, Watercolor on December 7, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Ink and watercolor in sketchbook (Larger)
I did these dream drawings right after I woke up, sitting in bed with a special SAD light (see previous post) propped up on my lap, shining on my face. My friend loaned me her spare light to see if it helped. I’m not sure if it was the lights, [...]
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Posted in Flower art, Life in general, Outdoors/Landscape, Painting, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, tagged , dark, flower stand, flowers, Ink, night, sketchbook, Watercolor on December 5, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Ink & Watercolor in Canson 7″x10″ Sketchbook (Larger)
This little flower stand looked inviting and yet so forlorn all by itself on a dark, lonely corner in downtown Oakland the night before Thanksgiving. On my way home from work I stopped to take a few photos using a postbox as a tripod and [...]
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Oil on canvas panel, 9″x12″ (Larger)
I started this painting at Point Pinole last month but it had so many problems that I put it aside and never posted it. Today I decided to give it a do-over. It was either that or reclaim the panel by covering it in gray paint and using [...]
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Oil on canvas panel, 12″ x 9″ (Larger)
I wasn’t satisfied with the way this painting turned out the first time I declared it done so I worked on him again. I fixed some drawing problems (as much as they could be fixed this far along), lightened the street, darkened the background and the [...]
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Ink in Moleskine sketchbook (Larger)
Usually I sit in an inconspicuous spot when I sketch on BART but the only available seat was the kind where two passengers sit facing two others. This lady at first seemed annoyed at my sketching her — since our knees were nearly touching I couldn’t hide what [...]
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