Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings, tagged BART, Ink, sketches, subway drawing on April 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
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Once everyone left the office I could finally concentrate on a complicated project. By the time I finished and headed out it was nearly 8:00 p.m. I arrived at the BART station just as my train was pulling away and the flashing sign said it would be 20 minutes until the next one. I was [...]
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Ink & watercolor (Larger)
Saturday I painted wtih the East Bay Plein Air Painters at the foot of 5th Avenue in Oakland. It’s an amazing little enclave of funky art studios, rusty old boats in a beat-up marina, and industrial buildings not far from Jack London Square.
I arrived very late, being unable to push myself this [...]
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Posted in Sketchbook Pages on April 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Oil on panel, 14×11″ (larger)
These roses were making me sneeze. I’d set up the still life last Monday and then ran out of time on the painting and left it set up all week. When I finally got back to painting today, the studio smelled like like a perfume factory. That might be a pleasant [...]
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Posted in Cats, Drawing, Life in general, Painting, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor, tagged being single, Cats, Ink, living alone, socks, Watercolor on April 22, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Ink & watercolor (larger)
I was folding my laundry and admiring my collection of wonderful SmartWool socks when it struck me: I haven’t lost a single sock since I began living alone. When I was married with kids, socks disappeared on a regular basis and I had a drawerful of one-of-a-kind socks.
My son still comes over [...]
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Posted in Cats, Drawing, Flower art, Gardening, Glass, Painting, Pen and Ink, Plants, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor, tagged ink sketch, roses, Watercolor, Zen on April 20, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Ink & watercolor, 9×6″ (larger)
When I picked these roses yesterday evening, they were heartbreakingly fresh, new and beautiful. I put them in a vase of water in the kitchen, planning to paint them today. This morning I found them laying on the counter where they’d obviously been without water too long and looked limp.
Either they [...]
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Posted in Drawing, Life in general, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, tagged bathroom, dictionary, grateful, Ink, language, Sketch, spelling, toilet, Watercolor, WC, word origins on April 17, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Ink & Kremer watercolors (larger)
I’m probably going to regret this post tomorrow so I apologize in advance if you find the image unsavory. It’s just that I was so tired tonight all I wanted to do was curl up with a good book and a big bowl of popcorn. To avoid the carb overload and [...]
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11 colors x 11 colors = Joy! (Larger)
Richard Schmid said it best, when writing about his experience with doing these charts when he was an art student:
“When I finished I knew more about my paint than I had ever thought possible. It was an astonishing experience—imagine being taken into the kitchen of a great [...]
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Ink & watercolor, 8×6″ (larger)
When we had all our paintings lined up to view after our plein air paint-out today, a very cheery homeless man passed by, examined everyone’s work, and announced that my oil painting (below) was the only one he would buy, repeating this several times. It wasn’t as high praise as one [...]
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Ink & watercolor in Strathmore Drawing 6×8″ sketchbook (larger)
A tall, overstuffed, nerdy guy sat down beside me on the commute home, opened his laptop and started watching a bloody horror movie. It was one of those movies with a creepy doll in it.
I turned away from him, tired from my first day back at work [...]
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Brown Micron Pigma ink and watercolor in homemade sketchbook, 5×7″ (larger)
Need I say more?
I had a quiet, restful weekend, got enough sleep, didn’t stand out in the wind painting, and what do I get for it? A cold! That will teach me to slow down. Maybe if I just keep moving as fast as I [...]
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Painting blocks to use in light and color-study still-life as explained in this previous post. (Newly gessoed panels drying in little rack behind the blocks).
After jumping head first (or was it feet first?) into oil painting, and then flailing about, trying to find my way, I realized it was time to go back [...]
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ANDY by JANA
Ink & watercolor, Aquabee sketchbook, 12×9″ (larger)
Andy of “Drawn to Running” emailed me and invited me to do a portrait swap with him. I think he’s quite adorable and looks like someone with a very kind heart. I exaggerated in my sketch of him but had great fun doing the drawing, which [...]
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Ink and watercolor in Aquabee sketchbook (larger)
When my father was dying several years ago, I flew to Maine to help with his care and say goodbye. I arrived in late October, on a warm, fall day, and he was still eating and talking and trying to finish his last book, which I helped him edit [...]
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