Whew! Been awhile since I've posted, or even visited this little spot. I don't have just a ton of work to post but there's enough to make a too-long post. I find lately that I'm reluctant to share online. I'm paranoid, I guess, about copyrights and such, but also I tend to use my sketchbooks as journals and I really just don't feel like putting all that out there. Now if we were sitting at my kitchen table, I'd have no problem with you looking through any of my books, but there's something disturbing about the impersonal nature of blogging. Maybe it's just a phase I'm going through.
That said, here are a few sketches. Strangely enough I uploaded them in the opposite order they were created. It'll be just like traveling backward in time. Like Dr. Who. First up, a saucy flamingo painted in my watercolor sketchbook with gouache. As the journaling notes, I've fallen back into the bird habit. Hard. I thought I'd moved on, but here we go again. I may never finish that longhorn painting on the easel.
...and a Sooty Tern, for you consideration. Ballpoint with acrylic and gouache accents in moleskine
...and a couple a dancing Pelicans... acrylic and gouache in moleskine
I'm dying to learn the art of graffiti . When I worked at the bank I used to sit in my car at lunch and look at the train cars stopped in the rail yard across the street and marvel at all the graffiti. How do they do that? Make art with spray paint in minutes all the while looking over your shoulder? Cool. I want to study it more. Clearly just trying to write my name in this stylized manner strained my brain. Ballpoint pen in moleskine
Okay first of all, I don't really draw people that well. Okay. That's settled. I know I need practice so from time to time I practice with my own face. And anytime someone sees these self portraits I hear how they don't look like me. I can't really tell. Sometimes I know they don't and sometimes I just don't care. I drew a face. I used mine as a guideline. We'll leave it at that. Ballpoint pen in moleskine.
These last two offers were done during and just after our ski trip to Santa Fe. We had a great time. Loved the city and I think we will definitely go back. However, I'd never skied before and it was a bit (just a bit) of a traumatic experience for me. Above, acrylic and pen in moleskine. Below, uniball in moleskine.
So...that's enough for tonight. I'm thrilled to have more time to draw and paint and hope to post a little more regularly. It really is a good motivator. Hope you all have a fabulous rest of the week.
