Category: Evans Georgia

Day 286 Another Accordion Book 

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 Sennelier USK journal book. 

  Kuretake brush pen till it ran out. Then my Pentel brush pen. It was colored with Tombow markers and watercolor and flesh Winsor newton gouache.

  TIP: The flesh gouache makes painting skin tones easy! No mixing so no fuss. 

This one has been completed since earlier this week.  I was saving it for the weekend to post. 

 

  

Most of it was drawn at the local walking track or dog park. 

  

  

The stroller was amazingly easy to draw with a brush pen. A few stokes zip zip and done. 

The last half was drawn while patting in my car in the Earthfare parking lot starting with the lady in the black and white dress. 

  

 

Earthfare 

  

Earthfare

 

 Earthfare

  

  The entire strip. About 36″ long. Nice heavy paper. You could draw on the back but you would not have a lot of paper length which is part of what makes these books fun. 

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Day 273 -The last post of my Bayeux Tapestry

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something new tomorrow. 

 

 I thought that my Bayeux Tapestry would fit in this tv cabinet which is huge. NOPE. The TV is a 50″ one. I mean the book is only 210 inches. Just shy of six feet. But I think it looks cool there anyway. 

  

Sennelier Urban Sketch Accordion with heavy paper. 

I found a temporary replacement at Binders. A nice heavy Sennelier accordion book but it’s only about a yard long. Not quite the impact of the long moleskine.  However that paper is much better.  Heavy nice paper. You could draw on both sides I think with no problem.

Bytw I also found out that Moleskine has outsourced all their books to China. The not so great paper is really terrible now. I won’t be buying more.  I am going to bind one. 

How hard can an accordion book be!?  I got some light weight BFK Rives paper, some Stonehenge and some of Binders brand like Stonehenge to give a whirl too. Exited but will have to wait till I get home because I don’t have all the tools here to do it with. Hence the purchase of the Sennelier book. 

In the meantime here is a closeup of all the panels. Promise last post of the moleskine. Done with Pentel brush pen, colored Pitt brush pens,  tombows, flesh watercolor and flesh gouache. 

 

Evans Towne Center walking track and dog park

  

   Evans Towne Center walking track and dog park

  

Evans Towne Center walking track and dog park

  

Evans Towne Center walking track and dog park

  

Evans Towne Center walking track and dog park and Inner Bean 

  

Inner Bean 

  

Inner Bean and Edgewood Target Atlanta

  

Edgewood Target Starbucks Atlanta

  

Edgewood Target Starbucks  Atlanta

Day 272 My Bayeux Tapestry Part 2

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the last panels of the book. Actually the first ones that I did. 

  

270 inches long  Moleskine accordion 3.5×5″

  

This section was drawn at the Evans Towne Center Park and the dog park there. I love the walkers swinging their Arms and leaning forward. The people with their dogs are also a favorite. Bicycle guy rice by twice before I decided to draw him. And of course he never came back after I started him. Oops!

  

An overlap. Some of this was drawn in the Earthfare parking lot while I waited for my friend to carpool to life sketching at USC Aiken. He rest was drawn at the Inner Bean. 

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Day 271 – A Bayeux Tapestry?! Part 1

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A friend, Neil Foster, dubbed it my Bayeux tapestry and oddly it does look a bit like it. 

 

 7 feet of Moleskine accordion book. Colored with Tombows and watercolor  markers. Drawn with my Pentel brush pen.  

 And the question is – do the back??! 

I could hang it on the wall the way it is now.  If I do the back you can only ever see one side  and some of the watercolor and pen did bleed thru to the back. I could cover it up by writing all over the background. Too many decisions.  I m not going to think about it. It will tell me when it’s ready. 

  

I did the last 35 inches at the Edgewood target Starbucks in Altlanta which is most of this panel. The first five people were done at the Inner Bean in Augusta. 

  

 Most of these figures were done at the Inner Bean in Augusta thought here is a big overlap of figured. 


I drew this in four sessions. These are the last two. A lot of fun. If only the paper in the moleskine were better. I have been looking for better paper while I am in Atlanta to possibly make my own. I will keep u posted. 

TIP: Run and buy a tube of flesh gouache.  I used Winsor Newton. That was the only gouache sold at Utrecht Dick Blick where I went today.   A God send for the pen strokes that went astray. I LOVE IT!! Covered all the boo boos. And I always find a good flesh color in gouache is a pain to mix. 

Oh another tip. Walkers can make the best people to draw swinging their arms or the dog park people standing around yakking. 

Will post part 2 tomorrow. 

 Thanks for looking!