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Day 263 – the last breakfast at least til Sunday

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Looking at my sketchbook a friend pointed out to me today that I must really be into my breakfasts. Of course I should have retorted that she was the one who got me into going out for breakfast. She’s been doing it for years  before I met her. Now that we have both left the teaching profession we meet once or twice a week for breakfast and then I run errands in town. If I stay home I get busy and put the errands off. Not good when it’s a Target bill that I pay off every month or time to pay for the cell phone. 

 

 My favorite breakfast is the breakfast bowl at the inner bean a local cafe run by two moms Donna and Ann. Keeps them skinny!! 😃   Back to the bowl. I think it’s pretty healthy.  Be healthier if I left out the bacon but is 60% of the wheat is drenched in roundup before we eat it might as well enjoy our bacon.  Much tastier than wheat. 

Last nite was Dr Sketchys. Our favorite art event of the month. Last night was stellar. I won a contest twice. Here’s one of the sketches.

 

This is Cosmo a burlesque performer in a five minute pose. Cosmo could hold a pose like the Rock of Gibraltar. Pentel brush pen in my strathmore mixed media journal. And yes he has three hats on his head!! 

 

 Something else I did yesterday that was terrific fun while waiting for my friend Ruth at Earthfare. I drew the customers as they went in and out of the store. Just gesture sketches but SuPeR fun.  

  

Stay tuned for a post on these.  There are a lot of them. 

Thanks for looking!!

 

Day 262- and Some Art Before Lunch 

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Art before lunch. Very fast sketch from a distance. Think I was more into drawing the fountain than the couple who were having the best conversation outside at the inner bean while smoking and enjoying the weather.

  

This was drawn with my Pentel brush pen. Lettering was done with my Lamy Vista fine nib. The painting was done mostly with watercolor and with some gouache. 

I had a lot of trouble painting the flesh tones. The best thing I finally discovered while painting this was how to make flesh  using gouache. I tried the way I mix it with watercolor. Light yellow and a clear red. Not good when combined with white.

Then I tried white with a tiny bit of English red and bingo. Great flesh color!! Who knew?! I painted the skin before I went to book club and while I was there I studied the other ladies’ skin tones. Studying always helps. Then I came home and repainted them. Thank goodness. 

Random success!👏I have to say I think the girl is a little skinny and the arm too short but oh well. It’s done and I am turning the page!! 

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Day 262 – Some Art Before Breakfast

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  Sorry not to post this sooner but I have been drawing too much. And have too many pages to post. I did draw my breakfast this morning too but yet to paint it. Tomorrow or after I go for a walk tonite.  I seem to like to paint at nite. 

This was inspired by Danny Gregory’s blog post recently of his breakfast. I am not likey to make a habit of drawing before breakfast. I don’t like cold eggs. Grits however and tea take a while to cool down!  

This was done with my Pentel brush pen. Then I journaled on it a bit. And finally I painted it with Schminke gouache. The background color is watered down gouache. The grey on the cup was made with indigo and white. The mushrooms were painted with a brown made from yellow, red and indigo lightened with white. 

Thanks for looking. At least one more breakfast coming!! 

Day 256 – Another Dog

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Dogs are big in my family. All of us have at least one and some of us have several. I have two. A Jack Russell who I posted a couple of days ago and a huge lab. Honey is a chow hound. Loves biscuits and I mean the southern kind not cookies but she will eat those too. She is always thinking about food.  

When I got her from the Aiken pound she weighed about 75 lb. We have fixed that. She now weighs about 110 pounds.  The dog seriously loves food. She also steaks food off the kitchen counter especially any bread product. 

Anyway this is drawn with a black Pentel brush pen. The highlights are gouache as is the background.  The lettering is done with the Kuratake brush pen. 



The thought of food makes her joyful. And you can see it I this picture. 

Thanks for looking!! 

Day 254 – Sunday!! 

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Sundays I like to watch CBS Sunday Morning and Super Soul Sunday but not today. Zoe sat down next to me and she was watching to see what I was doing. And I thought “What a great painting she would make! so I took a photo of her.

 And then of course I drew her. If I had drawn her from life she would have gotten on the back of the sofa and turned her back to me before I was done drawing her. 





Zoe version 4. I realized she was way to fat In the last photo so I put her on an instant diet. I think she is done I hope she is done. She lost an inch in about a half an hour. Best diet ever. But who knows?!😃 in the morning she may need something else done. Stillman and birn zeta gouache Kuratake ink pen. #drawyourdog

She went they several stages. This is the finished one. Well you never know I may change her again. Zoe is done in schminke gouache and with my Kuretake brush pen in my Stillman & Burn Zeta. I had thought she was done twice before. 



This was the first time I thought she was done. Till I realized her back should be curved and NOT straight. OOPS!! I did like the odd wonkiness to her face. More on that in a minute. 



Here she is with her back curved the right way. I thought she was done for about a minute till I realized I needed to add some white to the Mohawk down her spine to make it look fluffier.  Back to the gouache. 



So here Zoe is with white hairs added to her Mohawk. Then I realized her nose was a twitch off as was her right eye. I got my #2 Isabey out. It’s a lovely  sable brush that will point like no other. I started adding bits of fine hair here and there on her face with white and caramel colors on her darker bits. I used indigo around her nose mixed with a bit of Sienna for blacks and greys. I also added some whiskers. 

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Day 252 – Those Beards!!!

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I must be feeling better because last nite I decided to draw Matthew Perry with his scruffy beard last night a la Roz Stendahl who posted guys with beards lol last week on her blog. I took a pic of him on his show Odd Couple. And that was it. 





Then I drew my son Ben who has been known to sport lots of chin hair of all kinds. They were going so well that I did a third one. 



Have always lived Jonny Lee Miller since I saw him in a Jane Austen movie. Combine him with Sherlock and some chin hair. I had to try. I will say I am not as pleased with him as the first two. 

 What was the quote on Matthew Perry. Ideas at 3 am might not be so great.Well neither are they at 11 pm when I did Johnny!! But they were a lot of fun. So much that when I met my friend Marsha at Waffle House I kept sneaking photos of guys with beards. They were everywhere. 

So how did I do these?  I found that the easiest way to do these was with the Pentel color brush. It’s easy to lighten and move the ink to shade with it. Then I went back in with my Pentel brush own to finish it off.  The background was done with gouache. Lettering with the Pentel brush pen. 

Bytw my son thinks I should do a graphic novel so I guess he linked his. He loves graphic novels and comic books. 

A lot of fun. Bet you can’t do just one!!