Day 267 – Dr Sketchys – Part 2

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015Leave a comment

All of these were drawn last week at Dr Sketchys. An about ten drawings that note. Dr Sketchys is always the Kay Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at Chat Noir at 8th and Ellis in downtown Augusta Ga. But it is a worldwide movement. You can find a group near you or start one!!!

All sketches are down with Pentel brush pen Pentel color brush pens and Tombow markers.

Cosmo detail posted earlier today on IG. A great model. Interesting poses. And he held them. This was a ten minute pose.

Cosmo the whole guy!! His boots were too big and flipped on his feet which made them hard to draw.

Cosmo – oops he didn’t need his foot!! A lot of red lights on him.

Cosmo is a fire water. This is actually two poses. He ate fire first. Then he loaded putting it out.

And poor Cosmo was embarrassed by this pose.

The last pose of the night. I think the elephant was funny. Others not so much. And that’s a wrap. Something new tomorrow.

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Day 266 – More Urban Sketching

March 29, 2015March 30, 20152 Comments

The little boy in the blue shirt was helicoptering his arms and I tried to capture that.

These are the very first Fast sketches I did of people going into Earthfare as I sat waiting to meet my friend to drive downtown to dr Sketchys.

Finally got them colored. These are definitely like potato chips. You can’t do just one. And people love looking at them too. Trying to see if they know who is in the sketch.

These are done in a largest Strathmore 500 Mixed Media Journal with a Pentel Brush pen and colored with watercolor pens and Tombow markers.

These were done in my moleskine accordion book. I have now filled up about five feet of it.

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Day 263 – the last breakfast at least til Sunday

March 26, 2015Leave a comment

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.

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Day 244 – Those Squirrels

March 7, 2015Leave a comment

At times I get bored drawing the birds on the back porch and I draw the squirrels. Actually they are easier to draw than the birds because the hold still sometimes for quite a while. The squirrels are drawn with Noodler Lexington Gray ink and are painted with watercolor. A combo of Quin Sienna and cerulean. I don’t understand why the Lexington Graybis waterproof while the supposedly Bulletproof black and the eelskin so not. So strange.

Like a stupid head I drew one squirrel right in the center! A disaster!! I decided to paint over it with some of the Schminke gouache and yes it covered the squirrel completely!! Hurrah.

Next came the trial of trying to write the words on it. Finally I got the Kuratake brush to write on the gouache zip zip it was done.

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Day 243 – The Chicken or All Roz’s Fault!!

March 5, 2015March 5, 2015Leave a comment

This was the first chicken that posed for me when we went to Key West. I bought a box of Schminke gouache from Wet Paint last week and Roz said use them for two weeks. Painted on Strathmore 500 Mixed Media Paper.

Till I did the chicken all I had done was paint backgrounds to cover up boo boos like yesterday. I meant to paint my house or a church downtown that I have always loved as the last assignment for the last teacher in the last week of Sketchbookskool.

I ran across this chicken pic. He cocked his head at me and said paint me. I succumbed. What can I say?! Maybe that’s why I have been doing all the bird drawings. Practicing for this rooster.

First I drew him quickly on a scrap of paper laying on the table.

That did it. He hooked me. I got the sketchbook out.

And the lovely new box of Schminke gouache.

It came in this great wooden box. Almost too pretty to be touched! But I managed.

I used all the colors and tubes of M.Graham Azo yellow and pyrole red that I already had. It was much like painting with acrylics without the shiny plastic look they have. The colors covered well. Easy to mix. I did have to get out my acrylic brushes. The long watercolor brights were not stuff enough.

Tip: I used my monarch Winsor & Newton filberts and an escoda Prado filbert. After I switched to these the paint behaved so well. Went on easily and smoothly. Yesterday I discovered the stiffer hog bristle brushes leave ridges in the paint. Not a good look.

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Day 24o – The End of Downton Season 5

March 3, 2015March 3, 20152 Comments

I meant to draw more of the players but somehow it did not record. So I drew Lady Violet Crawley Dowager Countess of Grantham. What a name?! I hope I got it right. Nobody is better than Maggie Smith in her part.

My favorite character Lady Violet always has some smart answer.

I drew her with my Noodler Creaper Ahab loaded with Carbon Black Ink. I love that pen. Makes such great lines because of its flex nib and so cheap.

I drew the face and hat. Added a lot of crosshatching shading with the Creaper. A bit at a time. Hard to go back once these too much.

I originally had her name and the quote below Lady Violet who was in an oval. Originally I intended to paint the “mat” area.

I ran out of room for the quote so I got the bright idea of making an oval mat out of old ledger paper. I use it because the pen does well on it. Some paper the pen feathers on. Not a good look.

How did I get that oval? I might add it was perfect on the first attempt. I cut a piece of paper the same size as the sketchbook page. The I clipped it over the page, held it up to a sunny window and drew the oval. I then carefully cut it out from the inside out. I really was amazed that it fit exactly.

She was colored with caran d’ache and some Watercolor markers I got at Michaels. A lot of fun. No idea if they are lightfast but there are 24 of them. Cheaper than the nonlightfast Tombows.

Here’s the whole double page spread with more Lady Violet quotes. She’s so funny to me. All lettering down with the Noodler Creaper Ahab on Strathmore 500 Mixed Media paper.

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Day 239 – Four Reclining nudes in Twenty Minutes

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015Leave a comment

One of the guys gave me his chair dead center of the model yesterday so I could have a better view of the model but I only had twenty minutes left to draw. And no big paper – just my art journal. So these are what I did in 29 minutes.

Number 1 – a contour drawing with my Noodler Ahab on Strathmore 500 Mixed Media paper starting with the shoulders. I start there to get the shoulder angle right comparing it with the models shoulders to see if my line is parallel to her shoulder line. The I drew across the top Of her hips and legs continuing across the bottom back to her shoulders. The crosshatching was added after the contour drawing as was her face. I hate her face so decided to turn the page and start again.

This is number two. I think she went better and her face looks better.

Number there is the big one in the bottom with the Pentel brush pen. I think her thigh is too big and her head a tad small.

So onward to number four. Only about five minutes left. That’s my favorite. The PBP makes great drapery fast!!

They were quick fun sketches and I think a bit Henry Moore or Picassoish.

Which one is your favorite?!

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Day 237-Dr Skeychys – Part 2

February 27, 2015Leave a comment

It was hard to see the models legs because they were behind the hulka hoo

I won two tickets to the next theatrical at Chay Noir. It reminds me of a strongman posing at a sideshow. Started with my Noodler Ahab and filled I with my Pentel brush pen and my red Tombow.

I am not really fond of any of these. Started with my Noodler Ahab and filled I with my Pentel brush pen and my red Tombow. Accents with my wink of Stella’s. I have a red, a black, and a gold one.

The last pose of the night?! I guess she was tired. I know we were after more than ten sketches in a couple of hours.

Started with my Noodler Ahab and filled I with my Pentel brush pen and my red Tombow.

Day 236 – Dr Sketchys

February 27, 20152 Comments

Our favorite art event of the month- the last Wednesday of the month at Chat Noir.

Between crosshatching those buttons for hours and the rain I was NOT in the groove last nite.

We did a bunch of one minute gesture sketches which are usually great but the model moved making them harder than usual.

1 minute gesture sketches. Was NOT in the groove. Pentel brush pen with a prepainted background in my Strathmore 500 mixed media journal.

Not sure how long these were. Two minutes perhaps. Same poise reversed. Pentel brush pen with a prepainted background in my Strathmore 500 mixed media journal.

5 minutes but she moved the whole time. At least I am going with that excuse. I didn’t draw because I was getting frustrated with the model moving all the time.

Finally she held still. I drew her with my Noodler Creaper Ahab which I love loaded with Carbon Platinum black ink. Things improved somewhat. But I only had red Tombow markers, a gold Pitt pen, and the Pentel brush pen. Poor planning. All the pink and red is done with the tombow.

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Day 235 – Buttons

February 25, 20152 Comments

making me cross eyed. More homework. Love the brown De Artremos document ink. Delicious. On Strathmore 500 Mixed Media paper.

This took about 6 hours and is about 8×11 “. There are about 115 buttons. It’s almost impossible to count them.

A friend asked me how do you do it? I told her one button at a time. I probably should not have drawn it I. Two three hour sessions. It could literally been drawn one button at a time whenever I had time.