Aug25Art

Two weeks in a row, instead of green olives in my Calzone, I got black olives or I got green peppers.  The second week the manager recognized me and we discussed the issue with the chefs not reading the order, because in both cases the waiter had entered the order correctly.  This weekend going to Edisto Island on Sunday, so no Calzone this weekend.

Aug24Art

I had to give drawing the man from Sktchy another try.  On the left the blind contour drawing yesterday on the right the drawing looking at the paper.  Sort of looks like him, I drew his nose too short.  I used the circular drawing method, started in the center and worked my way out and around.

Aug23Art

Lapin class this week, a blind contour face.  I used the Sktchy app to find someone to draw.  I may try to draw the face tomorrow... as this sort of drawing is abstract by design.  Used some Prussian Blue paint with my size 16 Mop to make some marks on the page too.

Aug23Art

Watched Sketchbook Skool 'Draw tip Tuesday' video, today.  Sketching an apple with colored pencil,  so I had to give it a try.  I have colored pencils and I use them mostly on my little weather forecasts.  Shading and using them is something I do very often,  I'm usually too lazy to spend so much time putting down layer after layer of color.

Aug21Art

 I wasn't able to get a good photo, as it was cloudy, but we did get to see the total eclipse today.  It was amazing,  this is the second one I've seen, I saw one in 1970 too, unless I travel great distances, this will be the last one I ever see.

Aug19-20Art

Full weekend, rode to Georgetown on Saturday, met with Ron's brother and his wife for dinner Saturday night.  Sunday Mellow Mushroom for lunch then shopping at Wally World, rode up to Summerville for dinner at the Carolina Ale house... next thing you know it's time for bed and eclipse tomorrow.

Aug18Art

Paint blob doodles,  for these, I painted the circle of color, then sprayed clean water in the center of each blob... then tipped the sketchbook up to create the drips... the orange one, did a double drip... When dry I doodled in the flower petals and leaves.  Fun stuff.

Aug17Art

Day gobbled up and gone before I knew it.  

Aug16Art

Wow, two days in a row, where rain was predicted but it didn't actually rain at my house.  Decided to draw one of my palette knives tonight,  I only have two.  As a watercolor painter I rarely use palette knives for painting (it's an oil painter thing I think).  I have used them to scrape on a watercolor painting, and probably sinfully used them as letter openers.

AUg15Art

Day isn't over, but it hasn't rained here all day today... yippee!  Just fooled around with a tooth brush to spatter paint, blocking off an area for a quote today.

Aug14Art

Rained most of the day today... sigh.  My flowers are loving the rain, I'm about tired of it.  Forecast for the rest of the week, is rain every day this week... ugh.

Aug13Art

Put some ink tense pencils color down, then used a uni-ball signo white gel pen for the doodles.   It was NOT supposed to rain today, my morning forecast predicted NO rain today,  so it rained on and off all day long.. sigh.  We were going to ride up to Moncks Corner this afternoon, but as we headed that way, dark sky ahead made us cut it short and loop through Summerville instead.  We managed to get home without getting wet.

Aug12Art

We managed to get a short ride in today, before the thunderstorms hit.  Tried to go to Mellow Mushroom, but it was packed and had a long wait, so we went down to Parson Jack's in West Ashley.  I had the 10" pizza Ron had a Philly Cheese Steak.

Aug11Art

Watercolor paint blob birds,  some very shaky long legs.  Finally, enough sun today to manage to get the yard cut.  Took the car to Columbia and ran thru heavy fog in Orangeburg this morning, and rain coming home,  but it cleared up this afternoon, and so far hasn't rained tonight.
TRIGGER WARNING... skip the rest if politics upsets you.
I was in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis in the 60s, now we're having another missile crisis.  I'm not too worried about it, but I imagine the folks in South Korea and Guam are worried sick about what the crazy man in North Korea might do.  Democrats are worried what our crazy President might do (I think perhaps the North Koreans should be very worried about it).