Apr30Art

Bye, bye April, just some circles with my colored brush pens.  Tomorrow I will start the Everyday in May challenge there's a Flickr group as well as a Facebook page and everyone is welcome to join in the fun.  Here's the list…Blogger wouldn't allow me to post the pdf, so I had to scan it and reduce the size, but you should be able to read it.  Join the Facebook group and you can download the pdf from there.

Apr29Art

Did this page inspired by the next lesson in Draw your Words.  It my first mixed media page.  I don't know if you can see them, but step one I cut out umbrellas from some origami papers I had and glue them down on the page.  I let them dry then used some colorbox ink (a pink thru purple mix of colors), and drug those around the page.  Found a quote about rain (which is what it did all day here), used a water soluble  graphite pencil to layout the letters, then used an extra fine Sharpie to outline the block and script lettering.  Finally I added some ink then pencil around the word Rain, the idea to make that word pop, not sure that worked.  This was fun but very time consuming, doing a drawing and adding a bit of watercolor usually takes me less that 30 minutes, so that appeals to my lazy side (or I'm busy and need a break side).

Apr28Art

Riots erupted in Baltimore over the killing of a black man in police custody.  There is no longer a leader in the black community like Dr. Martin Luther King, peaceful protests aren't happening. These days it is riots, car fires, destruction of a senior center, looting and wanton destruction. These riots accomplish nothing except destruction.  Very sad for the people of Baltimore.

Apr27Art

I finally mastered page 8 in my flute music book, on to page 9… I hope it doesn't take me 3 weeks to master like page 8 did.  Another long Monday for me, and so drawing something on my desk, my nail clippers.  I have really soft nails and break them a lot, which means I need nail clippers at hand to even out the breaks otherwise it can get really ugly really fast.  My father always carried a small knife and some nail clippers in his pocket, to this day I expect men to have these items in their pockets when I'm in need of a knife or nail clippers.  It is a disappointment to me that men don't seem to carry these bare necessities these days, so I have to provide them for myself.

Apr26Art

What a gorgeous day it was today, Ron and I washed off the pollen from our bikes and hit the road this afternoon.  We rode down Hwy 17 to Jacksonboro, stopped had some ice cream and then headed back to Charleston.  My little Honda Silverwing has been under cover for a long time, it was fun to ride again.

Draw your Words

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I'm taking a free workshop (click the link above).  Below is my homework for lesson 2 on Block Letters.  I didn't have any index cards, so I used some of my colored paper squares to do my block letter practice. 

Apr25Art

Blind contour of me, these are done without looking at the paper, and without lifting the pen. So eyes end up on the nose.. so what as Yogi would say.  Rainy and cool today, headed out to watch the hockey game with friends.

Draw Your Words

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I'm taking a free workshop (click the link above).  Below is my homework for the first lesson, a page of alphabets, put down the watercolor alphabets first and let them dry, then used a dip pen with red, blue and black ink.

Apr24Art

Planted flowers after work today, and then spent the evening watching the  Lapin Sketchbook Skool videos.  What an interesting artist he is, and how cool that he still has his sketchbook from when he was 4 years old…. so Moms out there, SAVE those drawings, of your little ones, some day the adult artists will cherish them.

Apr23Art

Not sure why I get the 'Draw Tip Tuesday' videos on Thursdays… but draw my feet was doable.  Went to the watch the Stingrays tonight, and we won 5 to 2 so the team will be back in Charleston next Tuesday.  Unless of course they win 2 more games in Redding.

Apr22Art

Where did this day go?  It's almost 11pm and I'm just now eating a bowl of ice cream and needed to draw something in my journal… so I did some art B4 bed, and drew my bowl of ice cream with chocolate syrup all over it.  

Apr21Art

Inspired by (plagiarized from) a new book I got today "Zenspirations Dangle Designs" by Joanne Fink.  It took a long time to do this so this is not for the lazy me.  I do like the alphabet she included in the book, and the circle dangles, are amazing.

Apr20Art

As usual my Monday's are hectic to the max, so this prompt this morning was fun to do.  Long skinny landscapes, one in water soluble ink and the other in permanent ink with color added.  Had to choose a Sullivan's Island photo for this one that included our ubiquitous Palmetto trees, and a quote from the Author of 'Out of Africa'.

Apr19Art

We got almost everything planted before the thunderstorms rolled thru Charleston, tornados did some really bad damage in Aiken SC, it just dumped a lot of rain on us.  Working in the yard always wears me out, going to feed the dogs and call it a day soon.