9/30/11

Today's drawing is in the Sketchbook Project's sketchbook. It's a marina near Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

9/29/11

First sketchbook project page

OK, there will be overlap. Today I'm posting the drawing I did in my new Sketchbook Project book. Sometimes I'll do another drawing for this blog, and other times I'll just use what I draw in the Sketchbook. Here's my blog about The Sketchbook Project.

9/27/11

Deer antler

I've drawn this antler before, but I didn't have time tonight to think of something new. Even a few minutes of drawing is very relaxing.

9/26/11

Sabu

Sabu was lying in front of me, just like this, and gazing at me for a long time, before I suddenly realized I should draw him! I had to go to the studio to get my sketchbook and pencils, and I asked him very nicely to stay, because I wanted to draw him. He did stay, just like that, until I got resettled in my chair and was ready to start drawing... and then he left! So I drew this from memory. He is doing "The Famous Sabu Paw-Tuck", as we call it. I love the way his shoulders protrude forward. His name is pronounced "Sayboo", by the way...

9/25/11

Rascal

 

I donated a charcoal portrait (of a person or pet) to Alex's high school fundraiser's silent auction, and this is the winner's choice. He is a Vizsla, or Hungarian Pointer, a beautiful reddish-brown dog with a slim build and very short, glossy fur.

9/20/11

Little crackle vase

 

This is a very pretty little blue and white crackle-glazed vase. I have no idea where it came from, I just had it among my still life stuff.

9/18/11

Cut up ATM card

I cut up this expired ATM card - instead of just cutting it in half, I made a bunch of random half cuts and folded it up. It was very sculptural, so I turned it different ways to draw it.

9/13/11

Malkie

 

It got late, and Malcolm was in the chair right next to me, as usual. He stayed pretty still, but ...

9/12/11

Cauliflower

 

Cauliflowers look like cumulus clouds to me, and vice-versa. The cauliflower stays fairly still, however.

9/11/11

Pile of sticks

This pile of sticks is on our deck, waiting to be tied into bundles for use as kindling this winter. It is the result of trimming and pruning trees and bushes in our yard. Most of it is cherry, and will make for good fireplace fires. This would have been a much more developed drawing, but I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

9/10/11

Bananas

I think these bananas were ripening before my eyes, I swear I was seeing more spots on them the longer I drew!

9/9/11

Large tape dispenser - charcoal on toned white paper

Well, every New Year's resolution has to get blown at some point... but I will try to do my daily drawings from now on...

9/5/11

September self-portrait, reworked

I wasn't all that happy with my last self-portrait - I thought the nose was too long. So I erased and shortened it, then I moved the mouth up. Something was still wrong, and I decided that I had placed the nearer eye too high and too far out. So I erased and moved it, too. Very dark pencil is hard to erase completely, and I didn't want it to look overworked. I think it is improved, not perfect, but I decided to stop. I'm going to use it as my profile picture until I do a better one.

I've been really inspired this week by looking at my new FB friend Carol Heft's drawings, and it made me want to draw more, and not be afraid to erase and change.

9/1/11

September self-portrait

The first of the month, self-portrait day, whether I like it or not! I used a mirror that hangs on the wall by my front door - the lighting was interesting. But I had to draw standing up, holding a heavy sketchbook, and so my aim was to do a Very quick drawing. Just for fun, I started at the very center - the bridge of the nose, and did the farther away eye first. Then down the nose, up to the near eye, top of the head, the ear, and mouth (which there is always something funny about.) I've always enjoyed drawing my glasses bisecting my eyes and causing distortions on my far cheek.