5/31/11

Friends

I bought these funny little animals (and their furniture) at a small import store in Leesburg a few years back. They're about 3" tall. They're removable - you can switch them around on their seating. They sit on a bookshelf in my studio, and this is the first time they have ever posed for me. I used a Sharpie fine pen to draw their contours, and colored pencils to color them in. I had fun.

5/30/11

Blind contour, my left hand

This was a true blind contour drawing - I didn't look at the paper at all while I was drawing it. The idea is to look really hard at what you're drawing, and as your eye moves along, your pencil (or in this case, pen) moves along on the paper, which is out of your sight off to the side or behind you, at the same rate of speed. The results are always kind of weird, or hilarious, or cool - the point is that it trains your brain to see better.

5/29/11

Ampersand

This is a metal ampersand, about 3" tall, that I bought for the purpose of putting it into my "A" painting. I'm doing (at least I started) a series of paintings based on the alphabet - still lifes where everything in the painting has to start with the same letter. So far, I've only completed "B", but I'll get back to it - I'm always on the lookout for cool objects to represent the different letters.

5/28/11

Ball of string

5/27/11

Old friends

These Mr. Peanut cups came into my possession during that eBay buying spree of several years ago. I have more, and they're all different colors - one is even cobalt glass!

5/26/11

Mystery cable

This is one of those cables, probably to a long-gone cell phone, that lie around our house for years. We look at them, move them from place to place, and finally decide to throw them away. Then we realize what they went to, and that we still need them. At least that's the fear that makes us keep them around for so long.

5/25/11

Dusty

One of those days when there was no time to do a long drawing... Dusty was definitely Posing for me, she looked right at me and didn't move the whole time I was drawing her (only about two minutes.)