Been getting back into this a little bit to pass the time on long calls, while Jonny is taking a long bath, etc. and am very rusty but loving every minute of it. Here are a few random sketches from the past few months as I warm up a bit. It's been, um, almost twenty years since I have kept up with this. There is an odd assortment of pencil, watercolor and Tablet PC (Sketchbook Pro rocks) sketches. Got a way to go yet but the process is totally fun. I broke in the new, hacked watercolor case for the first few sketches which were from our trip to the Wildlife World Zoo. Still a few more to scan shortly...
The zoo drawings are done in a moleskine
watercolor sketchbook and the rest in a cheap recycled paper spiral bound.
Camels are impossible for me. No matter
how many times I breakdown the shape it never looks right. I think they
are more oddly shaped that I am willing to believe and that is why it is
so hard for me to push the shape where it needs to go. I need to learn a
few brush techniques one of these days...
Not sure what happened to the mane, A few
mis-strokes and it was all downhill from there...
Love the colors on this one but just
can't get them in the scan - grrr...
Tiger Splash at Out of Africa. Got to
work on my tigers!
Jonny's Giraffe and my first Sketchbook
Pro attempt. I had so much fun doing this sketch I decided to get
back into it again...
Have I mentioned that I own a Jeep?
Jonny in a froggy suit (Halloween) in Sketchbook Pro
This is a little wall hanging in the
upstairs bathroom I painted while Jonny was taking a bath.
An old one:
Playing with Sketchbook Pro:
A basket in our TV room:
Jonny watching Cars for the 1000th time
on the ipod:
My home office:
Cactuses from the yard:
One of the doomed trees on the way to
Jonny's school...
