inside...

(07-07-2011. On a self-imposed isolation today to help a booboo heal. So the B was my choice of sketching today.)

160th post....shadow...

(07-06-2011. Pardon the darkness, but the photo was in a darker room, and if I lightened it any, I'd take away the lines.  This one was a bit of exploration with sketching and using not-so-scribbly-lines to define shadow areas. Sort of like a topographical map. I kinda diggit.)  :)

159th post (this time for real... {;)

(07-05-2011. A bit of a break today. Not that I didn't create anything, but I got a bit caught up in my project.  So my creativity went into painting THESE lines... working on the beach front. The wall, lower green area, and rocky area off to the right are definitely not done. And the lake. I think. I'm painting this one as a present. For my mom. So she doesn't try to steal the other painting I did of a cityscape.  It's okay. She doesn't have a computer.  So this one is just between you and me, okay?)  ;-D

158th post. huge failure...

(07-04-2011. Or IS it... I've never been very good at reproducing electronic equipment by just eyeballing it. Too much perspective for fun sketching...at least MY idea of fun sketching... if I want to see an exact replica I'll look in an owner's manual.  Or get out my ruler and start drawing a lot of angles and planes to fill in. Instead my sketches look a bit flat, a bit off, like it's in the first stages of exploding. Which to me is, well, fun. After a lot of sketching I suppose the second grader charm will be gone, to be replaced by something a bit more mundane, but I'll take what I've got now... for giggles.)

daisies.

(07-03-2011. Blind drawing siting outside of the daisies in the courtyard. I like this one quite a bit, because I like the pen that I was using.  It has a gripping nib that, as I draw it across the paper, catches and releases ans makes quite the cool lines. Added to that the great inktense colored pencils...the background of which I added a bit of water to make a partial wash...and there ya go.)

a detail of the cool pen....

156th post...too much in the middle...

(07-02-2011. Okay, I'm cool with some of the lines on this one, but if you'd want to consider it successful you'd either have to loosen up some more with the lines and the line weight or you'd have to tighten up.  This one is too in the middle.  But hey, we have to take the good with the bad... )  :)

Drawing

(07-01-2011. Well, not ME drawing. Technically, though, I guess you COULD say me drawing. Me drawing my niece. Too confusing.  ANYWAY...I need to ditch this pen, I think.  It's dying big time.)