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ball point sketch on paper

Sometimes, I re-read books and they don't have the same impact as before. Sometimes, I re-read them and they hit me harder. Roadside picnic by Brothers Strugatsky made me cry. This is my favorite book by them, although I do so love Monday starts on Saturday. But this book! I wish more people would read it.

(2B pencil on 132mm x 86mm paper) I did think of writing something in the speech bubble but decided it worked best as a kind of "silent scream" so I left it blank.

Practicing sketching trees. I'm starting to get a little bit of a handle on light and shade.

Image derived from a photo by Yousuf Karsh

I will try to put the challenge or the YouTube link of the challenge in the caption of another art piece or in a comment.

Just another one of my little gnomes

#inktober2023

Inktober Day 1(Dream) Year 2 I'm so happy I'm doing this again for a second year. For years I have always heard about inktober, but never had the time or courage to attempt it. But here I am doing it for a second time. I suggest getting the word list a month early and doing some drawings in september

Acrylic and watercolor on Canson Paper

This was the first of the same lion drawn on two different surfaces. This one was drawn in pastels on sanded paper.

Another dino on a bike

11 SEP 2023

01 SEP 2023

I found a website for drawing prompts. This is the first one it gave me.

Drawing of an abstract sculpture of fantasy creatures @ IU Art Museum Medium: Pencil on 18" * 24" paper

Don't worry about it hon.

The fearless Ms. Sinead O’Connor. 2023, Ballpoint Pen on 5.5” x 7” (11” x 7” double page spread) Midori FO Cotton Sketchbook.

Weird black and white world

I named him Fido. He took exception and ate me! Now this grouchy dragon is perched on his favorite outcrop.

Favorite words. Peregrine. Nothing to be thoughtful or clever here. Peregrine is peregrine. I just like the sound of it. And the birds themselves too.

Known as the Groundquaker to the hill people, the Foundation Walker to the townsfolk and Betty to her pen pals.

sketch made with markers and ink

These are some gesture drawing sketches I did in ink with white pen highlights on brown paper. I was in Europe and sitting around a fountain watching people go about their lives. This was a really fun figure study and I think people make for great works of art.

Coyote Studies!