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Last month's sketchbook work. Slightly wonky because I was kinda rushing it. 2023, Double Page Spread-5” x 8,” Ballpoint Pen on Moleskine Sketchbook.

made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life

This was my final project for the "Portrait Sketchbooking" course by Gabriela Niko on Domestika.

Meadhbh with her long wild red hair all over the place. 2023, 5” x 8,” Ballpoint Pen on Moleskine Sketchbook.

Pencil drawing

From 2021, Meadhbh massaging her neck after a long pose. Red Bic pen drawing converted to black and white in Photoshop.

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04/16 Travel Memories : A Geisha Commissioned work: sketches about travel memories for an interior design website with graphite pencils only

sketchbook

THE BOOK from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory. "THE WOMAN RETURNS FROM THE STORE WITH AN armload of books. She reads them quickly, one by one, over the course of the next few weeks. But when she opens the last one, the woman frowns in surprise. All the pages in the book are blank. Every single one. The woman takes the book back to the store, but the manager won’t let her return it. Right there on the cover, the manager says, This book has no words and is non-returnable." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf61DnhO1NL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Or the weekend begins, whichever you choose. Acrylic painting on matchbook with watercolor + doodled background size 4 x 6 inches.

Just some drawings that I wasn't sure about posting or not. They did not come out bad but not amazing either.

SteveO with his arms up. An old ballpoint pen sketch from several years ago. Red Bic pen layer converted to black and white.

Oil painting- three dogs on a skateboard.

My Apple ii. Unless you've had one, you won't really understand. Even has a whole 64KB with the language card. TG Products joystick with a ribbon cable connector. No cassettes, it's 5.25" floppies! Amdek color monitor. This ended up looking like an advertisement from an old computer magazine.

This is a little practice run with faces, all drawn from my head without sketching in pencil first.

Digital Creation using iArtbook Pro and iPad Air 3. Reference used https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/529876712417317694/

An automatic drawing, everything is out of my head with only the briefest idea of a story line. I played around with shapes and lines and shading to see what affect would result. It was fun, but time consuming.

Random portraits found on earthsworld.com rendered with mechanical pencil and red lead.

lavender in calligraphy lettering.....do check out y wrks on instagram @color.rapids

I modified the challenge a wee bit. I didn't use the same paper for the various drawings since I was using (top row, left to right) hard graphite pencils (3H to HB), watercolor pencils, (bottom row, left to right) brush pens and ballpoint pen. These media work best on very different paper textures and moisture absorbing qualities. The second picture shows the object of my study --- and the apparatus I use to hold botanical subjects. "Third hand" tools are very useful and cheap. This one was under $10 and serves my purposes well. Just FYI. (Each drawing/painting was scanned and composited in Photoshop.)

Fineliner drawing

Action 7 x 5 canvas

8 x 8 inch acrylic painting on masonite board. Had fun working on this Marshmallow carrying some good news.

All day all I think about is ramen…

Many beginnings. Beginning 9. You should know this - all waters are connected. * Starting is easy, it's the middle that is often a muddle. And I won't even mention the endings. Here are some beginnings for children stories that flitter through my head. https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-cGf-BSV1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

2020, 2021. Pencil on good drawing paper. About 17 x 23. Will be submitting this to a juried show--local and digital. Whether the pic is chosen or not, I had to follow my goal and "git er done."