pen and ink

#thankyoufrontliners during #covid19 pandemic

Right after lunch. Drawn in a music notebook.

" Deep sleep is not absence of awareness, it is rather awareness of absence ( i. e. absence of mind and body ) "

Drawn in a music notebook I bought before the quarantine. I miss seeing people walking down my street.

Hand and colour study. This was back when I just bought my whole 72 set Prisma Colour and I wanted to practice with it.

Some favourite quotes.

I had a spare 45 min after an errand and wanted to see the De Young. I wasn't planning on it, so I didn't have a jacket or hat to protect from the cold wind and had to draw fast.

Quick ink illustration

Pen on paper

a piece i did awhile back in pen and ink

Fromthe collection called The Wimsical Series 20 x 30 cm www.olgastamatiou.com

Old drawing that I did few years ago

Magnolias are spring harbingers in our garden, as well as our annual ornamental cherry display. Star magnolias are over, tulip magnolias are in full swing, and the occasional Southern magnolia is starting. Perhaps I should have done this with a gouache paint, but I used colored pencils. Oh well. Outlined after with various sizes of Pigma Micron pens. Our garden: www.edgewoodgarden.com

My hammock waiting for the new tree leaves to fill in the shade. Yes, there is an exercise ball my son brought out to the garden.

Tanya Reynolds as Lily Iglehart in the lovely show Sex Education

" The spring is here, the fruit is not yet come but the flower is a promise and a possibility "

Another one of Arlo!

from the collection called The Wimiscial Series 20 x30 cm www.olgastamatiou.com

Sketching my succulent plant in great detail

This is one of my favourite artists, Arlo Parks. I‘ve started up with my portraits again since social distancing, and she was the first one waiting in the queue since the summer  :)

my pen and ink over graphite outlines of my take of the goddess pasithea, goddess of relaxation.