missing person report

someone deleted dad's foreign woman sketch, and all her comments!?

these are sketches

Well, one looks semi-decent this week. Incidentally, it was not from the usual spot. Tracy had to be at school early, so I had a few extra time units. Rushing is perhaps a weakness for me. Sorry I didn't make it to the challenge, but if these are all "out my car window" does that count?

KEEPING AT IT CHALLENGE - "Out My Window"

Like Dustin's view from his study, let's all draw a view from our window. Make it your home. Your street. You'll be glad in a couple of years to have the history. Make it as detailed or as simple as you wish. Do a bunch. A bunch from the same window, a bunch from other windows. And since this is nearly mid-week and is, I think, quite challenging, let's set our posting date a week from Saturday, March 7. "Window Saturday." Meanwhile, keep posting your daily keepings at it. The good, the bad, and the uglies. Those are your opinions. They change over time. They move up the scale.

Not keepin' at it.....low battery maybe?

the drawing on the left was started around 4pm, and within the 10 mins that i was sketching it, the sun set and the shadow changed on me.

the other is the view from the office window in the school on the second floor.

i think i might need to do a larger drawing to get motivated to do some sketches again...or i just need some sleep. I have been burning the candle at both ends lately.

KEEPING AT IT - TRYIN' TO WITH A CAN, A KIWI, & A ZEBRA

In my own attempts to "keep at it" I have come to a slump. Lack of zeal, same old stuff, not improving, worse if anything. So I thought I'd open a window for some fresh air. Different paper, different sticks--smooth copy paper and my Hobby Lobby Copic and Prismacolor sketching pens. I'm interested here mostly in tones. I'm going to go try and find a voice for this stuff--before they dry up in my desk. The bottom one is with pencil, the top one ink.

gleanin' like ruth, nuthin but the truth

"exercise all the control of which you are capable over each individual stroke"
Theo Kautzky

FF Phone & Gumballs

Waiting for Mom who went to wash her hands. She came back fast, so I did have to ask her to wait.

John Torreano says, "By defining your overlaps and not overemphasizing the intersection of shapes, you will see how volumetric form can be created without "modeling" the shape with shading." Intriguing idea. I like to try for that.