A painting!

It's been a long time, I know, but honestly- I've been busy with art-related stuff. For example, getting my patoot into a studio space of my own. Woot! In doing so, I haven't been into the workshop for figure drawing lately- so no new drawings. I am, however, working on a painting. Jellyfish. One of my favorite things to see at the aquarium.



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Fresh-baked.

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Faux Friday

Celebrating the long weekend by going to bed early tonight. Woo-hoo.
On the bright side, I finally made it to figure drawing again last night, and had a great evening of sketching. I went with plain charcoal pencils- one soft and one medium.



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Summer

Summer is trouble for me when it comes to get anything accomplished. There's too much going on, too much to see and do, blah blah blah... But I do finally have a couple more drawings (although I haven't been able to make it to the workshop in more than a week now... :-/ )






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Atomic Sketch

L and I went to an Atomic Sketch event at the Evil Olive last night, and for the first time, I sketched too. Two drawings- one I liked, one meh. But, I am so proud of myself for not freaking out and being unable to think of anything to draw. I know. Baby steps though. ;)
Anyway, here's the drawing I liked (I have a thing about rabbits- can you tell?):



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Lazy Saturday

This week was too busy. Haven't had a chance to do much more than a few doodles, what with travel for work and um... work itself.

Music-wise- we've been busy. My favorite show we saw recently had Russian Circles headlining. I only heard of them in a round-about way... We've seen American Draft a few times (who I like a lot too) and went to a show not too long ago at the Empty Bottle. They played with Chord and Pelican. We didn't stay for Pelican, who headlined that one, but I was curious and set up a Pandora channel based on them. Russian Circles showed up on that a lot, and boy, excellent music!
So when I saw that they were going to be playing at the Bottom Lounge, I decided to get us tickets. Great show- they really get into the music, and the music itself is terrific. It's post-rock, post-metal, all instrumental. Very driving but almost classical in the- um, I don't know what it's called- I want to say the storyline of the pieces, maybe the melody? The progression? Whatever. I'd highly encourage anyone who enjoys rock, metal and/or classical to give their music a listen. My favorite song thus far is "Death Rides a Horse."

Ali don't read this post! I mean it!

I'm way behind. I didn't realize it'd been so long since I checked in here. And I only have one sketch at my fingertips at the moment, hence the title of this post. It's something I'm doing for my sister Ali, but I want it to be a surprise. Ali- you'd better not be reading this!





So, I used this photo also to "sell" a service for an auction we did for charity at the office. I said I'd do a charcoal or graphite drawing on archival paper from a photo for the highest bidder- with the caveat that it shouldn't be a photo of a marching band, or a class reunion photo of the whole class... Anywho, this work in progress is what I gave as an example.
That's my nephew- you might have heard of him before, "The Cutest Little Boy Ever in the History of the World." He's accompanied by my brother-in-law, who's not too shabby himself. ;-) The problem- I like how the drawing is going, but I started it just as a sketch on plain drawing paper. So I don't know- should I redo it on better paper, or keep on with it and accept it's going to age faster? Meh.