Let no page go blank

Cleaning a brush of acrylic paint, then drawing on top just to fill a page.

In the Robert Bateman journal, a last page.

little and big blocks

Stamp pad pressings, stenciling through edge borders, and some pencil. Plus smears to take away the sharpness.

70# hot press paper.

working on shadows

One foot propped on a footstool, the other leg with bent knee. Capturing the shadows before the model moves.

Pencil in the journal, one with the thick, soft Indian paper.

backbend bear

It's not upside down, I drew him this way.

Pen and w/c in the journal.

this never posted

A quick sketch of that corner where Chaucer sits on top of the blue chair--pictured on May 11. Here he's on his window shelf.

I just discovered that this sketch never posted automatically when Blogger went down in May.

Kuretake brush pen, a mid-gray that's water-soluble. In the journal, a small Robert Bateman sketchbook.

you've seen this before

Mini drawings, pasted in the journal.

Tom Bow markers on w/c paper.

a deep sea feeling

On Fabriano w/c postcard paper, acrylic plus some fiddling in Gimp.

green gold collage

Across the spread of a small Hand Book artist journal. Stamping and acrylics

curled cat

He's here a lot. A frequent model and position.

Chaucer up high

He rarely gets up here. I was glad to catch the moment.

basket of bags

A collection of little bags of supplies to throw in as I take off in the morning.

Pencil and w/c in the journal.

pencil cases

Supplies for everyday travel. Pencils, pens, waterbrush.

one leg

Pencil in the journal.

big bear tail

Ink pen on watercolor paper.

Chaucer on one of his perches

For once I managed to catch him on my phone camera when he didn't realize what I was doing.

last days inside

Soon the fig tree can go outside to nest in the woods. He's much happier there!

Pen and w/c in the "Multi-drawing book" sketchbook. Great paper!

Happy Mother's Day

Playing with art supplies, doing as I please all day long, that's a good Mother's Day.

Acrylic background, w/c painted on a stamp, w/c added. On 140# paper.

two blue pots

Another view out a door, not quite accurate beyond the green ivy-covered ground.

W/c in the journal.

Water in the woods

Coming through the woods, I found this perfect little stream and culvert.

Drawn on site, painted later.

backyard landscape

The woods, rock, rhodo, and if you look closely, even a gray squirrel.

W/c and ink in a Robert Bateman sketchbook.

filling a sketchbook page

I liked how the paint flowed and mixed to make a very accurate color like the aged copper bell.

But the rest of the page had plants and a sideways roof.

Pen and w/c in the Robert Bateman sketchbook. I like the 110# paper.

smudgy drawing of a clean mixer

Quick, standing capture of the shape and shadows.

Pencil, in the journal.