Matisse the Master

Drawing the photo on the cover the the book by Hilary Spurling.

Liquid ink pen on typing paper.

Selfie practice

My current goal in selfie drawing--to give myself level eyes. I think they're level in reality, but seldom in my drawings.

Prismacolor pencil on random laid paper.

a drawn facsimile

Attempting a drawn version.

On Aquabee Superdeluxe paper.

a sunflower for a native Kansan

This was a wonderful gift. Having grown up in Kansas, a sunflower has special significance somehow. Love the glowing yellow!

smeary pencil

Idly messy, capturing more as he actually stayed still.

Pencil on Aquabee Superdeluxe.

recipe for crunchy eggplant stocks

Watching Dr. Who (David Tennant years) and enjoying my yummy new snack, crunchy eggplant sticks. Creamy and crunchy at the same time.

drawing what's in front of me

Colored pencil on Aquabee Superdeluxe.

I draw little things and paste them into the journal.

Practicing the bear

Drawing, watching a movie, recording the moment.

Pen on Aquabee Sketchbook paper

All that hair!

Clipped from an Aquabee Superdeluxe sketchbook and pasted into the journal.

Pencil, duh.

Junior Fritz Jacquet's tube faces

On thisiscolossal.com amazing artworks are posted. Sorry for no direct link today, the computer is fighting me.

These are made from toilet paper tubes, squished by Junior Fritz Jacquet into expressive faces. Check him out.

Pencil in the PPP journal

use it or it really IS wasted

Afraid to waste paint? Leave it in the tube to dry or leak or harden.

Or USE it with a brush and surface. Something good will come out, even if it's just in the joy of splashing.

Rotring Tikky Graphic pens

These flow so well! Never a skip, a hestitation. This is a .01, which is larger than other pens of that size.

Doodling int he smooth paper journal.

Picasso quote

Dust is too mild a word. How about chaos, or pain, or stress or burden . . . those seem more accurate to what making art means to me.

red bunnies

Strathmore drawing paper pasted into the journal. One nose escaped.

hatched cat, learning from Andrea Joseph

Inspired by Andrea Joseph, from Sketchbook Skool. I'm finally getting the hang of hatching

Pitt S marker on Aquabee Superdeluxe

The best can opener

Never fails, good in a power outage, doesn't take up counter space.

Bic Cristal pen on Aquabee Superdeluxe paper.

flower doodle

Pen in the Peter Pauper Press journal

rugged cowboy

This is actually a published writer, whose picture was in the Globe.

Maybe he's a cowboy, too.

Ballpoint pen on Aquabee Superdeluxe paper.

180-degree paws

He had one front paw pointing west and the other pointing east.

An interesting, different shape for a cat pose.

Colored pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.

Green Lizzie

Green ballpoint in the PPP journal. A lot of writing shows through from the back.

Blue Jay

From 2 photos, overlapped.

Colored pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.