Perkins Cove, after a month off

A variety of things kept me from scanning and posting for a whole month, but after six years and three months of regular postings here, I decided taking a little vacation from the scanning/posting side was due.

The main thing is, I never stopped drawing, doodling, stamping, painting, gluing and making.

Tthe start of the Marginal Way in Perkins Cove is in the distance to the left. A gorgeous day in Ogunquit, Maine, at the end of September.

Pencil on 140# paper.

the indoor garden statue

I'm not one to have paraphenalia sitting around in the yard, so I put this gift of a small garden statue in the house. S/he moves around from place to place, reading.

Pencil in a PaperBlanks journal.

that green jungle

So many perspective problems here, but this captures the general layout of the terraced hillside.

Pencil and w/c on 90# paper.

painting from photos

I'm starting an online class in which the instructor posts photos and we paint from them, as practice for travel sketching. Here's a cropped bit of my first assignment, a statue in a cemetary.

Pencil and w/c in on Arches 140# paper.

shades of gray

Charcoal and white pastel on random paper. Just playing.

previous models reappear in a pile

Going for color and energy here.

Pen and w/c in the Fabriano Venezia journal.

the disgusted, bored model

Will you stop staring at me?
W/c pencil on 90# paper.

Appaloosa bells

I dabbed on some acrylic, then drew the bells in ink, shaded it all with pastels. A strange but intriguing effect.

In the new journal volume. I'm getting used to the paper.

writing as texture

This soft journal paper scans as very yellow here. Too much writing shows through, but overall it makes the standard theme slightly more interesting.

table light

Charcoal pencil in the journal. The shadow came out more like a twin.

I Gimped the background to make it slightly different. That hid some of the laid texture.

living room

Trying an interior scene, colors not so accurate, but fun.

Watersoluble fiber tip and w/c on 90# paper.

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.

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.

you've seen this before

Mini drawings, pasted in the journal.

Tom Bow markers on w/c paper.

curled cat

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

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.

big bear tail

Ink pen on watercolor paper.

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!