InkTracks

Drawing and painting, to create a mindful path through my days.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Feel the Warm

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We're cooking, wrapping, unwrapping, enjoying the tree. And packing for a short trip. The cat doesn't know yet that he can't go....
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Shadowed Leaf

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Another kind of brown leaf. From a bush alongside the road.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Mountain Moment

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Doodling in my journal, this time with a tech pen so I can move the ink in all directions (compared to a dip pen). Listening to the coverage...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Dragging the dropper

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Forget brushes and conventional painting tools, how about just dragging the paint on with a stick? In this case, I used the dropper-lid of D...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Movin' down the road

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After I swirl color around and it comes to adding ink, I usually regret (just a little) not planning ahead. After letting the paint dry, I s...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Making mountains

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I love swirling color on, then adding ink to see if I can make shapes. The results never match my hopes, but I still love the potential and ...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Tall doodle bird

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Filling a side of a journal page. I think he's a kind of penguin totem pole. A rare breed.
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Got my Flickr back

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I've switched to the new Blogger template. Easy! And at the bottom of the righthand column, a Flickr Badge of a few drawings and mini-pa...

New journal

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I bought this in an art museum while on a trip months ago and have just made it my new journal volume. I LOVE the paper! Smooth as Bristol p...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Macro crazy

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I never had an easy, fast camera for closeups until this Nikon. So I took it for a walk today. Even asphalt patterns look good in this late ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Plunge into the blue, blue paint

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Pure color is often enough. This evokes sparkling, inviting pools, calling us back to our earliest form. And yes, the salt is there, making ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Season's greetings

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Doodling again, thinking: there's the red/green of the season, the mask we sometimes wear for social events, and yes, the true joy of cr...

Blending in

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Speed bump on the hall rug. Chaucer says, "Cats nap where they need to."
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Monday, December 11, 2006

Doodling in Moleskine again

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Mixed media: dip pen in India ink, w/c pencil and watercolors. Just to play with overlapping and ink on the smoothness of a Moleskine sketch...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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