InkTracks

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

Saturday, March 31, 2007

making your own mini paint tins

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I always have watercolors with me, with a variety of waterbrushes and pens. In the metal tins I put empty half-pans (stuck down with double-...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Mailbox meaning

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Painting with Crystal yesterday, discussing what I'd read about recurring symbols appearing on one's art. One artist said her symbol...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

quick cat

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I managed to catch this pose before sound from the street woke him. Nothing like cat models to teach speed sketching! (Took about 6 minutes,...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

bile-colored tile

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I stayed at a convention center last week and had to draw the bathroom sink. See the nose and the eyes and the huge mouth? And even a teeny ...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Ghoulish floating head

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I found a photo of this actor, Chris Lee, in a book and thought he'd make a perfect horror-film star. Maybe he is, I don't know. The...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Sturdy and solid

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One of my standby drawing models. He never twitches and even waits if I go off to answer the phone or make tea. One might say it's a rat...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Alphabet Art

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Fun with stencils, stamps, and spatters. Happy Spring! May all your puzzles be solvable. Mixed media on Bristol paper.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

penciled in

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This time Chaucer stayed still in his sleep and napped long enough for me to capture his parts. Pencil and wash on journal paper. The scan w...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

The essential egg

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Someone on the web has a project of taking a picture of every meal he eats in 2007. I'm only going for part of one breakfast. When we we...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Anti-Art

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Keri Smith has a new project and website called Wreck This Journal . It's a great idea for combatting judgmental perfectionism and the i...
Saturday, March 17, 2007

Just as more snow came

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There's been knitting lately. We got ten inches of snow last night, so I can wear these before they're put away for Spring. My own p...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Playing

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This was originally a monoprint attempt using old, grainy, cheap acrylics, and turned into a cutout of color blobs (just to salvage somethin...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Two green backgrounds

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Water color background, green acrylic brush swathes, then ink drawing. Just to play.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Rorschach art

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Dribbles of acrylic on plastic, smashed with paper, cut out, pasted, pastel background added. Now I think it's a picture of an animal wi...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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