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.