wagonized

Faculty lecture

Here's our friend Todd paying attention to the nth PowerPoint slide during today's faculty lecture. Pigma Micron 08 in sketchbook.

 

Jon

Third so far in my little "students" series: Jon.  When I snapped the picture, he made this funny "uh?" face and we decided to take another shot.  But the first one is the one I preferred.  B pencil on sketch paper.  

 

A hand for Christmas

I have made Christmas cards for the past three or four years around the car theme. But this year, I would like to include our daughter Nora instead of an old Saab!  I have been toying with the idea of a hand drawing, so I started a quick draft last night with a pen.  I would like the final product to be done in pencil, but I needed to "get a feel" for that hand first.  So far, meh. But hopefully the pencil will yield better results.  

 

We still have a dining room

Somewhere under this mess, we still have a dining room.  I drew the "fence" (the ugly metal contraption that serves as a protection from the wood-burning stove) last, as if to deny its existence until the last minute -- hoping I wouldn't have to draw it.  But I had to.  If I was going to draw the mess on the dining room table, I had to also be straight forward about the wood-burning stove "fence".  Ugh.  Meanwhile, the wood-burning stove itself didn't make it in the drawing.  Pigma Micron 08 in sketchbook.

 

Cumulus

I am trying to make time in the day to sit down and draw what's in front of me again.  I'm slowly getting back into believing that I can -- and that process takes longer than fitting in a good pair of snug jeans after delivering a baby. 

When I was pregnant, one of my apprehensions was to never be able to wear my favorite jeans again, but as my mom had predicted, I was back in them within a couple of weeks of giving birth.  The crunches of yesteryear had paid off. 

 

À l'eau les comptines!

There are little piles of everything in the house.  Last night I saw this on my desk -- a foam book, "Il Était Un Petit Navire" bath book, and who knows what else in between.  

 

Anne

Following the teachings of Michael Nobbs, I try to get things accomplished in 20-minute increments.  Sometimes it means only starting a drawing and sometimes completing one within that time frame.  So it makes me draw faster -- which is a feat, because I am slow.  This is my sister Anne. 0.7mm B mecanical pencil (a new Pentel that I am starting to love) on sketch paper.