wagonized

Brushes app for the iPhone

 It's when I try to draw on my iPhone using the Brushes app that I almost wish I had an iPad.  Oh the fun that would be.  My daughter and I have been monkeying with the Brushes app lately and it has forced me to get acquainted with it more.  I had always felt defeated by the whole drawing with the tip of the index part -- and the sheer size of the screen.  But of course that was just an excuse for not experimenting.  

Wake of the flood

I've been gone for days, and all I can come up with is a pair of rubber boots -- I had to put them on to do the laundry in my basement today.  Oh Irene, we're glad you're behind us now.

 

From your point of view

Our daughter is learning the joys of potty training, one of them being sitting there and waiting.  I sat there last night, in the little spot where we put her little potty, to experience her point of view.  A little piece of the kitchen cabinets, the stove, the oven.  Nothing too exciting.  Pigma Micron 08 in my babylogue Moleskine.

 

Return

I had never returned a pair of shoes bought online before.  The box was larger than my scanner so I took a yucky, badly lit picture.  I love drawing on mail packages, even if they end up at some warehouse in Canada, as this one seems to be headed.  Sharpie and Crayola markers.

On a side note, this little blog is undergoing some renovation here and there.  I have changed the banner and am slowly working on the left column.  

 

So i bit my lip

Discovering the amazing, endless amounts of talent out there on Flickr and all those drawing blogs, I get so inspired, so lifted -- sometimes humbled and downright defeated -- but mostly, it keeps me drawing and observing.  And I have to constantly remind myself not to make a bit fuss out of any drawing -- and that the better ones are the unintended ones.  So I had spent some time getting acquainted with the art of Brian Bantog on Flickr and his Leica M6 shots gave me something that I wanted to draw.  I would love to say I drew this one from life but who am I kidding.  Do I have people come over to my house so I can draw them?  Nope.  So I get inspired by other people's shots.  Brian's portraits just fit the bill -- contrast, expression, hmmm.  Love them.  Pilot VBall pen in Moleskine journal -- the kind with the thin pages.  

 

Vitamins and Sketchbook Copic Edition

I got Sketchbook Copic Edition (free app!) from the App Store on my MacBook and tried to draw something with it today, using my Wacom tablet.  It's a strange feeling, drawing on a tablet -- that shows how much "resistance" paper can offer.  Without that familiar and reassuring friction, I was a little lost.  

There was this little liquid vitamin bottle on the table -- and that became my first sketch with Sketchbook Copic Edition.  

 

Tigre et oiseau

The featured little guys this week are "tigre et oiseau", who are never more than a few inches away from each other.  Our daughter Nora takes them everywhere and they seem to have pretty exciting lives.  They kiss and hug, they often end up sitting at a table to eat, and they sometimes get to spend some time with a bear and a dog.  They don't say much to me, but Nora seems to engage in some serious discussions with them.  Wonder what they had to say about that debt ceiling bill.  Pilot pen and colored pencils in Babylogue moleskine.