wagonized

Late dog

Another commissioned drawing finished tonight.  I think dogs are my favorite subjects to draw.  2B "fat" Cretacolor graphite on Canson paper.

 

Smiles

I recently finished a commissioned drawing based on several pictures I got via e-mail.  2B pencil on 9x12 Canson paper.

 

Cartier-Bresson was in Iran

I have been searching for subjects to draw with a pencil, to get back in the pencil groove a bit.  My husband's classroom is always an excellent source of photographs -- so I borrowed a book by Cartier-Bresson.  I came upon a photograph of army men in Iran back in 1950 and one caught by eye.  So that's what I've been drawing for the past couple of evenings. Except I got tired and didn't quite finish.  #2 pencil on Xerox paper.

 

The Secret Garden

I am pretty proud to be, once again, part of the crew of people working on our school spring musical.  Oh, the talent of these kids!  Here's the official poster, which I finished earlier this week.  3B pencil and Photoshop for the dash of green :-) 

 

The stache

I had not drawn a face with a pencil in a while -- and again Flickr provided me with a perfect subject.  A man whose name I don't know, just a great smile, a great nose, a great mustache, great hair (though you have noticed I carefully avoided drawing too much of that).  B & HB pencils on all-purpose Xerox paper.  

 

Grappling

This is just an excerpt of a drawing I am making for the parents of a former student who just passed away.  She was a strikingly beautiful person and I am struggling to convey that with my graphite.  

Little red riding hood

This started last Tuesday.  One of my students had opened a magazine and out popped a photo of Little Red Riding Hood -- the new movie that was just made.  Or is it being made?  I saw the fabric on the photo and wanted to know if I could render it on paper.  When it came out like a bunch of dough after two days of off-and-on drawing, I asked my husband Tom why my drawings don't come out like Michelangelo's.  Ha.  As usual, he gave me an honest answer: "you need to show more texture in your fabric".  

#2 Pencil on photocopy paper. 

Ellipses

More ellipses, more reasons to feel blah about a drawing and not finish.  And still post it.  B pencil in sketchbook.

 

"D'oh she is"

A quick sketch of our daughter Nora after a picture I took today with my iPhone.  H pencil on sketch paper.

 

Bye, Merrells.

I am about to retire two pairs of shoes that I have worn, respectively, for 12 and 10 years.  I have finally decided they were both worn enough.  I just bought their replacement (a pair of hiking shoes), and I feel it is time to let go of my old New Balance and my old Merrells.  I will have a difficult time relinquishing the comfort I have felt for a whole decade in my ugly Merrells, the ones that got me the following remark on two separate occasions (years apart, even), by two different people, in two different countries: "Are you really going to wear these?".  But I loved (still do) that stitch in the middle and the fact I could just slip them on without having to untie the laces.  Great, great shoes.  3B pencil on Bristol paper.