Compared to what it can sometimes be.
It is starting to feel like the end of the school year. My AP students are finishing their journals, and I drew in one of them. I can't believe another batch of them are graduating soon, leaving me with the hope that they have learned at least as much as I have taught them.
Pigma Micron 05 and watercolor in yellow-ish journal.
Our backyard this afternoon. It's about time I have drawn it -- as it sat in a state of renovation for the past couple of summers. Tom built us a garage, a pergola and a back porch -- and now there is talk of an outdoor fireplace.
Pigma Micron 05 + watercolor in sketchbook.
Tonight I tried to draw the disgustingly talented Paul Heaston, whose drawings I have been drooling over for a while.
2B pencil and some of that really neat white pencil that I had bought in Belgium.
I have been driving home from work through farm country for the past five years and have wanted to draw some landscape. Not quite, though, because landscapes bore me to tears -- so rather, some farms. I drive by horse farms that I wish I could do justice. Here is the first one I did. It's a little busy, so I have to learn to refrain from overdoing the drawing.
Pigma Micron 05 in sketchbook.
The Lada Niva, y'all. I might have taken a bit of artistic liberty by coloring it orange, since this model came (at least when my uncle bought one, in the early nineties) only in two colors: red or white. I've always loved the design of that 4x4 and how unapologetically huge it looked on the roads in France when I was a kid. Still love it. Wonder if it comes with bluetooth now.
Pigma Micron 08 (which kept leaking) and watercolor in my new watercolor Moleskine.
Plume/feather, yes, we speak franglais at our house to the point of mixing our vowels. As I was getting dinner ready, Nora was playing with two feathers she had found today. We both sat down and drew a bit before I finished making dinner. The little blood stains at the bottom right are from a little cut I had made on my hand while cooking.
Pilot V5 pen and white pencil on construction paper.
My daughter had a renewed interest in her cheap little recorder today, and when we sat down to do a little bit of drawing at the kitchen table, it was sitting next to us. I had bought this Earthbound ® sketchbook about 6 years ago but only used a couple of pages.
Lately, I have been looking at a lot of Dürer drawings. Learning, always learning.
Pigma Micron 08 with Crayola markers and white crayon.
I have been drawing so much lately, but keeping everything under wraps until it gets published in a few months as part of the book I have been working on. In the meantime, I am posting my iPad doodles and an occasional... lady: a Renault 12, probably mid-seventies, the kind I used to see in my childhood. I used to think it was so damn ugly, and now I marvel at its coolness.
Pigma Micron 08 after a first draft in pencil + watercolor in watercolor Moleskine.
The auditorium of our school during today's faculty meeting. Not much time to worry about the seats.
Paper app for the iPad.
No time to draw -- just a doodle here, stealing a minute or two and ending up with unfinished lines that only I can recognize. Which is OK because I am the only one seeing them in the first place.
This looks finished compared to those. Paper app for the iPad.
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