wagonized

Corner of my world

Here's a piece of the office/studio where i work most of the time.
Pigma Micron in Moleskine.

Ener aus Berlin

Ener once drew my portrait, and i thought it would be fun to return the favor.
HB pencil on Strathmore paper.

Étienne in Moleskine

I was on a portraits-of-people-with-pen-in-Moleskine kick for a while, and like everything else, it came and went. Yesterday, i was browsing the amazing gallery of French photographer Olivier Roller and saw a bunch of potential pen portraits, starting with this one.
01 Pigma Micron with colored pencils in Moleskine.

Sans roof rack either

I cannot count the times i have got this wrong: i start drawing a wagon and i run out of space, because of poor planning. It seems as though Volvos are always longer than the Moleskine page. This one was no exception. But since i draw with a pen and cannot erase, my solution has been to shorten the Swedish beauty.
Once i colored it, i realized i forgot to add the little "V" logo in the middle of the wheels. I just don't seem to get it right today.
Pen and watercolor in Moleskine.

Jeff's Saab

Jeff's is actually a nice shade of grey. Very 1960s.
Pen and watercolor in watercolor Moleskine.

Front Street, Belvidere

No one outside of New Jersey would believe this, but there are some seriously quaint towns in this state -- the very state that spawned Bon Jovi and Sinatra.
Today i whipped out my little Moleskine during lunch and drew what was in front of me: a funny-shaped building (a Western New Jersey Flatiron of sorts) at the corner of two streets. I am counting on this summer to afford me more opportunities to draw in plein air, and LEARN.

While on the phone...

Do you doodle when you're on the phone? Do you walk around? Pet the cat? Stand still? Lie down? Drive??
I doodle. And since i am on the phone very seldom (the phone is not my favorite mode of communication, to say the least), things like this don't happen too often. This is not much of a post, but it was a busy week end.
Pen on the back of an envelope.

Z's dad's Mini

When one of my students asked me to draw his dad's former Mini Cooper, i gladly obliged :-)
Colored pencils on Bristol.

Nontoxic

It's the end of the school year, and it's time to color code all the envelopes with scented markers. Pen + colored pencils in my sketchbook.

I've got some real estate here in my purse

Students at my school are not allowed to lug a bag around during the day. But oversized purses and small backpacks do pass muster.
While students were taking their final exams, i was walking around the classroom, getting different angles on the purses lying around.
Pen in my sketchbook, with some photoshopped yellow afterwards.