wagonized

Bye, Typepad.

 

I have moved to Blogger.   My address is still wagonized.com but the blog is now

here.

Going to the typepad blog made any Safari app on iOS crash.    

So this is my 934th and last post on this platform! Bye, Typepad. 

Red pepper

If you ever need a red pepper to look like a (metallic, apparently) tooth, call on me, I am your (wo)man.  I will try color next time.  

 

Paper app & Pencil by Fifty-Three.

 

At the doctor's office

A few stolen minutes in the doctor's waiting room with the Paper app.  

 

Hampton Diner

I can't think of a better exercise for sketching fast than a quick doodle before your food comes at the diner.  To hell with proportions, colors and steady lines.  The goal is to loosen up the hand, let go of perfection, let go of anything decent for that matter, and just sketch.  And if the food hasn't arrived yet, add some color.

Dave's pen and watercolor on Xerox paper. 

Off to the new year

I have been posting more on Tumblr lately than here.  And because I have been test-drawing my new Pencil, I have been using the iPad almost exclusively -- hence all the drawings done on Paper by 53.  

Happy new year to all, and may drawing happen on a daily basis!

Yawn

There, before going to sleep tonight -- a big yawn on the iPad.  

My next purchase is this, by the way.

A few stolen minutes

When you carry a sketchbook around, you welcome a text from the people you are supposed to meet that says "We're running a few minutes late".  Wednesday night, Montclair, NJ.  

Pigma Micron 05 and watercolor in sketchbook.

 

Meeting Paul

I met the disgustingly skillful Paul Heaston early this morning in NYC.  We have known each other's work for years through our respective blogs, Facebook and Flickr, and today we were meeting for the first time.  Seeing his work in real life, flipping through the pages of his sketchbooks was a thrill.  We sketched on the High Line while talking for hours.  As with Liz Steel a year ago, it was nothing short of an exhilarating experience.  

H pencil, Pigma Micron 05 & watercolor in sketchbook.

 

Papa got stitches

A little trip to the ER yesterday yielded some sketchy doodles.  

Pigma 05 and watercolor in sketchbook. 

Running on two cylinders... and a mug of coffee

Not much is happening on this blog these days, as I am drawing almost exclusively for the book.  But here is a quick mug drawn on a diner place mat, because sometimes that's all I can fit in a day of writing and doodling.

Pigma 05 on recycled place mat with Photoshop for whiting out.