The short answer is, “The paper made me do it.” It is oblong (approximately 5×8 inches). I had to fit my features within this constraint. I have also started wading into my new book, Paul Klee: Irony at Work, by Angela Lampe, Michael Baumgartner. There are a series of portraits at the beginning that captured my […]
I found myself without a pencil (again) today. I like drawing with a pen these days. It is much less forgiving than drawing with an erasable implement but the pen shows each and every stroke. The collection of slashes and strokes give the resulting sketch directness. The ‘post production’ phase of a pencil drawing may […]
Some say creativity ebbs and flows. For me, it’s no fun when it is at low tide. Today’s sketch is a self portrait. Instead of looking in a mirror, I used my phone camera. I snapped a couple of pictures of myself. They were backwards, when I looked at them later. The lighting was good […]
I had another opportunity for a lunch break at work. I ate in the car. Here is my lunchtime sketch.
I’m spending more time at work these days. Getting some sketching practice in. The plastic sandwich bag is on top of the paper lunch bag. It was hard to get the bright highlights that distinguish the shiny plastic from the matte paper.
This is a pen and ink sketch of a sleepy woman. I blended in some graphite.
This is a pencil sketch of my new cap. I composed an abstract portrait of me wearing it, a few days ago.
The photo-edited picture is a much better representation of the image my brain produced the other night.
I didn’t make any new year’s resolutions for 2018. So far this year I’ve been doing a little of this, a little of that, art-wise. Today I revisited my pen and ink days to sketch ‘Jonathan’, the backpack my daughter gave me. It is a really nice, fabric pack.
I was very impressed by the construction of diagonal numbers (of Georg Cantor) as described in one of the books I am reading: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Decimal representations of fractions were printed in a list, one below the next, with their decimal places aligned. The diagonal number’s digit are made […]
