tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694335820322334202024-03-08T23:18:01.672-08:00MY ART JOURNAL ART JOURNAL: Any blank book I fill with my drawings.Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.comBlogger2032125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-82404458956856848852017-11-04T20:18:00.003-07:002017-11-04T20:21:59.217-07:00After a very long break, I am back...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Well if you can see this you know I have been gone for months, and this is just a snippet of my life since I was last here.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I still draw at Starbucks and Barnes & Noble Café most days of the week.</span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I am fully retired now so my days are spent drawing, quilting, volunteering ... I volunteer in my grand daughter's art class, which is just an awesome experience for me.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I still draw for Sktchy, but not as regularly I had been doing:</span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And my latest adventure is working with a personal trainer in a gym, just she and I, to strengthen my body and learn and improve balance. I've had seven 45 minutes sessions over October and early November, going twice a week, and I love it. There were moments early on when I asked myself what I was doing, was I nuts? but now I look forward to my sessions and I am starting to see improvements.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I'm keeping a sketchbook just for these sessions to record my progress.</span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I'm now lifting eight pounds and pulling 40!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I draw in other public places as well.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Since March I have completed five quilts for all five grandchildren and they all love them. Here are the two most recently gifted.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"> And this is the one (below) I am currently working on. I'm really happy that I've gotten back into working with fabrics. It feels so creative and yummy to the touch.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">So I hope this finds you all well. It took me a few minutes to remember how to even do a blog post. Really, it's amazing what one can forget when they aren't doing it regularly.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Take care and enjoy your creative lives!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you comments should you feel like leaving any. </span></strong></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-7032162704220687772017-08-04T22:14:00.001-07:002017-08-04T22:14:53.828-07:00Four More Work Weeks to Full Retirement, In the Meantime ... Semi retirement continues. I work parts of three days a week, seeing clients in my counseling practice. I love my work, and I used to joke I'd die in my chair. But finally decided not to let that happen. (I hope it won't happen in the next four weeks! I feel fine!) Instead I've been looking around to add to my already very arty life for new things to do.<br />
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I have a call into my grandkids (age 12) art teacher at their school. I want to volunteer in her class starting once a month and maybe more often ... it's a 45 minute drive from my home. But it would include a day with grandkids, probably taking them to their soccer games on the day(s) I am there and having dinner with them afterwards at my daughters home.<br />
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I also talked to a woman at the local knit shop (in Winters, CA) and she told me they meet on Mondays to make quilts for charity. That sounded like a good way to be with like minded people.<br />
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Of course I will continue drawing at Starbucks and Barnes & Noble. And my Sktchy portraits at home.<br />
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Speaking of which here's one for you. <br />
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A few Sundays ago we went to Sacramento, CA to the theater. I hadn't been in a very long time. I have a very talented cousin named Donald Corren, who lives and preforms in New York City and his show, On The Town, came to our area so we went. It was a fun musical and I drew these two young women who were also waiting in the on call area for their tickets before show time.<br />
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This gentleman was fun to draw on the Sktchy App. <br />
I'm enjoying playing with my Copic markers experimenting with different skin tones. He let me know he was pleased with the results.<br />
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These women were at Starbucks. I'm not sure what they are discussing. But I am guessing they are all retired too as it was a work day. Or maybe not. Maybe just on a lunch break.<br />
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This next one was a very fun experience at Starbucks. This guy sat across from me while I was drawing people behind him. He motioned with his head and eyes as if to day: "Are you going to draw me next?"<br />
So I did. He was very occupied on his cell phone and I doubt was much aware that he was actually being drawn. But I showed it to him afterwards and he said he loved it. He asked to take a photo of it. But he wanted to know why his head looked like a potato. I said it was just my wonky style. He sent a copy to his daughter. We had a nice conversation and he signed the drawing for me too.<br />
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Meanwhile back at home on my Sktchy App. on my iPhone. This guys wife made him this hat and I was very pleased, as was he, at how well I could replicate it.<br />
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I loved her wonderfully fun smile.<br />
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Here are some women talking about me as I draw them ...<br />
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And another Sktchy woman. <br />
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Okay, time to brag. Sktchy gives out "Picks" and I have had a few. This is my latest! It feels very nice to have one's art chosen in this way. It's the equivalent of finding a blue ribbon on your drawing at the art gallery or county fair! <br />
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I have started top sewing free motion style on the grandson's monster quilt. My next door neighbor lent me one of her sewing machines that is a little larger than mine making the quilt easier to sew on at this stage. I am so appreciative of her generosity. The free motion sewing seems much more user friendly on her machine too.<br />
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Here are more examples of what it's like to draw on a quilt which in turns Quilts it.</div>
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I like finding photos to draw in Sktchy that have interesting facial expressions. I am sure you will agree with me that she fills that bill just perfectly.</div>
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Today I drew all six of the young women sitting across from me at Starbucks. I am pretty sure they knew I was drawing them, but none of them came to ask or check it out. Just as well, as when they left it was still in black and white and didn't have the life color gives it yet.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">On another note I am back to making vegan, non-dairy N'ice Cream</span></strong>. That bowl full below on the book is what I ate today. Very creamy and very delicious. <br />
I took a little from a few different recipes so if you want to try this at home you pop in a food processor or good blender the following:<br />
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1 13.5 oz. can of organic coconut milk. Put in the refrigerator the day before and then only use the solid creamy part.<br />
2 cups of frozen organic strawberries<br />
1 frozen banana (optional)<br />
3-4 Teaspoons of organic maple syrup for sweetener<br />
(I used 3, I could have used less as the fruit is already sweet to my taste)<br />
1 Tbsp. of nut butter (also optional)<br />
I added: A handful of almonds, and 2 squares of dark chocolate from a bar of Ghirardelli Raspberry Chocolate. I like a little chocolate and crunch in my N'ice Cream.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Have a very Creative WEEK and thanks for coming by. I appreciate your comments as they inspire me to keep drawing.</span></strong></div>
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Four more weeks till I am fully retired. Oh, did I already say that? :-)</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-2188299376894806422017-07-24T19:07:00.000-07:002017-07-24T19:07:20.161-07:00I"m BackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkI know I've been away from my blog for about a month. Here are some Sktchy Folks I drew while not blogging ...<br />
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I also draw my husband at Barnes & Noble Café! </div>
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And other folks there too.<br />
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I loaded these drawings a while ago, a month ago? But never posted them. Now I will. I've gotten busy in other areas of my life and blogging has definitely taken a back seat. For one I have decided to retire from my 36 year career as a counselor (ten years as a Biofeedback counselor/trainer and 26 years as a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist). It's been a wonderful time in my life and the decision to stop has been an emotional one, with lots of changing of my mind over the past two plus years.</div>
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I've also made a return to quilting. I am on #5. My eldest grandson has traveled extensively and brought home fabrics from many different countries. He asked me if I could turn them into a quilt for him and that has become quite the project. <br />
It's a large one so it is taking a slow paced but steady paced job.<br />
I plan to continue working in fabric art again too.<br />
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And I'll continue to meet new people whereever I go. I'm excited to see what new adventures open up for me as I step through this door to this new part of my life.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I found some<span style="background-color: yellow;"> neon markers</span> at the thrift store and went crazy over using the yellow one! Glad there were a lot of blonds out this week where I was drawing!</span></strong></div>
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<strong>And they each had their story to tell ...</strong><br />
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<strong>These ladies below were more in the grey haired realm (as am I) so I stuck to water soluble Woody Stabilo crayons and water brush. Perhaps some Tom Bow markers as well.</strong> <br />
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<strong>My online friend, Darlene Campbell, challenged me to get more creative from my imagination, so I added lines (actually one line was a mistake, which I used to create more lines like water and added fish from my imagination. The people were in this pose on the SKTCHY APP. See what I mean by <br />THERE ARE NO MISTAKES IN ART?</strong></div>
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<strong>and more Sktchy folks ...</strong><br />
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<strong>... and more opportunities to use that Yellow Neon Marker again!!!</strong><br />
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<strong>And three more Sktchy People begging to be drawn. I love this nightly ritual of drawing portraits from photos people post there. I'm very pleased with all of these.</strong></div>
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<strong>It was a special week this week. It was <span style="font-size: large;">Grandparents Day</span> at our middle grandchildren's school. (we have five, these are the twins who are in 7th grade now) The older young woman in the top photo is their cousin, Abbie, who was visiting from Boston and joined us at the school. I drew her and our grandson, Aaron, later in the evening at their home. I drew Yael too, but neglected to upload that drawing.</strong><br />
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<strong>Later in the week I did my now ritual drawings at Starbucks, and gave them their stories.</strong></div>
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<strong>These are really fun to draw. I love all the different expressions I find there.</strong></div>
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<strong>On Monday there were long lines at Starbucks ...</strong><br />
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<strong> ... and people on technology per usual.</strong><br />
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<strong>On Thursday we go to Barnes & Noble Café where I find great sales and wonderful people to draw, some for the first time like these two ...</strong><br />
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<strong>and some who I have drawn numerous times like these three: </strong></div>
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<strong>The gal on the far right had new highlights in her hair!</strong></div>
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<strong>And tonight there was just time for one more sktchy portrait before I loaded my art from the week for you to see.</strong><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-8463660043698878022017-05-18T18:50:00.000-07:002017-05-18T18:50:32.117-07:00Artists Love Attention! <strong>Hi, </strong><br />
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<strong>Welcome back or welcome for the first time, which ever the case, I'm glad to welcome you to my blog. </strong><br />
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<strong>I continue to draw every day, and evening; I am no longer posting every single drawing I do, but almost. I also post on Facebook and in several artist's FB groups such as Sketchbook Skool, Everyday Matters, Artist's Journal Workshop, Urban Sketchers (group), Sketchbookers Society and I Love Creative Lettering. Oh, and Sketchbook Skool: A Drawing a Day, and on the Sktchy App on my iPhone.</strong><br />
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<strong>So my art gets seen by many. I love the attention and responses it receives. I am sure every artist likes to have their work appreciated. And it's fun to share, to get inspiration from other artists, encouragement, all of which keeps me drawing.</strong><br />
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<strong>Here we were last Thursday at Barnes & Noble Café. Interesting that I drew a woman with good hair last week and again this week there (see one of the last drawings on this thread)</strong><br />
<strong>I guess being a thin haired person I am drawn to others with full heads of luscious hair. A little green with envy perhaps.</strong><br />
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<strong>I imagined these women as being best friends since childhood or maybe sisters even:</strong><br />
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<strong>This is Lynne, a woman I met on line, who draws in urban environments like I do. She's also on Sktchy so I drew her portrait there this week.</strong><br />
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<strong>These gals were all at Starbucks ... where I go to draw most of the days of the week.</strong><br />
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<strong>I really enjoyed drawing Jonathan from Sktchy too. And the background was great fun as well.</strong><br />
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<strong>Haylee saw my art on Sktchy and asked me to draw her so I did. I don't know that she's seen it yet.</strong></div>
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<strong>I finished another Travelers Pentalic art journal this week. That always feels like such an accomplishment, although I am finishing up about one a month or darn close to it.</strong><br />
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<strong>This was a good day in another way too. A woman sitting next to me at a table big enough for four saw me drawing and said something about it. I asked if she wanted to see more and she nodded affirmatively, so I handed her my almost finished sketchbook. She sat and looked at every single drawing (that way over 100 pages) and she smiled and laughed her way through it, stopped to compliment me over and over again. Needless to say, it was a very enjoyable experience for me. </strong><br />
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<strong>Sktchy folks are all about originality in posting interesting photos of themselves for others to draw. I like to find the ones with a bit of a challenge.</strong><br />
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<strong>She liked it. So did a lot of other people. Many said they saw themselves in this one.</strong></div>
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<strong>Bam-Bam says he's an artist from California (like I am) ... I wonder if I'll meet him one day?</strong><br />
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<strong>See, here is the second woman, second week in a row at Barnes & Noble Café with a very full head of hair. If only!</strong></div>
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<strong>And this guy with his tattooed arms that kept changing positions. I got two of them.</strong></div>
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<strong>I drew these guys yesterday at Starbucks. This fellow is an artist too (on the left) with his service dog.</strong><br />
<strong>He wasn't doing any art today, just talking to the guy with the big bushy beard.</strong><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-12755341424245007022017-05-11T20:21:00.000-07:002017-05-11T20:21:18.364-07:00Welcome to My Week in Drawing<br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">A work in black ink on white paper. In fact it is a Papermate pen.</span></strong><br />
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<strong>And I continue to draw at Starbucks.</strong> <strong>Tom Bow markers were my tool of choice.</strong></div>
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<strong>I used Copic Markers and Ink to draw Nicole. She is from Sktchy App as are most of my portraits.</strong></div>
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<strong>This was a memorable day when two separate people at the same Starbucks, one a customer and one an employee, stopped by my table to tell me they liked my drawings.</strong></div>
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<strong>Sktchy guy using Copic Markers.</strong></div>
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<strong>I drew Sally Yates while watching her testify on TV.</strong></div>
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<strong>J. Travis is another Sktchy subject. I am so grateful to these folks who allow us to draw them.</strong><br />
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<strong>You can see a theme here of my mixture of drawing portraits and drawing from life at Starbucks.</strong></div>
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<strong>I chose not to add water this time.</strong></div>
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<strong>We went out to dinner last Friday night at a friends house and I drew my husband playing guitar and singing. I also drew two of the other male guests, but have decided not to post everything I draw. </strong></div>
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<strong> It was a fun night.</strong></div>
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<strong>This fellow had an interesting shaped head. He liked my rendition of him too. </strong></div>
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<strong>Always nice to hear.</strong></div>
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<strong>Kate liked her portrait too.</strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And another true story from a Sktchy photo. Again drawn just using an ink pen.</span></strong></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-313450494937735132017-05-01T19:27:00.001-07:002017-05-01T19:27:55.974-07:00#Sktchy30 Days 1-30<br />
<strong>I skipped two weeks of blogging, too busy (and forgetful) with other things.</strong><br />
<strong>I finished Sktchy30 drawing a portrait and night for 30 nights. They could have been done in the daytime, but that's when I draw in coffee houses like Starbucks and Barnes & Noble Café.</strong><br />
<strong>I have lots of those, but none posted today. Will chose the best of them for another post another week. I may have posted some of these earlier in April, but I wanted a place <em><span style="font-size: large;">to put them all</span></em></strong> <strong>together. So if you are a weekly visitor scroll down until you find the ones you haven't yet seen, or enjoy them all again.</strong><br />
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<strong>I did a few Free Draws. This one is our eldest grandson.</strong></div>
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<strong>My first of two drawings of Paul this month.</strong> </div>
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<strong> This is my second drawing of Paul this month. In the first he is wearing the red Fez.</strong></div>
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<strong>And last but not least, Danica, who I drew last night, on April 30th. I will continue drawing portraits from Sktchy, and I will continue drawing in my urban sketching journals as well. I hope you enjoyed your visit today and will return again to see more.</strong><br />
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<strong>Some of you know I have been the Co. Admin. of the blog <span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-size: large;">Paper, Paint, Pencils & Pens</span> for several years, a blog where other artists can join in drawing to a theme. I have decided to drop out as Admin. and have turned over the running of that Blog and ownership to<span style="color: orange;"> Beverly Baird.</span> I hope you will still go there whether or not it continues to show up on Paint Party Friday's list and support all the artists there. Thank you for your support in the past when it was my blog I shared with <span style="color: orange;">Ann Hyde.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Today we went to Barnes & Noble Café where I drew patrons. This lady was with a guy, but he kept getting up and leaving and coming back and leaving and finally they left together. Just so you know.</span></strong></div>
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<strong>She came in and ate a nice little piece of cake with her coffee and then got up and left.</strong></div>
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<strong>My husband was my next victim (or model) as he sat across the room from me drinking his coffee and reading the newspaper. I caught the guy above him too.</strong></div>
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<strong>This couple had the honor of being the last drawing in the art journal I started in March and finished on Wednesday. April, 12, 2017. Took just a bit over one month to fill it.</strong><br />
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<strong>This was a day I chose a bag of markers and crayons from my bag to use different that my usual tools. Something for variety sake.</strong></div>
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<strong>Another day, another Starbucks. Long lines, oh yes, it was on Sunday last.</strong></div>
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<strong>These guys were there too. When they got done they shook hands in a sort of knocking knuckles thing and each turned his hat the opposite direction. Not at all sure it that was significant of anything, or if it was totally unconscious acts on both of their parts. Your guess is as good as mine.</strong><br />
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<strong>And then there are the Sktchy portraits I am doing one a night. The challenge is Sktchy30, one a day for each day in April. But I am sure I will continue it.</strong> <br />
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<strong>We are drawing to themes. This one was the use of a quote.</strong> </div>
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<strong>This one was "Storytelling".</strong></div>
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<strong>This one was using a medium I don't generally use. So I chose water soluble pencils and pastel crayons, which I had not used in a very long time.</strong></div>
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<strong>The theme here was "frustration". I thought this guy was a teenager and we all know how frustrating that can be. However, he later told me he isn't one. He looked very young in his photo.</strong></div>
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<strong>Do you recognize her? She's me. Theme was "Selfie". I did three.</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>And my (DRUM ROLL) 200th portrait done this evening is to the them of a cause that matters to me. I chose Black Lives Matter!</strong></span></div>
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<strong>And last but not least the Garden ladies, or so I dubbed them. They were really enjoying themselves and me drawing them.</strong><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-3650982118931908502017-04-06T19:19:00.001-07:002017-04-06T19:19:34.321-07:00Welcome to My Weeks Worth of Drawings<div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Starting with the most recent, I drew today at the Napa Deli where we eat lunch often on Thursdays.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I am in a challenge with Sktchy to draw every day in April called Sktchy30 and today, day 6, the idea was to draw minimally. Other people obscured my full view of this couple so I literally drew just what I could see. Thus my minimal drawing.</span></strong></div>
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<strong>Earlier in the day we were at the Barnes & Noble Café where I drew this woman with her back to me. She had lovely braids and/or extensions in black and gold in her hair. I chose not to use a gold color as I feared it would get muddied by the black ink. So you must imagine them.</strong><br />
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<strong>You know I make up stories for my people I draw. However, the fellow on the right did in fact have on polka dot tights and high pink rubber rain boots that matched his pink headset. I have no idea what the woman is fantasizing.</strong> <br />
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<strong>These two women rarely miss a Thursday at this café, always doing something on their duel laptops, talk a while and then get down to work. They MUST know I am drawing them, but they've yet to ask</strong>.<br />
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<strong>Meanwhile, back a few days at Starbucks where one is never alone even if they are.</strong></div>
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<strong>This young fellow was really dressed up and I loved that I had a bright turquoise marker pen to color his shirt. It was that bright!</strong></div>
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<strong>I was enjoying for some weird reason drawing guys sitting with legs spread! It's what they do.</strong></div>
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<strong>I continue to enjoy watching my own growth and development with the Sktchy App Portraits from photos. I love Emma Rose's eyes!!!</strong></div>
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<strong>She had lovely long braids that were very meditative to draw.</strong></div>
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<strong>The Sktchy prompt was "Color" so I gave her lots of colors!</strong></div>
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<strong>And this one done last night had a black background which was perfect for a night sky. </strong><br />
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<strong>I am so enjoying all this drawing. My garden is growing too. I am staying nice and busy enjoying life, and I hope you are too. </strong><br />
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<strong>Thanks for coming by. Your comments and encouragement keeps me drawing!</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">This week I will start by sharing four Sktchy Portraits from the Sktchy App. I do these relaxed in my recliner at night, often while watching TV. Or the TV is on in the background, as I do pay full attention to my art journal as I am drawing. It's very meditative for me.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">This is "Big Al", a California artist, who said he loved what I did with his photo.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I'm really having fun with backgrounds as you can see ...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And I love, love, love focusing on fabrics like the folds in her head scarf.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say the background on this purple/pink/redhead's photo was a true challenge and one I enjoyed immensely.</span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Then during the mornings of my week I have time to stop in coffee shops where I draw the other folks there, embellishing colors sometimes, and of course putting thoughts in their heads and words in their mouths.</span></strong><br />
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes it's a body position that catches my eye, or a bright red hat ...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And sometimes it's just the next person my eye finds along the wall or at the tables in front of me, who gets chosen.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And sometimes those thoughts and words come from my own experiences and from what's on my mind at that particular time.</span></strong> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It's definitely spring in California. I've been planting in my vegetable garden, pulling weeds, and thinking of more things I can plant in containers. I found three wire bowls at the thrift store today and will fill them with those inserts and add dirt and maybe some strawberry plants or tomatoes that can spill over their sides after I hang them on my fence over my veggie garden.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">These women were more interested in the colors of the season ... And almost everyone has changed their black coats for more colorful outer wear.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Except this woman below, who may or not be a spy. I think she probably isn't, but again the stuff in the NEWS gets stuck in my brain when I write these things.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-size: large;">I wish you a creative week to come. Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your comments that are the fuel that keeps me drawing.</span></strong><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-23654717149304156652017-03-16T19:26:00.000-07:002017-03-16T19:31:45.615-07:00Life is Good!<strong><span style="font-size: large;">It's hard to know what problems my people will encounter in any given week. This week was full of them. Take the biker and the redhead, who could not believe the other was truly interested in them:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Or this husband, who couldn't get his wife to sit still and listen to him.</span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Or the gal on her laptop, who had already written one Dear John letter a week ago ...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">... The younger sister, who just wanted a little reassurance, but big sister wasn't going to help with that!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">... or those infernal long lines at Starbucks! Where waiting is the name of the game!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">But this one really took the prize! The two lovers were fine, but then unseen here was this other guy who came in with flowers for a different women, who wouldn't look up from her phone to receive them. From my vantage point it looked like "apology flowers" for what I can only guess at, and she was not in the mood to accept his apology! He finally left. Don't know what happened to the flowers.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">On a lighter and more positive note this daughter was appreciative of her mom's help with her homework.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Some days were rather uneventful, just he usual waiting in line and chatting.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">We went to another town and a café near the court house, where lawyers and jury members and such hang out. I found this couple of interest.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And I always start and end my week on Thursdays at Barnes & Noble Café where regulars and newbies hang out doing their thing, the red table is the giveaway.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And then there is my evening at home art done in my recliner off my iPhone on the Sktchy App.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I love drawing all of these people. As you can see the most recent is #181. I've almost filled two art journals with Sktchy folks. Bought the next one today to be ready to continue.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Just too many art journal pages.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Instead, some of my usual faire:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">These fine folks at the coffee shop ...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And then of course there is the nightly <em>Sktchy Portrait</em>, this night there was a photo of four women all laughing and having a grand time. I got three of them in this portrait ...</span></strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And the forth one on another night. Aren't they lovely though?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And then back to the coffee shop every morning but Tuesdays, as I have clients on Tuesday.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I love finding fun expressions on the Sktchy folks photos to draw! She liked this one.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">For International Women's Day I drew Malala also on Sktchy. She is such a dynamic young woman.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And today I finished up at Barnes & Noble Café where I quickly drew my regular gals there,</span></strong> </div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">and these two sitting alone. I did find a nice spirial art journal on sale for my littlest grand daughter, with a picture of the girls in Frozen on it's hard cover. Was glad I noticed this 50% off sale sign in the window when I was drawing or I might have missed the good deal.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and then something quite funny happened. As you can see on the right page I started to draw a woman who was sitting there, but I had only drawn this one small line of her head when she got up to leave. I told my husband of my frustration, when he said the things on the left page which got me laughing so hard I thought I was going to loose it completely. It's nice having a humorous husband.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"><strong>Wishing you a Creative Week. Thanks for Stopping by and please know that your visits and comments do keep me drawing!</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The day I was drawing these folks a man sitting next to me was leaning over trying to see what I was doing. He asked if I was sketching. I asked if he wanted to see. He looked through my entire art journal of these coffee shop cartoons and laughed and laughed. I couldn't have been given a higher compliment. I told him when he finished that I had drawn him numerous times. I even found one in my book to show him.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">He shared that he was a poet and he shared a few poems he'd written that he had on his phone. He shared a bit of his life history with me too, as it made the poem make sense. He is the only child of Holocaust survivor parents and his writing depicted this is such a way to bring tears to my eyes.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">It was nice meeting a landsman, someone I'd drawn before, and to find out what we had in common. (both Jewish, artists)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the environment influences the talk. Like these real signs at Barnes & Noble Café.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I love these people who let me draw them and it's especially heartwarming when they give me feed back telling me they like what I've done with their photos. They are on the Sktchy App for iPhone. And <u><em>some of them</em></u> actually look very close to the real person. I'm getting better as I grow my drawing skills.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Guess where I am going tomorrow? To the quilt store. I haven't made a quilt in over five years. But I am going to get back to it having had a request, so I need to smarten up my skills. I hope it's like riding a bicycle and I will get back on my sewing machine and remember how to ride it.</span></strong><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-49879956591725306702017-02-23T20:19:00.001-08:002017-02-23T20:19:31.244-08:00Nineteen (19) Urban Drawings, One (1) Sktchy Portrait, and Five (5) Grandchildren Portraits by Lynn Cohen<br />
<strong>Looks like we are back at last Saturday, thank goodness I sometimes write the day of the week on my drawings, at Starbucks where I drew a random gathering of individuals all doing their thing.</strong><br />
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<strong>And then there was this couple, who I was sure was on a first date, as they talked and laughed and carried on for a very long time, all the while posturing and showing their very best selves to each other. I can tell.</strong><br />
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<strong>This couple was far beyond the first date, as they were meeting up with wedding planners, or so I guessed, by the stack of photo albums and brochures to look through and questions asked and ideas thrown around. In the end the gal with brown bangs left with the guy with red shirt and the other couple were the planners, who collected their albums and left together. I hope they have a lovely wedding.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ah, a different day, a different Starbucks. I drew the woman first and then she and her partner left. So I had to find a different guy from another group to draw sitting next to her. Life creates untold adventures this way.</strong><br />
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<strong>Do you remember "Follow the bouncing red ball, at the movie theater sing-alongs at movie theaters when you were a kid like I do? That is where this "Follow the bouncing red coffee cups" came from. There is just no telling where my art takes my imagination or the other way around.</strong><br />
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<strong>The guy in red is the guy I borrowed for the woman in the drawing earlier. Are you all following and keeping up here?</strong><br />
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<strong>I do believe these were a mom and three daughters or a mom and a daughter and friends. You decide who belongs to whom.</strong><br />
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<strong>Oh yes, I remember them. This was the guy I thought looked thuggish. I am thinking he is actually a nice guy with his nice family out on Sunday for a nice morning together. But my mind saw other things in his demeanor and look.</strong> <strong> There's that imagination going on a wild ride again.</strong><br />
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<strong>Okay, this was the RAINY DAY that would not stop. So of course I imagined everyone was talking about the RAIN!!!</strong><br />
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<strong>It did stop if you were wondering and the new fence stayed up and no trees fell down in our yard. But not everyone was as lucky.</strong><br />
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<strong>On this day people were having big thoughts so I wrote them all out for you to see.</strong><br />
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<strong>And finally today, I was back at Barnes & Noble Café where I drew only two drawings. This one with a ten in one ball point pen. I learned it takes forever to color a picture with ball point pens.</strong><br />
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<strong>I can't believe I only did one Sktchy portrait this week. Well you will see why next!</strong><br />
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<strong>Then on Sunday last our grandson, eldest of our five grand children called to say he would be traveling thorough our town on his way somewhere else and could he stop by to visit with us a bit. I said sure, as we always love to see our grand kids. We missed him over the holidays when we were in Portland, OR because he was in Peru. He gets around this one.</strong></div>
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<strong>Then he told us his sister, our eldest grand daughter had taken and passed her nursing exam and got a job in a hospital near where she lives in Oregon right away! We are so proud of her. I drew this from a photo I took of her when we were together in December.</strong><br />
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<strong>The two oldest are my son's children, and so is this next little one, Allie aged five, from his second marriage. This is from her kindergarten photograph.</strong></div>
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<strong>Yael and Aaron are twin siblings, and are my daughter's two. We are blessed with a beautiful family </strong><strong>and loving grandchildren. We love being their grandparents. Yael is an artist and Aaron a soccer champion. </strong><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-13896757782418249542017-02-16T19:50:00.002-08:002017-02-16T22:19:27.796-08:00"LOVE" from artist friend Jessica Sporn and my weekly drawings and portraits<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<strong>I have been fortunate to meet a multitude of artists from all the world from on line klasses and Facebook art groups as well. This first piece of art here is <em><u>NOT mine</u></em>, but that of the wonderful artist, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://jessicasporn.blogspot.com/">Jessica Sporn</a>.</span> Jessica's art adorns my walls, table tops and bookshelves. When she recently posted this on Valentine's Day and said we could share it I decided to share it with my blog visitors. I hope you take a minute to read within the letters. Jessica is not only a verbal activist for peace, but an ACTIVE one too. She goes every year to Guatemala where she helps build houses for families in need, and has adopted families to continue to help beyond the roof over their heads. I admire her greatly. Check out her website as her art is stunning.</strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And now for MY ART:</span></strong> <strong>My week in reverse, as I drew these folks at Barnes & Noble Café today!</strong><br />
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<strong>These ladies were chatting about the books they were reading. Maybe they were a book club of two.</strong></div>
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<strong>I love this one. (Can I say that?) I have drawn the woman on the left multiple times. I think she knows I draw her, but she's never approached me. I sit across the room from her, but directly across, and it is not all that far. I drew the other woman first, who was in the corner. Not her friend, who came later.</strong><br />
<strong>Oh, check out the first of MY drawings above and find her and her friend she works with here in the bottom half of that double page spread. Her friend is sitting next to her there all in black.</strong><br />
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<strong>These guys looked like they were crowding each other from my perspective!</strong> </div>
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<strong>Yesterday we were at Starbucks where these people were chatting away. And the guys on the right sorted out their space problem.</strong></div>
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<strong>I love the idea of older people getting back into dating. Don't know why. I am sure this is really a happily married couple, however, I liked giving them a different life. Silly me.</strong></div>
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<strong>This gal come in and just stood at the table for awhile. Long enough for me to draw her there.</strong></div>
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<strong>Last Sunday, I am so glad I sometimes put the days on my drawings, we were at the same Starbucks.</strong><br />
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<strong>I love this little family. They were together, yet each busy doing her own thing. Mom in front and two daughters all at separate tables. I have seen mom there often in some work capacity talking with other adults. I smiled at her on their way out and she gave me the nicest smile. Perhaps she recognized me as well.</strong><br />
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<strong>These three sat for a second or two and then got up quickly and left. I was pretty sure the woman on the far left knew I was drawing and maybe thought it might be her, which it was. Anyway, I may have frightened them away.</strong><br />
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<strong>Another day, another Starbucks. They sat right across from me, but I don't think they had a clue what I was doing, they were so busy with their own devices. And then two other women arrived and they put down the phone and laptop and were in deep conversation all four.</strong><br />
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<strong> I drew them and then we left to go grocery shopping, and guess what? So did they. As we were checking out they were coming in to the same grocery store. Small world. No words were exchanged. My husband is always so surprised when I tell him who was where and how I "know them". He is always reading and not paying a bit of attention to who is around us. I, on the other hand, grow to know them intimately. Or so it seems.</strong><br />
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<strong>This may have been the same day. Two sisters, one annoying the other.</strong></div>
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<strong>And then I drew quite diligently using the <span style="font-size: x-large;">Sktchy App</span> on my iPhone. I love my Sktchy People too.</strong><br />
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<strong>This is a drawing of me done by another<span style="font-size: large;"> Sktchy Artist, Judy Novak</span>. I think she did a great likeness of me, don't you? Thank you again Judy.</strong><br />
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<strong>And this week was significant in that I completed yet another at journal full of my out and about drawings of people in public places, like these below:</strong><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-14361978917318015822017-02-09T18:49:00.000-08:002017-02-09T18:49:03.399-08:00THIS WEEK: Nine (9) Portraits and 37 People in Urban Drawings<br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to my art gallery of Nine Portraits from Sktchy (app for iPhone) photos:</span></strong><br />
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<strong>I choose photos for the characteristics I find appealing in a photo, something that grabs my eye.</strong><br />
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<strong>I am sure it was his red hair and beard that got me to draw "Paul".</strong> </div>
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<strong>I am using Copic Markers and I liked the challenge of her skin tones and shadows</strong>.</div>
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<strong>This young woman asked us to draw her and her boyfriend for his birthday.</strong></div>
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<strong>She said she liked this one.</strong></div>
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<strong>I made some egregious errors on this drawing, but saved it nonetheless. I have learned in SBS that there are no mistakes and was happy with the outcome once I "fixed" them.</strong><br />
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<strong>She had a spunky attitude and wonderful hair to draw!</strong></div>
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<strong>I liked her red hair and lips in contrast to her green eyes. And I also had to fix some errors.</strong><br />
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<strong>This one went more smoothly. I loved the blue streak across her face.</strong></div>
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<strong>I continued to draw all week long in coffee shops using my sticker conversation balloons for added fun.</strong><br />
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<strong>And sometimes I make my own voice balloons and cut and paste them to the page.</strong></div>
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<strong>They were obviously talking to softly for me to hear.</strong> </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-32834005863669971032017-02-01T13:19:00.001-08:002017-02-01T13:19:44.979-08:00Portraits, Daily Art Outs Fill My Week<strong>Welcome! </strong><br />
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<strong>The first three portraits here were all done off the Sktchy App Photos (for iPhone). I don't know these folks, but I sure enjoyed drawing them. </strong><br />
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<strong>I am using Copic markers and they are great for blending skin tones; and fun colors for backgrounds and clothing too.</strong><br />
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<strong>This is Meral. I don't know her personally, however, I have drawn her multiple times now. She has such an expressive face for a young woman of 20.</strong><br />
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<strong>And this is Laura. I like that all the "models" get back to me and let me know they like how I drew them. It is very reassuring.</strong><br />
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<strong>And then of course I continue to draw at Starbucks about five days a week.</strong><br />
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<strong>These ladies were enjoying glasses of wine at a live music concert we went to last weekend to hear the Old West Trio.</strong></div>
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<strong>More Starbucks Stars.</strong><br />
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<strong>I found these stickers of conversation bits at the thrift store and am having fun adding them to my art.</strong><br />
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<strong>This was for a klass assignment to draw folks off the TV program I was watching. Whoopi Goldberg was a guest on the Van Jones show.</strong><br />
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<strong>And then for another artist friend's challenge I was drawing with oil crayons using crazy colors blindly chosen!</strong><br />
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<strong>Susanne Nason is a klassmate in Sketchbook Skool. She was seeing the portraits I was drawing and asked if I would draw her (again) I do believe we have drawn each other several times in the past. Susanne spends a lot of time on a sail boat and had a sunburned nose and shoulders. My Copic markers had lots of choices for pinks to give her this look. She likes it too.</strong><br />
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<strong>Today we were once more at Starbucks and once more I used the stickers I got at the thrift store.</strong><br />
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<strong>Actually that was a very sweet little baby. Maybe the "monster" is the phone she is on while holding him.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">it will brighten your mood.</span></strong></div>
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<strong>My second portrait of new friend from SBS, Maria. I think I got the proportions of her face better in this one, but not her beauty. I'll keep trying.</strong><br />
<strong>Or maybe I should stick with my earlier self challenge to just draw and not worry whether or not it actually looks like the person I am drawing from a photo.</strong><br />
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<strong>And the new colors I bought are great for hair and eyes too!</strong><br />
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<strong>I try to choose photos that have a lot of personality. I love this bright eyed gal with her scrunched expression and this cherry cheeked gentleman.</strong><br />
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<strong>And this guy just looked so cheerful and kind.</strong><br />
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<strong>Tonight I drew this fellow! I appreciate when they give me different twists and turns to wrap my pen around.</strong><br />
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<strong>The week started last Thursday at Barnes & Noble Café where I drew this woman, who is a regular there. Perhaps you can recognize her by now. Her friend went away from the table for a bit giving me a full view of this gal.</strong><br />
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<strong>The next day we were at a Starbucks where these women we chatting away. And one woman facing us is balancing coffee cups on her head. (Or so it seemed)</strong><br />
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<strong>At the same time this guy enjoyed a coffee with his wife and I am guessing, daughter.</strong><br />
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<strong>Later that week we were at another Starbucks (we rotate around three or four of them in our area) where this sweet family was enjoying their time there.</strong><br />
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<strong>Across the room a pair were working on something together, the guy between them was alone I believe doing his own thing, he had quite the stare; and the third guy was doing something else on a small fold up lap top unconnected to the others.</strong><br />
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<strong>I enjoyed watching folks standing in line. I liked this woman's faux fur collar on her white jacket. She was with the short guy in his martial arts jacket. I wondered if they were going to buy something off the shelves too.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">On Monday of this week</span> I went to Oakland where I met up with a klassmate from Sketchbook Skool! You know I have been taking klasses on line in SBS for over two and half years. Maria Barci just started taking her first SBS klass a couple of months ago. She found me there. I'm so glad as we love each other's art styles, and since we live about a hour apart we decided to meet up in person and draw together. </strong><br />
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<strong>I drew Maria from a photo I took of her after I got home. She dresses so stylishly. It was a challenge. I wasn't 100% thrilled with the outcome, because I couldn't capture her beauty, but I will try again and again hoping I eventually do.</strong><br />
<strong>However, she loved the drawing and was happy when I sent it to her.</strong><br />
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<strong>Here we are together before setting out to draw and talk more at Starbucks near where she lives. (notice the T Shirt Press for putting her art on T Shirts in the other room behind us, I'll show you more about that later in this post.)</strong><br />
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<strong>I drew her drawing at Starbucks:</strong><br />
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<strong>And later she drew me from a photo she took of me (see below)</strong><br />
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<strong>I think she really got my look and joy. We both were having <span style="font-size: large;">a very happy day together.</span></strong><br />
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<strong>I continue to draw portraits from photos on the Sktchy app for IPhones. I am using mostly Copic markers on them too.</strong><br />
<strong>I bought a whole bunch more at Dick Blick than the mostly skin tones I already had, and now I have a lot of bright colors too!!!!</strong><br />
<strong>I think I have enough for a while.</strong><br />
<strong>This Dick Blick in Berkeley, CA also sells the refill ink bottles and I got one of them for the skin tone color I already used up. I think it's the E00 marker. It's very cost effective to have ink to refill markers! You can buy fresh nibs there too.</strong><br />
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<strong>And finally today here I am drawing at yet another Starbucks in our town above and below on a very rainy day.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">One more thing about Maria Barci</span>, not only is she a stylishly dressed lovely young woman, and great artist, she also makes T Shirts with her art on them to sell like the one below featuring her drawing of Iris Apfel. If you would like one too, I love mine, let me know and I'll get you the contact information.</strong> <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I really appreciate your comments!</div>Lynn Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094038275377357886noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069433582032233420.post-86829803082526488912017-01-11T14:21:00.000-08:002017-01-11T14:26:38.243-08:00Success is Meeting A New Friend from France and Drawing A Well recieved Portrait of her.First Francoise drew me, an as yet unknown to me artist on Sketchbook Skool. And then she asked me to draw her back.<br />
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Then it was back to the usual day to day drawings at Starbucks. I love this woman's wardrobe coordination. Even her notebook matches. And her purse on the chair.</div>
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In my Klass with Veronica Lawlor we are using marks to denote size, distance, texture. I spent some enjoyable time doodling marks on this page.<br />
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And some quickies at yet another Starbucks morning out.<br />
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Some more assignments for klass: a building on site using thin and thick lines, straight and sensuous lines.<br />
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and for the prompt "breakfast" for "A Drawing A Day" challenge</div>
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More Starbucks Stars!<br />
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I hope you are having a creative week. Stay warm and safe where ever you are and draw like crazy.<br />
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<strong>I'm taking a new Sketchbook Skool klass called A Drawing A Day with Veronica Lawlor. Not that I needed encouragement to draw every day; I do that anyway. But I love new klasses and this one is proving to be fun. It also coincides with a Drawing A Day with Prompts challenge. So this top drawing of my new boots in leggings for the cold in Oregon, where we went for the holidays was drawn in a motel on our way home. The prompt was "Rest".</strong> </div>
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<strong>The lemon on the right is the first lemon I picked off the tree I planted this past summer.</strong><br />
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<strong>I continue to draw portraits on Sktchy (app on my iPhone). I love drawing Meral. She has a very soulful face and I have drawn her numerous times now. These two are my latest. They are also my new found love of Copic Markers. One of our Klassmates in SBS made a video at my request showing us how she used them for blending colors for skin tones. I am ecstatic to learn how to do this.</strong><br />
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<strong>This third portrait was at the request of my youngest grand child, Allie, who paints her face herself.</strong><br />
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<strong>This was my first use of Copic markers for a dark skinned fellow. I am so pleased with the results and so was he!</strong><br />
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<strong>This guy got drawn at a Starbucks and I used him for the prompt "Outfit".</strong></div>
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<strong>One last quick lesson with thick and thin lines called sensuous lines that our eye follows in curves of the fallen cord.</strong><br />
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<strong>Thanks for coming by. It's good to be home. I hope you were able to enjoy the holidays. We got to experience some intense weather unlike anything we are used to where we live: rain, sleet, hail and snow. Made for an interesting and very pretty at times ride home.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">It's been a good run.</span></strong></div>
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