Every Day in June Winds Down, I go Drawing on Mare Island, in Copenhagen, and Close to Home too!

 

Every Day in June winds down with numbers 27-30:

 

 

#26 "Night Lights" reminded me of putting my little grand daughter to bed and making sure I leave a little light on for her in her room.

 

#27 "Something You Collect" for me meant all the friends I've made since making and sharing my art on line. This particular friend, Carmel Campbell, and I were Skyping with each other and drawing each other, while I opened a big box of gifts she'd sent me for my birthday: What do artist friends give each other? ART SUPPLIES of course!!!

Thanks again, Carmel. You are a gem!

 

 

#28 "Spit Shine" reminded me of how my mother used to 'clean me up' if we were out in public and she saw a smudge of something on my face. She'd moisten a tissue with her spit and dab it on the offending spot to make me more presentable, I guess.

 
#29 "Vacation"

 The memory of the first vacation I took my self on at age 19 to Mexico. I went alone. Traveled by bus. And really did sleep all night in that hammock on the beach in Acapulco. Breakfast was freshly caught fish, re-fried beans and homemade tortillas from a small locally own kiosk on the beach. Yes, I was quite adventurous in my youth. People I met along the way looked out for me and I had a safe journey.

 

and #30 "Religious Icons/Imagery"

 

was done last Sunday when I was at a Meet Up with San Francisco Sketchers and a Nature Journal group from the City on Mare Island, in Vallejo, CA. Mare Island is a now closed Navel yard.

People do live in the grand old officers homes!

We hiked around the island, looking at Osprey's nesting and flying over head; and later in the day visited this St. Peter's Chapel with it's beautiful Tiffany Glass stained glass windows.

I'll show you more of that day later on in this post.

 

 

 

Also this week I did another Collaborative Drawing. this time with Sketchbook Skool Klassmate, Ditte Neilsen, from Copenhagen.

I donned my new Rainbow Cape, in commemoration of the Supreme Court Ruling for the legalization of Same Sex Marriages in all States in the United States of America.

I am very proud of my country today because of that!

 

 

So I flew over to Copenhagen and Ditte drew this wonderful page and sent it to me to add to:

 

I had fun coloring it and adding myself into her scenes she set for us.

Thanks Ditte for playing along with me; and for your wonderful sense of humor!

Meanwhile, back at home in California, I dropped into the Town Square where I heard loud, blues music being played and sung!
Lots of people sat and watched while others got up and danced! It was a fun Saturday Morning!

Later that day we had lunch again in Winters, yes, you guessed it, at the El Pueblo Meat Market and Deli. My husband really LOVES their hamburgers! The fish tacos are good too.

Sunday morning we stopped at Starbucks, and Fred ran in to get his coffee. I stayed in the car and drew this old ford pick up across from where we were parked.

We went to Vallejo and onto Mare Island and gathered with the San Francisco Sketchers and the Nature Journal group. We went on the nature hike, which felt fine at the time, but my legs are still screaming from all the hill climbing I did that day. The day right after I was shuffling around here like I was 140 years old!

I drew these folks looking at the Ospreys in that big nest on top of that tall tree on the right.

I met a lot of really nice people on this trek. Mel, the guy in the dark shirt below here, is a science teacher, he was there with his bird watching wife, Pat. Mel told me he always had his students draw each other the first day of class, to teach them observational skills. He seemed interested in taking up drawing himself, so of course I told him about Sketchbook Skool. I hope he joins us there.

That weird looking open structure is a boat called "The Spirit Boat". I don't have the rest of it's story, sorry. We stopped in the cemetery and I drew one grave stone. And then I drew Linda, an artist I had met at the Fort Mason Life Drawing Marathon back in January. It was fun talking to her again.
She's sitting in St. Peter's Chapel drawing one of the stained glass windows like I did and posted above in my EDJ drawing collection.

It was my birthday last week. I had a great time. My son, in the little sketch on the right was down for a Grateful Dead concert and my daughter who lives in the Bay Area gave him and a friend of his a place to stay; she also invited us down for dinner the night of my birthday. I was so surprised to see my son there, who'd come down from Portland, Oregon! On Monday, Dan and his friend, Rocco, met us in Winters for Breakfast at the Putah Creek Cafe before they headed back home to Oregon.

 It was

indeed a very, very happy birthday!

 

Well, that's all my art from this past week since my last posting!

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Have a creative week.

 

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 Bragging: I finished two art journals this month: One handmade by me, 30 pages of ledger sheets for EDJ, 5" X 8.5"; and 49 of 50 pages in another 5" X 7.5" hand made art journal I found at a thrift store. Started 6/5/15 ... one page to go.

My Week in Art by Lynn Cohen

Day 19 in Every Day in June: FASHION!

This came about around the same time as the horrible murders of nine African American people in their church in Charleston. So I melded the two with a flash to my past in the early 1970's when I was sewing jean ware (hats, purses, vests, jackets and skirts from old jeans)

and our wishes then for PEACE that included Civil Rights!

 

The next prompt was to draw animals or pets so when I found Henry V laying in the clean clothes in the laundry basket with is eyes open glaring at me defying me to tell him to get out, instead I grabbed an art journal and a ball point pen from a bathroom drawer and drew him quickly! He was comfy he did not move.

Last Saturday we went to the Free Folk Festival in San Francisco, where I met up with a group of San Francisco Sketchers and we all drew the musicians in action.

It was a long day with lots of different kinds of music and people who sat still long enough to be drawn with comfort and ease.

I did love this woman's second pair of glasses; and was stoked I could draw an accordion!

I met Monica (on the right here) at the lunch area. We were both waiting for our orders so we chatted. She was there to do Egyptian dancing which she teaches to this group. She knew about the SF Sketchers from the year before and was stoked we were there again (me for the first time).

The last group of the evening was where my husband (in the middle here) sang a solo. I was go glad I got to hear that and draw it too.
He knows the two guys on the right, been singing with them since the early 70's.

I got a chance to use my Parallel Pilot pen on the gal below. Love it's versatility of thick and thin lines.

Back to Every Day In June: "Sporting" shows my  brother and I playing our favorite card game of spite and malice. He always accuses me of cheating. I don't cheat!

The next prompt was "Rain", something we are dearly in need of in California right now!

Of course I am still drawing at Starbucks as well ... loved this curly haired guy and the older folks on the right.

This one comes with a story. I was drawing the woman on the left who was sitting directly behind the guy next to her here. He got up and came over to ask me if I was drawing him. I said "No, I'm drawing the woman behind you!" He went back to sit down. Then feeling he must really have wanted me to be drawing him, I did. Later I called him over as he was on his way out and showed this to him. He said "I like it!" and so I asked him to sign it and he did.
(see initials on his knee)
Then he said "I want half the royalties when it sells!"

That was fun. So was drawing these next three victims, I mean models, who had no idea I was drawing them. At least they didn't indicate that they did.

I still draw the First Northern Bank in Winters if there aren't any folks inside to draw, as was the case on this day.

The next EDJ prompt: In the Can brought these images to mind:

And the prompt for June 24 was "Sweet": which got me drawing something I no longer eat, and that brought up memories of when I did and with whom. Happy Birthday memories!

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EDJ From My Imagination #3-#9, Drawing In Public Places, Collabrative Drawings, More Public Places and More Imagination from Real Life

Every Day in June  (EDJ) is a fun challenge on line to draw daily to a theme. The first two I did are in the blog post before this one. Here are numbers 3 through 9. ( #s10-30 to follow!)

You can read the theme at the top of each ledger sheet.

As you can no doubt tell, I am really enjoying drawing from my imagination. Something that was encouraged in the "Storytelling" segment of Sketchbook Skool. This challenge is really letting me let it all hang out!

This dance number is especially nostalgic for me, as my father was in the juke box and pin ball machine business when I was a kid growing up. So Wurlitzers were found in our garage where he serviced them. And of course they were in every spot we hung out in as teenagers too!

This one spoke to my two plus years as a vegan eater!

I know too many people who are "blue" from depression and grief among my friends, and clients, and people in the news as well.

I finished the Folding Art Journal, my friend, Carmel Campbell in Oregon made for me. This is a last inside cover page done at Barnes & Noble last week.

And this two page spread was the last two page spread in the same art journal. It's filled now.
Thanks again, Carmel.

Starbucks in Davis was a first for us. We hadn't been there before. It's very large, and since it is in a college town it was VERY FULL. No dearth of models to choose from.

I did one more drawing of three different women there, but I can't show it yet. It belongs in a traveling art journal and we vowed not to show that art until the books reach their owners several months from now. I'll have to do a whole blog post then of all the drawings I did & am doing for those 19 books.

Sometimes I just draw the place with no people in it, as for about a minute there were no people standing there where they had just been before and would soon be again!

On Saturday after doing my veggie and fruit shopping at the local farmers market I met up with Fred at the Pure Grain Bakery. I drew these people sitting behind him.

And then these three gals chatting directly behind him.

Next day we were at one of our local Starbucks. We like to mix it up, make the rounds on different days. That poor guy had his arm all bandaged up, and he didn't look very happy either.

This is a half outdoors (through the window) and half indoors, man in front of the baked goods at the same Starbucks!

Later the same day we drove to Winters, for lunch and drawing there. These gals got up as soon as I drew the outline of the gal on the left's head! I kid you not. The entire rest of the drawing was done from memory, except the tables and wall décor, which I could see. I'm pretty darn proud of this.

Continuing my Collaborative drawing, this time with Nathalie R. in Brussels, I drew myself on my "magic carpet", my mode of transportation, wearing my "Flash" cape (inside story at Sketchbook Skool; they call me Flash, because I draw quickly); and I drew Nathalie from a photo of hers.

Nathalie added to my original drawing above!
                          And I followed up with my response below:

Nathalie drew this wonderful drawing of me and the statue and other tourists in Brussels! I added the letter to her. Isn't this fun?

I'm now off to visit more friends in Salzburg, Austria, who I met there in real life last September and continue to be friends with in SBS.

And later, probably in another week, I fly to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit yet another SBS friend.

I am up for drawing virtually/collaboratively with any one living anywhere in the world. My magic carpet knows no limits. Just need an email address for swapping drawings. (in comment area if interested)

This week we went to Starbucks in Dixon ...

... and drew these folks!

On my other blog: Paper, Paint, Pencils & Pens we are drawing to a new theme of drawing in the style of another artist living or dead. This is from memory of a field of sunflowers we drove by this morning in Vacaville, CA, which made me think of Vincent Van Gogh. So I came home and splashed paint on paper, and added ink lines hopefully somewhat in his style.

I hope you enjoyed my drawings from June 3- June 9th. One weeks worth!

Wishing you a creative week! Twenty-two drawings in seven days, not bad, huh? I sure know how to have fun!

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XO Lynn

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