Welcome: Only 22 This Week!

You can tell by the chairs where we go for coffee ... the red/burgundy over stuffed chairs are at Starbucks ...

As are these wooden chairs with the double curved backs ...

Still working on my Creative Lettering between jaunts to coffee houses!

 

This is a different Starbucks in our home town.

 

You can see all sorts of people and fairies if you watch carefully ...

This fine woman offered her photo to draw on the Sktchy App. Here's my drawing just in ink. I loved braiding her hair!

 

Back at Starbucks out of town ... these stacks of boxes are at all the Starbucks, I'm guessing they are the holiday products not yet ready to be put out.

Those over stuffed chairs must be very comfy indeed!

These folks sat directly in front of my table at this higher table. The boy was very into his food and iPad; his mom was very into him; and the dad was busy getting up and down and looking around.

 

The woman's photo gave her skin a purple sheen and I did my best to capture it with watercolors.

She later told me she really liked what I did.

You can see at the first Starbucks at the top later in the week, the Halloween spirit was high.

One more Sktchy woman. She liked hers too. These are such fun to do.

Later in the week I got into a black and white mood. I really enjoyed drawing with my  Varsity fountain pen.

 

And the next day too, today actually (Thursday) at Barnes and Noble Café. These tables are red in real life, but I liked leaving them white and black to finish off the week with this particular pen.

 

And then we went out to lunch at the Napa Deli before running a bunch of errands:

 

It was a good week. I hope yours was too. I only worked part of one day this week. I guess I am officially semi retired. Next week I will work part of two days. And think I may not take any new clients until the first of the New Year. See how that goes.

 

I kind of like this new life style of mine.

 

Wishing you a Creative Week. Thanks for coming by and your comments really do keep me drawing. Happy Paint Party Friday too.

More Inspiration From my Garden

I continue to enjoy drawing and coloring on black paper using Gelli Roll pens. Some are Moonlight, some Metallic, some Neon. The model for this flower is one brightly colored orange from a pot in my yard.

 

And there the same flower is again in the container pot. It's funny as when I drew the one above I was not remembering that I had already drawn it earlier.

 

Cucumbers, Zucchini and tomatoes from my garden laid out on the table to draw and eat, later.

 

This is a sunflower from memory. With a bit of whimsical added!

 

I've become impassioned with gel pens and keep buying more and more stopping with a kit of 74 I found on Amazon. They are all good, the majority draw on black well, and they are least expensive buying in bulk this way. So a very good deal.

 

And just incase you thought I was done drawing people in public I've added her. She was actually wearing a black sweater, but pink worked better for me! I drew way more people this past week, but my phone balked or Blogger did, at adding anymore photos. I hope this isn't a precursor of things to come. If so I will have to figure out another way to blog.

 

 

I started in a group of artists agreeing to draw in each others art journals as they traveled full circle around the United States. My book left February 2015 and returned home this week, September 2016. It was worth the wait. Now filled with wonderful art from fifteen other artists.

I drew this cover upon it's homecoming.

 

I hope you are having a creative week!

Happy PPF.

 

Last Week's Art Out, an Apology and more.

 We'd just gotten back from our trip across eight states, and spending one week at home recouping from some weird virus we'd caught at the end of that trip. I went back to work and thus back to lunches out first at Taco Jalisco's (above).

I was welcomed back so warmly. "The Couple" was there and waved as to an old dear friend. Carlos spent time at my table talking and sharing how he wanted to start showing his art on the walls there in the restaurant and wanted to include my art from there too! It was a great day!

The next day I walked further down town to the Pure Grain Bakery. The sun was shining and it was warm out. I chose to eat my broccoli salad outside where I could see and draw these ladies. One was crocheting, the other was sewing a stuffed animal. I think it was a cat on her lap. The other two women on the right were really behind the first two but they fit better in my picture this way.
Now that I look at this painting I feel as though I am still there with them joining in their conversations even though I did not do that in reality.

On Thursday I was back at Taco Jalisco's again. It was fairly crowded. The Couple was there but not at a good angle to draw them. We smiled and said Hi! I liked that guy in the brown hat.

I drew this next group helter skelter from all over the room the following week on Tuesday at J's. The guy from The Couple got into the picture, he's the third guy from the left with glasses on.  If the gal on the far left is his wife it sure does not look like her. I think she's someone else. Oh memory stay with me. I think I couldn't see his wife for all the people sitting in front of them. Even the flowers got in the way of peoples faces and I had to ad lib at times.

It was good to be home and back with my peeps!

 

I'm sharing this with Paint Party Friday

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I want to thank everyone from there who came to my blog last week

and left comments. I have to apologize, as even though I posted I was

out of town for five days and could not get to everyone's blog.

I promise to do better this week to make up for that.

I normally do my best to get to every single artists blog who posts on PPF!

 

Have a wonderful weekend.

And if you are on the EAST COAST my prayers are with you.

I hope you have food and electricity by now and are dry and safe.

 

Our President Obama is doing such a great job helping those in need

who have suffered terrible losses from hurricane Sandy.

I hope he has more than proved he deserves your vote next week!

 

He already has mine.