Every Day in September, El Cerrito Free Folk Festival, Starbucks Folks, ETC.

 
A prompt for U in Everyday in September was Uni. Of course Freda's Unibrow came into my mind immediately! This is maybe my 3rd time drawing her. Such an inspirational artist!

 
Last Saturday we went to the Free Folk Festival in El Cerrito, CA where we listened to musicians all day long ...

We listened and I drew as many of them as I could for 4 and half hours: total: 30!

2 braids, one long, one short

We knew some of the folks there going back to the 1970's when we first started going to folk festivals in the Bay Area. My husband sang a solo in the "Out of Harmony's Way" group in the afternoon, and he got his  usual response: Amazement! And lots of YIPS!~

It was fun watching clothing too. There was floral and Tie-dyed, silks and linens, music note prints on socks and guitar printed shirts!

The age range was mostly older folks like ourselves, those old 1970's hippie types, but a few young people too. We sure hope this genre of music does not die out with our generation!

Afterwards, we went to my daughter's home for dinner. It's always fun being with our kids and grandkids!

I'm trying out some new art supplies here: A toned art journal, and "Generals" pastel pencils. I'm enjoying using them.

Here they are again, but on white paper!

The last prompt for Every Day in September was "The end of September, the road, of life as we know it ... be creative." I was going to make a collage of all the drawings I did for that challenge in September, but my computer program brought up all the art I've done since I started Sketchbook Skool in 2014 (April). It about knocked my socks off seeing how much I had drawn in all that time in one place!

And now we begin Every Day in October. The first prompt is "Pink Ribbon (for Breast Cancer Awareness Month)". We are to be creative. So I drew my best friend from childhood, Patty, who died from cancer two years ago (July). My tribute to my greatly missed best friend. I love you Patty.

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I wish you a Creative Week! Enjoy whatever form that takes for you!

I finished another book. I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I am learning a lot about WWII, this time in the Pacific. It's a heavy read, but I couldn't put it down.

Thanks for coming by and for your comments that inspire me to keep drawing! I appreciate them so much.

Starbucks, Tacos Jalisco, Tacos Jalisco and Tacos Jalisco!!

These are the folks I found at Starbucks on Saturday last. By the time we were ready to go, there were six people sitting at tables like that round one along that wall all with computers out. One woman had a huge book, I bet it was six inches thick, on Medical Physiology! Boy, did she have a lot to learn!

I drew this with black ink pen (prism color); and colored it in quickly with colored pencils (water soluble) and then used my drinking water and a paint brush to paint the colors wet. I like the way you still see some of the colored pencil lines under the "paint".

Yes, I did all that at the cafe!

(colored pencil + water + watercolors)

On Tuesday, I went to Tacos Jalisco for lunch. I am getting braver and braver not only drawing in public, but now coloring in public too, and painting what I have colored. This time I put my water via my straw onto my plate of finished food, a small pool, and dipped my paint brush into it to highlight the water soluble colored pencil.

So I AM PAINTING in public!

(which is something that Carlos challenged me to do this year!)

Today a woman came over to my table to remark about what I was doing. She shared that her sister had just taken a watercolor class and was really enjoying it. She showed me a butterfly her sister had painted that she had on her phone. She asked me if I taught painting!

Wow!

I had to say, "No, I just Do It!"

;-)

I finished the art journal I started the very end of January 2013 on March 5, 2013. It isn't taking me very long to fill them up. Forty pages! A few with drawings on both sides. Carlos had a little time to sit and talk. He passed his acting class final with flying colors!!! Yey, Carlos!!!!!!!!

This guy was eating at Tacos Jaliscos too, same day as up above, but he's in the two spiral art journal.

I kind of liked him in black and white so didn't paint him later.

 I put drafting tape around the borders of this and the picture above before I started drawing.

It came off smoothly on the watercolor paper above.

On this paper it stuck more and tore a bit of the top layer of the paper when I removed it.

But I really like this new style (for me) of border.

Perhaps this will be my more neat period!?

What do you think?

On Wednesday I had full intentions of walking downtown to the Deli or the Bakery for lunch,

however as I stepped outside my office it was sprinkling ... so ...

I slipped into the eatery closest to my office instead,

which happens to be

Tacos Jalisco

!

I started drawing "The Kid" in the baseball cap, when  two things happened at once:

1. "The Couple" came in and

2. "The Kid" and his friend got done eating and got up to leave.

So I left the ink drawing of "The Kid" and proceeded to draw "The Couple", who had much to my delight sat at a table facing mine, where I could capture their likenesses easily!

I later went back to finish the picture of "The Kid" after he was no longer there, adding background from the room behind where he had been sitting.
I colored it in AFTER drawing and coloring "The Couple" below.
And later at my office, when a client did not show for their appointment,
I got a cup of water and with paint brush "painted" the water soluble colored pencils.

As You can see Carlos was there behind the counter and his dad was in the kitchen.

"The Couple" and I had some words, all positive, I went on to color and paint that picture there.
And when I got done and ready to go it was no longer raining.

Happy Paint Party Friday!

Thanks for coming by and leaving your comments, it warms my heart to the MAX! 

                                      It made a nice "Tacos Jalisco Family" drawing!