The Life and Times of Lynn Cohen This Week!

I'm slipping. There are only 18 drawings to post this week unlike my usual 20. The first one is a prompt from Every day in October: "Shelf Life" ... so I put myself on the shelf and chronicled my life for you!

Next prompt EDiO is "fear"! Guess what I am afraid of? (only when they are running around free inside my house!

An abundance of people to draw at Starbucks this week. Never a dull moment there, as you can see by all the brightly dressed models!

The staff, on the other hand, seems to limit their costumes to black and pink. I caught them here having a staff meeting at the long table at which we normally sit. They guy with his back to us used posters I saw him make there (and I drew him making them) a week or so ago. You might recall.

Next Prompt for EDiO was "Kawaii" which I learned is Japanese for 'cute'. I could have drawn a figure from the Kawaii series, but instead chose to draw our grand daughter, Allie, who had a cute cat painted face.

Saturday at Starbucks featured this family of three; and a lone guy who actually was with his family of two grown daughters. But I made a new family unit for them.

Same day I captured these folks. The guy in the red hat was with the woman at the same table. The other guy was clear across the room. But I like to play with art and made it look like he was eying the first guys woman. Oh, I am BAD!

These folks were oblivious to the carrying on at that other table! It's amazing to me how people can tune each other out and be in their own little worlds there.

Next prompt for EDiO was "Dog & Cat breeds". I drew my cat sitting on my lap with ball point pen and used a bit of markers to fill in the quilt.

Prompt was "Men's Wear". Well, my man wears boots. I grabbed one of them and drew it!

Prompt: "Native". An online friend, Denise Griffiths, posted some photos from her trip in Vancouver, British Columbia. I asked and got permission to draw from one of them. A figure from a totem she saw in an art gallery.

I used a pastel pencil for the hair that was life-like in the  photo. I like the textured look this pencil gave it here.

On Monday we drove into the City (San Francisco, California) where we stopped at the Warming Hut just next to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a bright sunny, warm day. Everyone was OUT in it. This line was very much longer than you see here.

These are some more folks in the same line. Again it went on and on like this for quite a while. When I got ready to color this drawing I had remembered some of the colors, but I could not recall the lady in the green hat's pants color. So I turned to my right where I was sitting to look at the person next to me to see the color of her pants. Lo and behold, it was the very same woman in the green hat! She caught on to what I was doing and told me she liked my drawings. I thanked her and went on coloring (painting). When I was done she was still there so I showed it to her and told her I had drawn her too. She liked it even more then I think. I asked her to sign it, as proof we'd spoken, and she did! Great fun when that happens!

Guess what the next prompt was? If you guessed "Fruit" you are right! LOL

 

And then they moved on to "Outer Space" ... I was a bit at a loss for that one, but many people drew and painted some awesome skies and planets. Instead I did two, the first one, me from a distorted photo which I titled: "Spaced Out". The second from an old photo in a toy store where I tried on this space helmet! Did that one in ball point pen and gel pens.

And lastly, today, the 15th, I drew at Barnes & Noble Café. First these two guys sitting across the room from me, both busy on their computers ...  and next the young woman below also working or studying hard with a real time book, no technology in sight, but she does have those long cords coming out of her ears ... I don't know where her device was hidden. I sure didn't see it to draw it.

Well it was a busy week, as you can see, and a creative one. I hope yours was too! Be well, stay safe, and have as much fun as you possibly can. Each day is a gift! Enjoy it!

 

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The Life and Times in Drawings by Lynn Cohen

A week ago Friday we went to Starbucks. I go there exclusively to draw. I am so very appreciative of all the people who sit for me. None of them know it, yet they are very compliant models. Sometimes they even "talk"! (but never directly to me).

 I had a suspicion that the blond woman who was with her young son got wind that I was looking at her from way across the room. It might just be my paranoia, but they got up to leave very soon as I was finishing them. The guy on the right hadn't a clue and he sat much closer to us.

The people in line to place their orders are easy as they are all focused away from me! I'm good at backsides and profiles!

 

Just this past Friday we went to visit family. We had breakfast with my brother at Fat Apples! Their oatmeal isn't as good as Starbucks oatmeal. Maybe that's because I put a ton of cinnamon on the one at Starbucks! And my brother does not normally put his elbow and hand in his plate, but he did here for some reason!?  Later in the day we took our two grandkids out for ice cream. Well, they ate ice cream and I drew them. Okay, I had a tiny taste of my grand son's Jamaica Almond Fudge! (I don't normally eat dairy) ...

We were there for Grandparents Day at the kids school. There were presentations by the kids in all the classes and we also got to go into their individual class rooms to see what they were doing and learning. We also got interviewed about our own childhoods. That was fun.

On another day my husband and I went to Winters, CA for lunch at the El Pueblo Meat Market and Deli. It's a new haunt of ours and I do like drawing there too. It looks like my husband is in the meat display case along with the chicken and shrimp, but he's not. It just looks that way.

On Sunday I had a field day drawing this rather large woman, who sat at the table right across from ours. I love drawing large people. There are so many interesting curves and turns to their bodies. The other woman looked very familiar to me. I must see her somewhere else out in the community.
This doesn't really look like her so she won't recognize herself here.

These women were fun to draw in their colorful clothing, and chatty ways, as they placed their orders at the counter!

 "Something Used for Measuring"

Then I am continuing to draw daily for EDM (Every day in May) to the prompts there. This is a ruler I have on my desk with Hebrew letters, which are also numbers!

 "A favorite recipe"

 

 

 "Something I could give or throw away" ... or recycle, which I do!

 

 

 "Something I use every day"

" Lipstick"
I don't use lipstick at all and haven't in years, so this is just from memory!

These two were done in digital art using the app Paper 53 and my finger for the stylus

" a cupcake"

 

We went back to the grand kids school on Monday for a special ceremony they and their fifth grade class were involved in. It was lovely to be there again. My grand daughter is the girl with the long curly hair, she kind of stands out there, as she does in my heart. Her brother was drumming to the side and I couldn't see him so he's not in the picture. Their parents are the couple watching on the far right. My daughter had flowers on her sweater.

Afterwards, my husband and I drove into San Francisco. We had lunch at the Warming Hut by the Golden Gate Bridge. It was fun to draw there too. I thank Sketchbook Skool for my passion for continual drawing in multiple sketchbooks and most days of my life now. I'm a little behind on my homework, but will share that with you next time.

Have a Creative Week!

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Thanks for coming by, your visits and comments keep me drawing too! It's fun to have interested folks to share it all with. See you next week!

Beautiful Day In San Francisco

The paper said rain storms with wind and hail. This is what we got instead:

Grate Art!

Fort Point

Civil War museum

Great shapes and views

Exercise too

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