A Week of Twenty Five! I hope you have time to see them all!

My Drawing Week, which starts mid week, this time on a Thursday, began at the Barnes & Noble Café. I loved finding people in colorful garb to draw and color (with markers on tan paper!)

 

The red tables there help add color to the otherwise somber clothing!

 

Next day we got our taxes done and we waited at this Starbucks where I could draw some people inside (guy on left) and some people outside through the window (two guys on the left)

This guy came and sat outside and I could see him after the guy on the right, inside left.

Another day, another coffee house in another town. I was sure the women on the left were having a reunion of their 1960 high school friendships. The women on the right were newer acquaintances and were not catching up on old times, instead they were both on iPhones and sharing photos of grandchildren with each other. Or so it seemed.

The gal on the left reappears in my drawings a lot. Even this week. You'll see. The guy in the spotted pants came back the next day, as did we, and he was wearing the very same pants again. I was probably wearing the very same jeans again.

I'll let these people speak for themselves. Did you know I can read peoples thoughts?

It's a given there will be tons of folks on laptops and phones here, so this was a nice relief watching a mom helping her son doing his homework without either.

Here sits a grown man wearing a shirt with Mickey Mouse on it. You know he has to have a good sense of humor, right?

I just love it when people are so accommodating to sit as long as I need them to to finish a drawing of them. Thanks guy!

And some just like to be left alone.

These gals were not together, and were both just wanting to be invisible. So I did the best I could to accommodate that.

Every Day in March
a group for which I draw every day to a given prompt.

 

Prompt: Veggies:

 

Can you name them all?


Antique:
 



Belongs to my husband. When I said bring me something in the house that is an antique he brought this downstairs for me to draw.

Tiny:

Something Close to You:

 

 

My art supplies are never far from my reach. This is a cloth container by MEAD. This one is filled with colored markers. I have another one full of a variety of pens, and a third one filled with colored pencils. They stand alone. And are inexpensive.

 

"Snapped"

 

 

We can probably all relate to this at one time or another! I recommend a daily relaxation exercise. You can find one on your iPhone (if you have an iPhone) called "Calm". It's a free app.

"Night"

 





 

 

 

"Monet's Garden"

 

 



Others did so many beautiful, colorful gardens in Monet's style. I just gave directions on how to get there.

 

"Brand"

 

 

 

This is the  Brand of non-dairy coconut milk I put in my morning smoothie!

 

"Owl"

If you have followed my blog for very long  you probably recall all the photos I have taken in the past of the burrowing owls that live in our town. So this prompt didn't take much thinking to decide what to draw.

And today we returned to the coffee shop and drew three more pages in my Cottonwood, tan paged art journal:

 
See, there is that same woman again I drew up above! She is there every day!

 

I love drawing in public coffee houses and eateries. It's become such a habit for me now.

It's second nature, and if a day goes by when I can't do it I miss it.

 

You all know  how enamoured I am with Sketchbook Skool, and how much I have learned there. Or hopefully, how the daily drawing habit I acquired since being a student there has perhaps improved my drawings over time.

One of the skools founders, Danny Gregory, has written a new book called

 

"Shut Your Monkey"

 

The monkey in question is the voice you hear in your head that tells you what you are doing is not good enough, or bad, or not as good as so and so's etc.

The book offers suggestions about how to curb (or cage?) your monkey!

 

I entered a drawing with my drawing (above)  to win a free autographed copy of his book.

If I don't win it I can buy my own copy at a bookstore

or get one on Amazon.com.

You can too!

I own all of Danny's other books. They are all good!

 

Whew!

That's it for this week.

Thanks for dropping by.

 

Thank you for your visit and thanks for comments when you leave them, as they really inspire me to keep drawing!

 

See you next week.