Blog Time Time for New Art

It was a special week this week. It was Grandparents Day at our middle grandchildren's school. (we have five, these are the twins who are in 7th grade now) The older young woman in the top photo is their cousin, Abbie, who was visiting from Boston and joined us at the school. I drew her and our grandson, Aaron, later in the evening at their home. I drew Yael too, but neglected to upload that drawing.
It was a fun day and evening.

 

Later in the week I did my now ritual drawings at Starbucks, and gave them their stories.

And I continue to draw a portrait a night using photos on Sktchy App on my iPhone.

These are really fun to draw. I love all the different expressions I find there.

On Monday there were long lines at Starbucks ...

 ... and people on technology per usual.

and in the evening there is time for more Sktchy Portrait  drawing.

 

Feel free to vote for your favorites.

On Thursday we go to Barnes & Noble Café where I find great sales and wonderful people to draw, some for the first time like these two ...

 

and some who I have drawn numerous times like these three:

The gal on the far right had new highlights in her hair!

And tonight there was just time for one more sktchy portrait before I loaded my art from the week for you to see.

 

I appreciate your visiting here and thank you in advance for any comments you feel like leaving.

I wish you a Creative Week ahead.

Have fun.

Welcome to My Week in Drawing

A work in black ink on white paper. In fact it is a Papermate pen.
Nothing fancy.

 

And I continue to draw at Starbucks. Tom Bow markers were my tool of choice.

 

I  used Copic Markers and Ink to draw Nicole. She is from Sktchy App  as are most of my portraits.

 

This was a memorable day when two separate people at the same Starbucks, one a customer and one an employee, stopped by my table to tell me they liked my drawings.

 

Sktchy guy using Copic Markers.

 

I drew Sally Yates while watching her testify on TV.

J. Travis is another Sktchy subject. I am so grateful to these folks who allow us to draw them.

 



You can see a theme here of my mixture of drawing portraits and drawing from life at Starbucks.

 

I like it when my art tells a story.

I also like the big fat wooden water soluble crayon used for the background here.

I chose not to add water this time.

 

She was fun to draw too.

 

We went out to dinner last Friday night at a friends house and I drew my husband playing guitar and singing. I also drew two of the other male guests, but have decided not to post everything I draw.

My posts are probably way too long as they are.

 It was a fun night.

 

This fellow had an interesting shaped head. He liked my rendition of him too.

Always nice to hear.

Kate liked her portrait too.

 

Another story

 

And another true story from a Sktchy photo. Again drawn just using an ink pen.

 

Thank you for stopping by and viewing my drawings.

I appreciate it.

 

I wish you a Creative Week ahead.

 

 

Urban Sketches, Portraits and My 200th Portrait for Sktchy!

 

 

 

Today we went to Barnes & Noble Café where I drew patrons. This lady was with a guy, but he kept getting up and leaving and coming back and leaving and finally they left together. Just so you know.

 

 

She came in and ate a nice little piece of cake with her coffee and then got up and left.

But stayed long enough to draw her. I'm fast now so they don't have to stay long.

 

My husband was my next victim (or model) as he sat across the room from me drinking his coffee and reading the newspaper. I caught the guy above him too.

 

 

This couple had the honor of being the last drawing in the art journal I started in March and finished on Wednesday. April, 12, 2017. Took just a bit over one month to fill it.

 

This was a day I chose a bag of markers and crayons from my bag to use different that my usual tools. Something for variety sake.

 

Another day, another Starbucks. Long lines, oh yes, it was on Sunday last.

These guys were there too. When they got done they shook hands in a sort of knocking knuckles thing and each turned his hat the opposite direction. Not at all sure it that was significant of anything, or if it was totally unconscious acts on both of their parts. Your guess is as good as mine.

And then there are the Sktchy portraits I am doing one a night. The challenge is Sktchy30, one a day for each day in April. But I am sure I will continue it.

 

We are drawing to themes. This one was the use of a quote.

This one was "Storytelling".

 

This one was using a medium I don't generally use. So I chose water soluble pencils and pastel crayons, which I had not used in a very long time.

 

The theme here was "frustration". I thought this guy was a teenager and we all know how frustrating that can be. However, he later told me he isn't one. He looked very young in his photo.

 

Do you recognize her? She's me. Theme was "Selfie". I did three.

 

 

And my (DRUM ROLL) 200th portrait done this evening is to the them of a cause that matters to me. I chose Black Lives Matter!

This one was last week at Barnes & Noble Café.

 

And another Starbucks fellow.

And last but not least the Garden ladies, or so I dubbed them. They were really enjoying themselves and me drawing them.

That's it for me this week to date. I wish you a very Creative Week ahead. Have fun drawing, painting, creating in whatever ways you do that. HPPF too.

Thanks for coming by. Your support and encouragement keeps me drawing.

Welcome to my Week in Art

Oh dear, looked like I started out the week with a negative thought, not like me, however ...

 

You know my people have conversations and thoughts of their own!

 

I just follow them around from one coffee spot to another and let them have their say.

 

The day I was drawing these folks a man sitting next to me was leaning over trying to see what I was doing. He asked if I was sketching. I asked if he wanted to see. He looked through my entire art journal of these coffee shop cartoons and laughed and laughed. I couldn't have been given a higher compliment. I told him when he finished that I had drawn him numerous times. I even found one in my book to show him.

He shared that he was a poet and he shared a few poems he'd written that he had on his phone. He shared a bit of his life history with me too, as it made the poem make sense. He is the only child of Holocaust survivor parents and his writing depicted this is such a way to bring tears to my eyes.
It was nice meeting a landsman, someone I'd drawn before, and to find out what we had in common. (both Jewish, artists)
I'm sure we will chat again.

 

Sometimes my people have nothing to say at all.

 

I enjoy being observant and spotting interesting things and goings on.

And once in a while I pull my art journal out at other places like on this day when my car needed an oil change.

Sometimes the environment influences the talk. Like these real signs at Barnes & Noble Café.

And then there are my evenings sitting in my recliner when I find photographs on my Sktchy App that catch my eye and I sit and draw 

and color them with ink and Copic markers.

 

 

 

 

I love these people who let me draw them and it's especially heartwarming when they give me feed  back telling me they like what I've done with their photos. They are on the Sktchy App for iPhone. And some of them actually look very close to the real person. I'm getting better as I grow my drawing skills.

Guess where I am going tomorrow? To the quilt store. I haven't made a quilt in over five years. But I am going to get back to it having had a request, so I need to smarten up my skills. I hope it's like riding a bicycle and I will get back on my sewing machine and remember how to ride it.

Wishing you all a Creative Week ahead. Thanks so much for coming to see what I draw. I love your visits and comments and they truly do keep me drawing.