Fifteen of My Favorites From This Week

I found some neon markers at the thrift store and went crazy over using the yellow one! Glad there were a lot of blonds out this week where I was drawing!

And they each had their story to tell ...

*yes I am

These ladies below were more in the grey haired realm (as am I) so I stuck to water soluble Woody Stabilo crayons and water brush. Perhaps some Tom Bow markers as well.

My online friend, Darlene Campbell, challenged me to get more creative from my imagination, so I added lines (actually one line was a mistake, which I used to create more lines like water and added fish from my imagination. The people were in this pose on the SKTCHY APP. See what I mean by
THERE ARE NO MISTAKES IN ART?

More drawing at Starbucks ...

* something my husband might say



and more Sktchy folks ...

... and more opportunities to use that Yellow Neon Marker again!!!

... and again! They were all of 99 cents for three. I like when little things can bring me so much joy!



And three more Sktchy People begging to be drawn. I love this nightly ritual of drawing portraits from photos people post there. I'm very pleased with all of these.

Now it's time to wish YOU a creative week ahead,

and to thank you for dropping by and letting me know

what you think of all this drawing!

May happiness and good health rain down upon you.

Artists Love Attention!

Hi,

Welcome back or welcome for the first time, which ever the case, I'm glad to welcome you to my blog.

I continue to draw every day, and evening; I am no longer posting every single drawing I do, but almost. I also post on Facebook and in several artist's FB groups such as Sketchbook Skool, Everyday Matters, Artist's Journal Workshop, Urban Sketchers (group), Sketchbookers Society and I Love Creative Lettering. Oh, and Sketchbook Skool: A Drawing a Day, and on the Sktchy App on my iPhone.

So my art gets seen by many. I love the attention and responses it receives. I am sure every artist likes to have their work appreciated. And it's fun to share, to get inspiration from other artists, encouragement, all of which keeps me drawing.

Here we were last Thursday at Barnes & Noble Café. Interesting that I drew a woman with good hair last week and again this week there (see one of the last drawings on this thread)
I guess being a thin haired person I am drawn to others with full heads of luscious hair. A little green with envy perhaps.

I imagined these women as being best friends since childhood or maybe sisters even:

This is Lynne, a woman I met on line, who draws in urban environments like I do. She's also on Sktchy so I drew her portrait there this week.

These gals were all at Starbucks ... where I go to draw most of the days of the week.

I really enjoyed drawing Jonathan from Sktchy too. And the background was great fun as well.
I like how it sort of makes him pop off the page!

Haylee saw my art on Sktchy and asked me to draw her so I did. I don't know that she's seen it yet.

 

I finished another Travelers Pentalic art journal this week. That always feels like such an accomplishment, although I am finishing up about one a month or darn close to it.

This was a good day in another way too.  A woman sitting next to me at a table big enough for four saw me drawing and said something about it. I asked if she wanted to see more and she nodded affirmatively, so I handed her my almost finished sketchbook. She sat and looked at every single drawing (that way over 100 pages) and she smiled and laughed her way through it, stopped to compliment me over and over again. Needless to say, it was a very enjoyable experience for me.
(I can still remember when I was terrified to draw in public)

Sktchy folks are all about originality in posting interesting photos of themselves for others to draw. I like to find the ones with a bit of a challenge.

 

That said, Rebecca was such fun to draw. I added the dialogue myself.

She liked it. So did a lot of other people. Many said they saw themselves in this one.

 

Bam-Bam says he's an artist from California (like I am) ... I wonder if I'll meet him one day?

See, here is the second woman, second week in a row  at Barnes & Noble Café with a very full head of hair. If only!

 

 

 

And this guy with his tattooed arms that kept changing positions. I got two of them.

I drew these guys yesterday at Starbucks. This fellow is an artist too (on the left) with his service dog.
He wasn't doing any art today, just talking to the guy with the big bushy beard.

And finally just to prove moving people can't keep themselves from being drawn I got the guy below twice, first where he sat originally and second when he moved further away in the back of the room. (on the same couch those other two above vacated before he came in.)

 

I can't seem to get under this last picture to write my good byes for the week. But again, thanks for coming by and know that your comments keep me drawing. I wish you a very Creative Week ahead. Hope to see you here next week!

 

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.

 

 

"LOVE" from artist friend Jessica Sporn and my weekly drawings and portraits

I have been fortunate to meet a multitude of artists from all the world from on line klasses and Facebook art groups as well. This first piece of art here is NOT mine, but that of the wonderful artist, Jessica Sporn. Jessica's art adorns my walls, table tops and bookshelves. When she recently posted this on Valentine's Day and said we could share it I decided to share it with my blog visitors. I hope you take a minute to read within the letters. Jessica is not only a verbal activist for peace, but an ACTIVE one too. She goes every year to Guatemala where she helps build houses for families in need, and has adopted families to continue to help beyond the roof over their heads. I admire her greatly. Check out her website as her art is stunning.

 

And now for MY ART: My week in reverse, as I drew these folks at Barnes & Noble Café today!

 

These ladies were chatting about the books they were reading. Maybe they were a book club of two.

I love this one. (Can I say that?) I have drawn the woman on the left multiple times. I think she knows I draw her, but she's never approached me. I sit across the room from her, but directly across, and it is not all that far. I drew the other woman first, who was in the corner. Not her friend, who came later.
Oh, check out the first of MY drawings above and find her and her friend she works with here in the bottom half of that double page spread. Her friend is sitting next to her there all in black.

 

 

These guys looked like they were crowding each other from my perspective!

Yesterday we were at Starbucks where these people were chatting away. And the guys on the right sorted out their space problem.

I love the idea of older people getting back into dating. Don't know why. I am sure this is really a happily married couple, however, I liked giving them a different life. Silly me.

This gal come in and just stood at the table for awhile. Long enough for me to draw her there.

 

 
Finally she took a seat.




And eventually she was joined by two other women and you can see them chatting below.

Last Sunday, I am so glad I sometimes put the days on my drawings, we were at the same Starbucks.
These people were in their own worlds. I have no idea what they were thinking.



I love this little family. They were together, yet each busy doing her own thing. Mom in front and two daughters all at separate tables. I have seen mom there often in some work capacity talking with other adults. I smiled at her on their way out and she gave me the nicest smile. Perhaps she recognized me as well.






These three sat for a second or two and then got up quickly and left. I was pretty sure the woman on the far left knew I was drawing and maybe thought it might be her, which it was. Anyway, I may have frightened them away.



Another day, another Starbucks. They sat right across from me, but I don't think they had a clue what I was doing, they  were so busy with their own devices. And then two other women arrived and they put down the  phone and laptop and were in deep conversation all four.



 I drew them and then we left to go grocery shopping, and guess what? So did they. As we were checking out they were coming in to the same grocery store. Small world. No words were exchanged. My  husband is always so surprised when I tell him who was where and how I "know them". He is always reading and not paying a bit of attention to who is around us. I, on the other hand, grow to know them intimately. Or so it seems.

 

This may have been the same day. Two sisters, one annoying the other.

 

Sometimes it's fun to draw in black and white and just leave it that way.

 

And other times it's fun to switch to colored pencils that change colors as you turn them in your hand.

And then I drew quite diligently using the Sktchy App on my iPhone. I love my Sktchy People too.

This is a drawing of me done by another Sktchy Artist, Judy Novak. I think she did a great likeness of me, don't you? Thank you again Judy.

And this week was significant in that I completed yet another at journal full of my out and about drawings of people in  public places, like these below:

And I wish you all a Creative Week ahead. Thanks for coming by. Know full well that your visits and comments

keep me drawing!