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.

 

Lots of Drawings Each Week Has Become my Norm!

 This is where we left off last week, and so here we are on a Thursday at Barnes & Noble Café where I will draw who ever is sitting across from me. Sometimes I even move around the room to get everyone.

I realize I am sneaking this guy in from the day before at Starbucks. Remember the couple I drew and I made them a "Hook Up"/Meet UP for the first time? This is the guy calling the woman before she arrived. (or so I decided) ...

Now we are back at Barnes & Noble Café. She was eating breakfast...

                        ... and the couple on the left was excited about something they are reading together,

... and the guys on the right are not together. The guy with the cane was with two people who did not make it into his drawing, the other fellow was minding his own business sitting on a high stool behind him.

Now we are at Starbucks on a different day. I was sitting clear across the room from this group. I decided from what I could see that the red head was selling something to the other two ... maybe getting them to become sellers too? I am not positive. The gal facing us is taking notes! No one is paying much attention to the baby. But he's okay. I kept an eye on him.

The woman on the left here is busy on her phone and you can see if you squint a bit that her hand goes up and down! Watch carefully.
The guy is very excited about what's on his laptop. Maybe he won the lottery for all I know!

These friends talked a long time. One was very concerned for her friends comfort, as the weather is changing here and we are finally getting some much needed rain!

I thought this picture was going to be very boring, until I noticed people coming from all directions to check out this little adorable puppy one guy had. See all the clicking camera phones in the bottom right corner. Later the guy went outside with the tiny dog running after him and it was so cute. I was afraid someone might not see him and step on him. He was that small.

 

I decided that these girls were sisters and possibly twins. They were so animated and cute!

It was fun drawing them.

 

 

 

On Sunday this group of regulars shows up at a different Starbucks, one I go to by myself sometimes.

I enjoy drawing them and do it sitting at the very next table. They are so into their

conversations they have no clue what I am doing.

 

She is in that group and was even closer to me than the others.

She was waiting her turn at the big table and finally got in as others drifted off to parts unknown.

 

 
It was a kick seeing these two women playing cards. It wasn't my favorite game of
Spite and Malice, but I drew that anyway. They have way more piles of cards on the table. I should have asked what they were playing, but I was more interested in capturing it in my art journal.
They weren't making very much noise!
Not like when I play Spite and Malice with my brother!
 


A different day, a different Starbucks... I like writing cartoons!

 ... and telling stories about people I do not know!

 

Like theses ...

 

 

and these, both of whom I have drawn before!!!

 Okay, it's time for a Sketchbook Skool ANNOUNCEMENT! A NEW KLASS IS STARTING ON Friday THIS WEEK! YOU NEED TO SIGN UP NOW AS THE KLASS WILL CLOSE AFTER IT STARTS ON FRIDAY! It's called "Expressing" and has six very cool international teachers teaching six different klasses. If you haven't ever taken a Sketchbook Skool Klass now is the time to start.

It's art for all. Doesn't matter what your level of experience. You start where YOU are in each klass and go from there. It's such an adventure and so much FUN!!! It has truly changed my life in amazingly wonderful ways.

Danny Gregory and Koosje Koane are the headmasters/founders of SBS. They get artists from around the world to be teachers and they teach too. Check it out at www.Sketchbook Skool.com (click here).
You will not be disappointed. The fee for the klass breaks down to about $2 a klass! It's so worth the money. Anyway, it would be great so see some of you here. Or All OF YOU!

I wouldn't be drawing as much or as well as I am if it weren't for Sketchbook Skool!

This was yesterday at Starbucks!!!!!!!!!!!! AS was the picture above!

If you follow me here you know that in January I decided to do a Selfie every day. It's partly because we are doing it at the blog I co host with Ann Hyde:  Paper, Paint, Pencils & Pens . But I may just continue...

It's helping me deal with my aging process ...

Some days are easier than others ...

I try to maintain a sense of humor about it!

Depending on the angle I catch myself at or whether it's in a mirror (above) or a photo (below)
different parts get more press!

I really like these distorted app drawings. This one is the "fish bowl" look. I think it becomes me!

And some look more like how I think I really look than others.

Not every day is a good drawing day! There are situations that cause a day to be less good than another and these are a few examples.

All in all it's been a very prolific week for me! I also drew for Every Day in January to prompts but decided to let you off the hook from those or you'd be here all day long.

Thanks so much for hanging out this long and for stopping by. I love your visits and your comments. They really do keep me drawing. I wish YOU a very CREATIVE WEEK! See you next week, and I hope to see you in Sketchbook Skool too! That would be so KOOL!