Life is Good!

It's hard to know what problems my people will encounter in any given week. This week was full of them. Take the biker and the redhead, who could not believe the other was truly interested in them:

 

 

Or this husband, who couldn't get his wife to sit still and listen to him.

Or the gal on her laptop, who had already written one Dear John letter a week ago ...

... The  younger sister, who just wanted a little reassurance, but big sister wasn't going to help with that!

... or those infernal long lines at Starbucks! Where waiting is the name of the game!

But this one really took the prize! The two lovers were fine, but then unseen here was this other guy who came in with flowers for a different women, who wouldn't look up from her phone to receive them. From my vantage point it looked like "apology flowers" for what I can only guess at, and she was not in the mood to accept his apology! He finally left. Don't know what happened to the flowers.

On a lighter and more positive note this daughter was appreciative of her mom's help with her homework.

Some days were rather uneventful, just he usual waiting in line and chatting.

We went to another town and a café near the court house, where lawyers and jury members and such hang out. I found this couple of interest.

And I always start and end my week on Thursdays at Barnes & Noble Café where regulars and newbies hang out doing their thing, the red table is the giveaway.

And then there is my evening at home art done in my recliner off my iPhone on the Sktchy  App.
A fun way to draw faces. I look for expressions and emotions when I can.

 

I love drawing all of these people. As you can see the most recent is #181. I've almost filled two art journals with Sktchy folks. Bought the next one today to be ready to continue.

 

I hope you are having a Creative week and I wish you another coming up. My life is full of drawing, digging in dirt/starting my spring/summer garden, and something I haven't done in a very long time, years, sewing.

 

Thanks for coming by and know that your comments keep 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.

 

My Crazy MIxed up Week

 

WELCOME to my blog this week. I load photos from my iPhone using a Blogger App because all my photos are now on my phone; it's a slow process and it gives me lots of headaches (error messages, "try again") But here I am and here they are, NOT in the order they were drawn this time, but here nonetheless.

 

Drawings  #1  #2 and  #3 were all drawn today at Barnes & Noble Café.

 

The two ladies in the first drawing are regulars. I overheard their conversation while greeting a third woman momentarily, and heard said something to the effect that told me they were all "Writers"! So NOW I know what they have been up to all these months that I have observed them working together there on their computers. I have drawn both of these two many times before. You may even recognize them by now.

 

 

 

These two guys are also a couple I have drawn numerous times before as well. I am sure they now recognize me too. I have no idea if they realize I am drawing them or not.

And these two guys were new to me. I haven't got a clue what they were doing, but it looked like work.

My eye was drawn to all the gardening books behind them, as you can see.
I have become an avid gardener myself since this past summer and our new landscaping.

Meanwhile I am also continuing to draw from the Sktchy App on my iPhone. I like drawing from those photos of people. It's fun when they see my renditions of themselves and tell me they like them.

I did both of these portraits last night sitting in my recliner in front of the TV.

The day before we were in Starbucks in Dixon where I saw these two women chatting away.

Drawers License allows me to put words in their mouths and thoughts in their heads.

 



And this woman, who had extreme hair was begging to be drawn.

 It was truly mind boggling HIGH!

The night before last I drew a few more Sktchy folks.

 

Earlier in the week I drew this handsome fellow. He really liked it.

And this guy had a distorted photo of himself much like a distorted photo I had of my self so I drew us both as a couple. He said we were  "cute".

 

Back at Starbucks on a different day these two lovely young ladies were busy at their laptops.

And this woman had a tall orange knit cap that caught my eye.

This fellow was busy blending into the background.

These two women were actually at the same table talking to each other, but sometimes I miss place a person on my page so they get their own separate table.

 

Another Sktchy person, who I think I got a very good likeness of. I don't often do that, but am pleased that this time I did. I guess it can happen.

 

Another day another Starbucks in town this time, was busy.

More Sktchy models. I have drawn her twice before. I am mesmerized by her look.

 

Vin is on Sktchy too and I've drawn him before from different photos. He was one of our teachers in Sketchbook Skool.

Speaking of which, they have a brand new klass for beginner drawers for people who think they can't draw, but would like to learn. Basic stuff, and I'm taking it, as I never really learned basics before. I just draw what I see. But feel I can learn new tricks. It's called Drawing for People who Think they have NO Talent.

Check it out at SketchbookSkool.com and it's only $29 for 26 videos

with Danny Gregory.

 

This was in another town in another Starbucks.

 

She liked my portrait of her too.

 

 

Last week at Barnes and Noble Café (these photos were meant to be at the top of this post, but due to the error messages, etc. they made it to the bottom) No matter.

It was the day after Thanksgiving. We did NOT go shopping.

Just out for coffee and drawing and then home again.

I loved this woman's tights. They were shiny and bright and did look like a mosaic of fish fins to me.

 

She was showing off photos on her phone to another woman.

 

There's the other woman with grey hair and they were joined by a third woman.

These gals were there too, but sitting behind them on the next level up on high stools and table.

The Dinosaur is a friend on the wall behind them.

Ah, this was drawn at a fast food joint we went into because my husband's blood sugar level was down and he needed a food boost before getting to our Thanksgiving Day destination.

 

Another happy Sktchy person.

 

Back at the Dixon Starbucks on another day.

 

And here ...

 

and here ...

Last, but not least, we were in Winters, CA for lunch at the El Pueblo Meat Market on yet another day. We are busy getting out and about on purpose to get me places and people to draw. It works for me.

 

Thank YOU for coming by and visiting my blog. Your visits and comments keep me drawing.

Hope to see you all next week again.