benten

tHE Goddess of Creativity is one of the 7 Gods of Happiness and the only women in the group. I was introduced to them by my friend Eileen who has a beautiful set given to her by her father. ... many years ago. I admired them and set out to find my own. She also gave me a set. You can SEE ALL THE entries by going up to the left hand corner of this blog and doing a "search this blog" for goddess.

Wikepedia explains them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Lucky_Gods

Daily Painting 082908

A garden at the San Diego County Fair
gouache
2.5 x 3.5 inches

Goddess of creativity

Another Goddess of Creativity

chairs

the chairs - where I went yesterday

Daily Painting 082608

Crow Raven
2.5 x 3.5 inches
mixed media

2 boxes

I have been wanting to do this for a long time. Silly but true.

a decoupaged box for my tubes of watercolor paints and one for my socks without partners.

Daily Painting 082508

chicken

gouache
2.5 x 3.5 inches

Daily Painting 082408

Chicken
2.5 x 3.5 inches
gouache on mat board

just drawing from tv

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle

This is a page of sketches I did while at the Stieglitz Exhibit earlier this week.

















Anne Brigman was a photographer. Her photographs showed the female nude in dramatic landscapes.

Pamela Coleman Smith was a watercolor artist and graphic designer. The exhibit showed a set of Tarot cards she designed and many book illustrations as well.

Alfred Stieglitz was a renowned photographer. He was married to Georgia O'Keeffe.

EDM 184 Draw a bench

this is part of a bench for Everyday Matters #184 it was drawn while in Santa Barbara last week.

Balboa Park

This is a sketch done at Balboa Park from the Sculpture Court Cafe while waiting for the San Diego Museum of Art to open.

One of the photographers in the Stieglitz group exhibit was Gertrude Kasebier. She used a lot a white and manipulated her images to give them a painterly quality. Motherhood and family was the theme in a lot of her work.

1000 Artist Journal Pages

I finally got my copy of 1000 Artist Journal Pages written by Dawn DeVries Sokol! Dawn was nice enough to include 4 of my journal pages.

If you want inspiration for journaling or just sketchbook drawing you will love this book. She also includes websites, blogs and contact information for each artist. Well done Dawn!

Vacation entry part 2

Vacation entries

I just got back from a short trip to Sequoias, Yosemite and Santa Barbara. These are a few sketchbook pages from my trip...

sketchbook

judy's

We didn't have a model today so we drew Sadie and each other.

sketchbook journal entry

Generation Kill 2

Generation Kill

Drawing while watching Generation Kill

The wire 3

watching the wire