Just sketches from today

Pricing stuff at the home improvement store.

A morning meeting.

Breakfast with my son and daughter.
This isn't them.
These are strangers drawn while waiting for my bill
AND they really weren't as sad as they look in this sketch!

EDM Challenge #121 Draw a COIN and write about it

My coin is a "buffalo" or "Indian head" nickel dated 1938. I got it when I worked in retail several years ago. We opened a roll of nickels and the entire roll was full of Indian heads. There were about 4 employees working at the time so we split them up between us. I think I just wanted them because everyone else did.



When you see a penny on the ground do you pick it up?

Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I read somewhere that when you see a penny it means the earth is trying to give something to us and we should pick it up and take it. Not to shun the gift. That's a nice thought.

I guess.

Maybe.

and then there is the saying...
See a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck.

Sketchbook Journal Entries (2)

EDM Challenge #120

Everyday Matters Challenge #120 is draw a flashlight and write about it. When I finished drawing my flashlight it was so funny to see how long and skinny it got in my sketchbook. Not so, in real life.

I keep my flashlights in the washroom because they always disappear when certain people don't put them away when they are done with them. This flashlight was not found in the washroom but on the dresser. Like socks . . . I buy flashlights quite often.

It's ok.

Rooster and Chicken ACEOS

These are my latest ACEOs on my ebay store.
Sorry to the peeps that don't like artists that sell ACEOs.
I AM a working artist and I LOVE IT!
I've done the 9-5.
Would you like to see my cartoon resume?

Click here.

It needs an amendment though.

EDM Challenge 21 Draw something Vintage

Everyday Matters Challenge #21 is
Draw something old, antique or vintage.

This 67 bug was my husband's first car.
I have had tons of breakdowns in it and have journaled about it in my sketchbook. I have shed many tears over this car, broke down, been stranded, heard many fond memories from strangers about the bug they had, made angry remarks to to my husband about it and also laughed and enjoyed driving it. Me and this car have a love/hate relationship.

This is my 67 bus. I bought it when I was young because my boyfriend loved it. How silly was that? Now he is my husband and he has a 67 collection because he has a 67 Karmen Ghia too. Luckly I don't have to drive them any more, but I have to admit they are kind of cute.

I love this man!

This muffler man stands on a street corner in Escondido, CA.
I finally stopped and took a picture
because I know one day he will leave.
These type of structures are becoming extinct!

Graduation Day

Graduation from physical therapy that is!

I was a passenger while drawing
the cars and trucks on the freeway...I wasn't driving at the time!

Sketching Everyone I know #7

Ned

EDM Challenge #37 Draw some keys

These are my keys and EDM Challenge number 37.
I got to draw them today while working
on a thank you card for my nephew.
He sent me this cow key ring that moos when I press the udders!

NCSFA Sketch and Paint Out - Private Garden

The sketch and paint out was at a
private garden in Escondido, California.
A nice couple lent us their property for the morning and
about 6 ladies from the North County Society of Fine Arts
took pictures and painted.

There was a lot to see in different parts of the 4 acres
that surrounded their home;
including cottages, a fairy garden,
a few waterfalls, ponds, fish and tons of flowers and plants.

Postage

Too bad. Postage goes up to 41 cents.

Sketchbook Journal Entries.

Sketching Everyone I know #6

EDM 109 Draw a Clock You Have Around the House

My kitchen clock.

Rooster and Chicken

I did another ACEO of a rooster and chicken.

It's been fun but I haven't been doing any larger painting lately
. . . usually I have one going at all times.
The entrance to my art room is getting a little blocked up!
SOLD

Dumb Sketch

EDM #118 and Sketching Everyone I Know #5

Today I did Everyday Matters Challenge #118, Draw Some Hair
and I also did Sketching Everyone I Know, #5.

Remembrance

I went to a remembrance picnic for someone I didn't know very well
but was still pretty special.

I knew it wasn't "proper" to sketch the people but it's a habit.

Under the weather

Maybe it was because I turned 56. . . naw. . .
it was a happy birthday.
Here is my slogan for this year.

My kids said I made up a song for my 55th birthday but I think they're wrong.

Roosters

Dog the Bounty Hunter

I like him.

Chicken

Some art cards I did today.

Art Walk San Diego 2007

When I got home from Art Walk and reviewed my pictures of the day, they were of the surrounding art walk area. Maybe I got a little tired of looking at art, maybe it was the harbor breeze or (true confessions) maybe I was pretending to be a photographer.

Beautiful Pipes

A cute bungalow

The breakfast chair.

The tin man.
(a real man acting like a statue, poor thing)

Murals and Musicians

I wanted my picture taken under the little Italy sign but something happened
um . . . . or didn't happen

EDM #94 Draw a Spoon

Draw a spoon and journal a little about it.

Sketching Everyone I Know #4

Eileen

EDM Challenge 115 - Draw a shopping cart

Just a shopping cart.

Sketching everyone I know #3

Teri

Friends Forever

2 of my great friends came over this weekend.
1 from Arizona and the other from Los Angeles.

Great times great memories!
I have known them aboooooooout 40 years.

Practicing Lawn Bowls

A few sketches from the last few days. The top drawings were done from TV.
Today I practiced my lawn bowls.
Drawing them, not playing them.

2 Rodeo Aceos done today

Bareback riding event

Team roping event.

Today I worked on 2 ACEOs both done in watercolor and ink on 140 lb watercolor paper. Watching an artist DVD is like visiting an art show. For me, it is pure motivation. Last night I saw a DVD on Al Hirshfeld, a caricature cartoonist. Constantly drawing, carrying his sketchbook around, and working daily. Why do artists draw and paint? I don't know, I think we just have to.

Bocce Ball vs Lawn Bowls

Bocce ball and lawn bowls are quite similar but I also noted a lot of differences when I attended a bocce ball tournament today. I went to draw and take reference photos but came home with just a few sketches. I don't know much about either game but here are a few differences I noted from my OBSERVATIONS today.

1. Lawn Bowlers wear their whites during tournaments, bocce people don't
2. It's usually kind of quite at a lawn bowls tournament. I find it relaxing. The Bocce tournament I went to was not very quiet.
3. Lawn Bowls is played with a white "jack". This Bocce tournament had a tennis ball at every game. I think it was meant to serve the same purpose as the jack.
4. The majority of the lawn bowlers I have seen are "seniors", very cute, respectable looking citizens. Bocce players were all ages with the majority looking 30-early 50s.
5. The bocce tournament had great music, I have never heard music during lawn bowling tournaments.
6. Lawn bowls games use a lot more balls. This bocce used about 3 or four for each team. I think.

Well that's from an observer not a player.

From the tournament.
On the right are high school kids playing the electric drums.
The music was very enjoyable. I was the only one that clapped though.