posemainiacs

These drawings are on tissue paper. I used Elmer's glue stick to glue a beige tissue paper on top of an encyclopedia page. The tissue paper came when my anniversary flowers were delivered (the tissue paper kept the vase from shaking around in the box it was held in).

 I sketched from posemanics.com with a felt tip marker but the Elmer's glue served as a resist so it didn't go on very well. I used black marker and gray marker for the shading but you can't really tell.

I used children's watercolor to color around the figures, it drys very chalky looking and it's a different color when it is wet.

Hotel Del Coronado Corner of RH Dana and Orange Avenue, Coronado

Evan's Pond at Scripps Ranch Library 2015

Evan's Pond

This is a work in progress started at the San Diego Watercolor Society at Evan's Lake by Scripps Ranch Library. It was a muggy morning and I had a hard time finding a subject that "moved" me! I will continue to focus on separating the tree masses with watercolor pencil. 

Viking in oil pastel

This oil pastel sketch is 6 x 6 inches. I worked on gessoed paper from a reference photo I took while at the Vista Viking Festival 2015.

Viking

Practicing watercolor from a photo taking at the Viking Festival in Vista last month.

Mermaid and Goddess

some sketches done while visiting my friend Kathy.

Spanish Village

This watercolor of an area in Spanish Village was painted on gessoed paper. It was very frustrating because the paint just sits on top of the paper. I repeat the same mistakes by thinking I can be successful using this method. It doesn't work.

DOORS of Spanish Village.

Culvier Park, La Jolla September 2015

Viking watercolor sketch

Still life and 2 vikings

Practicing watercolor with a still life set up on my kitchen table and painting vikings from photographs I took at the Vista Viking Festival this weekend.

Vista Viking Festival 2015

The Vista Viking Festival was held in Norway Hall in San Diego this weekend. We enjoyed watching bread, weapons, coins and lefse being made. This is one of the men I enjoyed watching and sketching.

Viking Battle at Vista Viking Festival 2015

Vista Viking Festival 2015

someone sleeping

someone sleeping

Discovery Lake, San Marcos

A lake in San Marcos with hiking and running trails. Painting plein air with the San Diego Plein Air Painters.

Sculpture Court, Balboa Park

Wave Crest Woodie Meet, Moonlight Beach, Encinitas

My watercolor on Canson Watercolor Board created at the Wave Crest Woodie Meet in Encinitas today.

Carved and Whittled Sculpture - American Folk Art

Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park

Plaza de Panama, china marker on encyclopedia page

Tulips on gessoed paper

The quotes were glued on an encyclopedia page. I gessoed around the quotes and intended to watercolor after drawing the flowers with the brush pen. I stopped painting after I remembered how frustrating it is trying to lay watercolor on gessoed paper.

Rancho Santa Fe Administration Building

This is my watercolor sketch and view from the Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club.

Del Mar Horse Park

These sketches were done at Del Mar Horse Park during the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse event.

The Rattlesnake Incident

Rattle Snake in Poway September 2015

Heat Wave

Sleeping in

Presidio Park, San Diego

The road in front of the Serra Museum in Presidio Park.

Sketching at Spanish Village in Balboa Park

This sketch was done on an Ampersand Clay Board.

This is a watercolor on a light weight Bristol Board with watercolor.

A 2 minute Lydeo showing the other artists work and parts of Spanish Village.

Dinner at BJ's

Have a nice day if you want to.

My friend Jim says this...

Weather report

Moleskine Cahier Journal, Sketchbook Flip May/June 2015

Life drawing

life drawing in Ramona, #figure drawing, brush pen, china marker and stabilo

San Clemente Pier

I got to meet with my oldest best friend, her daughter, and grandson in San Clemente today. A fun day with an 8 month old baby boy.

stay in reality collage

Oceanside Village, Oceanside Harbor

 I sat at the harbor early this morning sketching the village. The only thing moving this was a fishing boat taking off from the dock.

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park, August 2015

A "Lydeo" of our outing at the Zoro Garden.

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park, San Diego

The Zoro Garden is a sunken stone grotto garden that was designed as a nudist colony during the 1935 California-Pacific Exposition it is now a butterfly garden. I was there sketching with friends this morning.

Changing sheets ALONE

Jurogin

Laguna Beach Festival of Arts DAY TRIP August 2015

a 2:51 minute video of the day trip with Ella

Hamburger Factory Condiments

Trying my new brush pencil i ordered from Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Watercolor of condiments on gessoed sketch paper.

Old Poway Park, Poway, CA

Old Poway in front of Porter House and the park office. Watercolor on gessoed sketch paper.

Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego

Day 4 of watercolor practice. This was done from a photo taken while on a meetup with the San Diego Urban Sketchers Meetup group. Watercolor on sketch paper.

Patio View

It's going to be a hot day today. I am staying home and did my daily sketch early.

View from my kitchen patio.

webb park rancho bernardo

Meet and Greet 3rd Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketch Crawl, Augus...