I CAN NOW POST VIDEOS???

This is a little movie I made quite a few years ago when we were visiting my mother at her assisted living facility.

where have I been???

I can't believe it's been over a year since I last posted. That doesn't mean I haven't been doin' stuff, it just means I've haven't done anything worth publishing or maybe it's been too big to publish or something like that.

another contribution for no one

NEW SCHEDULE

I've rearranged my schedule to make room for drawing and painting. Instead of going to the gym at lunch I go to the library instead. I look for books with interesting (to me) pictures and I grab desk with side panels and draw and paint for about an hour.
The bottom drawings are from a book about local houses that have been saved from the wrecking ball. Both of these houses are in the neighborhood where I grew up. I'm not always in favor of "preserving history" but they make for nice images to draw.

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I just wanted to take a simple shape with one color to do a value study.

This is one of my daughters toys placed on a kitchen towel. I walked away from this still life for a few minutes and someone thoughtfully put it away while I was gone.

Someone from the newspaper

This is a toy that my wife has on her dresser. It's from the movie, "Monsters Inc.". I wanted to depict a model of a charactor and have it retain it's plastic attributes. If that makes any sense to any one.

An Apache buckskin cap found in the book, "500 Nations" by Alvin Josephy. I lost the contrast and started using prisma pencils to dig myself out of the mud. I'm using a small moleskin watercolor sketchbook and I'm falling off the page because I'm not planning for the small surface.

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