Gibbs (Grey Tabby Cat) Modeled, 3


Laughing!
Gibbs likes a good joke!

To make your Monday more bearable!

I cannot lie.  He was yawning and I caught it on the camera.

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Our Grey Tabby Gibbs Modeled, 2


I think he  looks a bit like a pig in this one….
He is a handsome cat, not a pig!
He did not want me to post this one.
curled into his favorite chair, the Del Rey Monterey rocker.

.Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,  Taccia black (a god ink) when I thought I had
Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges, Sennelier,
Da Vinci, Holbein, DS Primatek watercolors, and Daniel Smith Watercolors.

 

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Gibbs (Grey Tabby Cat) Modeled, 1


HE DOES LOVE HIS FOOD…

Kibble.  He does not get it all the time as he porks up too much on it.
When he gets what he wants he always comes to rub against us to tell us
how very much he appreciates it before settling into a kibble stupor.

And Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Panthercat: Yamantaka Loves His Daddy!

I see this view nightly,
Yamantaka with his head resting on Mitchell’s leg.


Usually about the time I try to sketch him,
he is on the run.  I swear, he can be asleep and realize
I am sketching and walk away.


So I took a picture.
My iPhone is faster than his realization!


In reality he is black as night,
but I have never learned to capture that so
he is portrayed as dark brown or grey!

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VSW: Washington Irving’s Home NY

Virtual Sketchwalk group on FaceBook went to upstate New York
to paint Washington Irving’s home (the author of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.)

From scribbles to watercolor, the finished product
didn’t please me; I like the scribbled version better.

I think I should have stayed loose and not go literal.

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VSW: Christmas Tree Montpellier

From the Virtual Sketchwalk group on Facebook,
We walked Montpellier, France,
and in one of the malls was this Christmas Tree many stories high.


So festive and lively, I tried it two different ways.
I don’t know what the gold streaming parts were,
just long strands of gold shimmering.

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Blue Posies


Spring is coming!
And the Full Moon!

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VSW: Disaster Sketching the Lyndhurst Mansion

I wanted to tackle this image from our
Virtual Sketchwalk group on FaceBook.

This is a lesson in positive critique…


I want to paint the light.
I’m a novice.
Nothing wrong with being a novice…

But dang how to paint this light?


Oh gads, NOOOOOO, this did not work…
Not even for the low expectations of this novice!
I have a red ghost tree in front of the haunted mansion!

  1. Okay, the windows are too dark, that is making it odd.
  2. The bloody red transparent tree doesn’t work.
  3. I need to add more trees in the foreground (even though there weren’t more).
  4. The trees on the horizon are fine.
  5. The lawn would’ve been okay but I was giving up at that point, still, not bad.


Someone suggested I put some linework in to “save” it, and it helped.

But the whole point of the image was to try to paint the light.


This is my finished piece.
I want to move on, but still my critique:

  1. The balance between window and building walls is better.
  2. The red tree is soooo much better, but everything is still very solid.
  3. I liked my distant trees better in the last image.
  4. I like the sky, shows movement and possible clouds.
  5. Shadow way too dark.
  6. The lawn area is about the same, so okay, neutral.
  7. And I did better with the light streaming in but still, no cigar… I still don’t like it.

Sometimes, one has to move on.
If this were an image of one of our cats or something/someone I loved I might keep at it,
but this is a group I play in and so I am going to let go of this one and go to the next!

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VSW: Montpellier Carousel

Debi posted this just for me!


A carousel in Montpellier, France,
from our Virtual Sketchwalk group on FaceBook,
All glitter and bright colors and oh wow!


Started with a line drawing, fairly fast sketch.

Decided to show it with a flash and no flash,
because it shows different aspects fo the sketch.

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USk: Falling Snow

I gave it a shot, painting the snow falling under the light from the window in our studio.
Everything was sooo dark, but the falling snow popped.

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My Old Man’s a Sailor


I sing My Old Man’s a Sailor daily…
Written by Oscar brand, and as I loved it I learned about him.
It’s my happy song.  I heard Tom Petty sing it in a video on IG
(and dang I can’t find it now).

I posted this on IG long ago and tagged #oscarbrand,
and his daughter found me and we had a nice exchange.

The Smother’s Brother’s is the only video I can find:

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VSW: Rosebowl Parade

THIS SHOWS HOW LONG SINCE I’VE HAD TIME TO POST!
Okay, too, after working (our biz) I’ve had a cold and was too tuckered out.

During the Rose Bowl Parade this one float caught my eye.


The bear did nothing for me — it was all about the dragon!

He was my first entry into a larger A4 Hahnemühle Watercolour Journal
to start the New Year off; little did I know how little time I’d have.

Nice memory of watching the parade with Mitchell.

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VSW: French Country House

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Playing on our FaceBook group Virtual Sketchwalk,
I loved this image — woudl want to live here in teh South of France!

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Kill Winter With Orange!

“Kill Winter With Orange is an winter tradition that’s been happening for many years!
I love it because I love ORANGE!

I penned the inks below with a dip pen:


Birmingham inks are not usually feathering inks but WOW Relative Cadmium feathered!

My favorites are Robert Oster Orange and Diamine Pumpkin!

What’s your favorite orange?

PS I’ve been gone a long time from posting….
long boring story but happy to be back at it.

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Kakimori: Golf Palms at Night


Getting the hang of the Kakimori nib!

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Posies: Cherry Blossoms


“I cannot go out tonight.
Tonight everything scares me.
Blossoming insanely are cherry treees
and I don’t know how to blossom like that.”
~ Imants Ziedonis, Latvian Poet.

Watercolor of cherry blossoms in a Handbook Journal.

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VSW: IM Pei, Louvre, France


This was sketched quickly in waterproof inks.

A lot of controversy surrounded the Pyramid in front of the Louvre, by I.M.Pei.
I have some of those trepidations myself, but it has grown on me.
It was created to allow for a more gracious and less crowded
entry to the Louvre, and having waited to enter before the Pyramid was built,
I can see how this was a good idea.
Note; The link I gave you in Wikipedia compares this to
others created since, and I had to laugh when they
listed the hole in Portland.  NOT comparable.

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Kakimori: OM

I continue to play with my Kakimori nibbed pens.
I now have both the brass and the steel nibs.
I love being able to change ink colors quickly by dipping,
yet they hold more ink than a dip pen.

My Om stays on my bedside when I am not wearing it,
and I slip my wedding ring on it when I have to take it off (arthritis).

Writing and images done with the Kakimori nib.


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