Compared to what it can sometimes be.
It is starting to feel like the end of the school year. My AP students are finishing their journals, and I drew in one of them. I can't believe another batch of them are graduating soon, leaving me with the hope that they have learned at least as much as I have taught them.
Pigma Micron 05 and watercolor in yellow-ish journal.
Our backyard this afternoon. It's about time I have drawn it -- as it sat in a state of renovation for the past couple of summers. Tom built us a garage, a pergola and a back porch -- and now there is talk of an outdoor fireplace.
Pigma Micron 05 + watercolor in sketchbook.
Tonight I tried to draw the disgustingly talented Paul Heaston, whose drawings I have been drooling over for a while.
2B pencil and some of that really neat white pencil that I had bought in Belgium.
I have been driving home from work through farm country for the past five years and have wanted to draw some landscape. Not quite, though, because landscapes bore me to tears -- so rather, some farms. I drive by horse farms that I wish I could do justice. Here is the first one I did. It's a little busy, so I have to learn to refrain from overdoing the drawing.
Pigma Micron 05 in sketchbook.
The Lada Niva, y'all. I might have taken a bit of artistic liberty by coloring it orange, since this model came (at least when my uncle bought one, in the early nineties) only in two colors: red or white. I've always loved the design of that 4x4 and how unapologetically huge it looked on the roads in France when I was a kid. Still love it. Wonder if it comes with bluetooth now.
Pigma Micron 08 (which kept leaking) and watercolor in my new watercolor Moleskine.
Plume/feather, yes, we speak franglais at our house to the point of mixing our vowels. As I was getting dinner ready, Nora was playing with two feathers she had found today. We both sat down and drew a bit before I finished making dinner. The little blood stains at the bottom right are from a little cut I had made on my hand while cooking.
Pilot V5 pen and white pencil on construction paper.
My daughter had a renewed interest in her cheap little recorder today, and when we sat down to do a little bit of drawing at the kitchen table, it was sitting next to us. I had bought this Earthbound ® sketchbook about 6 years ago but only used a couple of pages.
Lately, I have been looking at a lot of Dürer drawings. Learning, always learning.
Pigma Micron 08 with Crayola markers and white crayon.
I have been drawing so much lately, but keeping everything under wraps until it gets published in a few months as part of the book I have been working on. In the meantime, I am posting my iPad doodles and an occasional... lady: a Renault 12, probably mid-seventies, the kind I used to see in my childhood. I used to think it was so damn ugly, and now I marvel at its coolness.
Pigma Micron 08 after a first draft in pencil + watercolor in watercolor Moleskine.
Another few stolen minutes at the end of my prep at school to draw what was in front of me. Yvonne and I have been sharing this office since September and have turned it into a pretty comfortable work space, complete with a couch found on Craigslist.
Paper app for the iPad.
The auditorium of our school during today's faculty meeting. Not much time to worry about the seats.
Paper app for the iPad.
More stuff lying around, more doodling on the Paper app, which I seem to favor over Procreate these days. Not sure why.
No time to draw -- just a doodle here, stealing a minute or two and ending up with unfinished lines that only I can recognize. Which is OK because I am the only one seeing them in the first place.
This looks finished compared to those. Paper app for the iPad.
Sitting in the parking lot of the supermarket tonight, while Tom was running in to get last-minute groceries, I whipped out the iPad and tried to do an inside-the-car drawing. I had not done that in years. I had to be quick because I knew Tom was probably going to go through the "10 items or LESS" checkout -- only Whole Foods seem to get their grammar right by the way.
Paper app for the iPad.
For the sixth year, Dr. Michael Fowlin was giving a talk in front of the Freshman class at our school today. It was a presentation full of laughs, punctuated by moments of deep silence. Even though I had seen him a handful of times before, today was probably a tad more personal.
I have been trying to draw bigger spaces around me -- and this was my attempt to fit a portion of the auditorium in my Evernote Moleskine.
Pigma Micron 05.
This is one of those many, many sketches done near the end of the evening, before getting the last load of laundry, sitting in front of the TV without watching it, trying to capture the new layout of the living room with the pocket doors closed (and that's a towel underneath them, to keep the cold air out).
Trying to draw fast, without laboring too much over details. Paper app for the iPad.
Five minutes here and there, that's all I had to steal a couple of doodles in school. The former at my colleague Diane's desk and the latter was in my little office.
Paper app for the iPad.
Always trying to do something fast, the opposite of tedious, something that looks like something without laboring over details. It's an exercise in restraint, speed and simplicity. And again, the best subject is my daughter's cute little size 8-9 Crocs. Kind of like these old ones but not quite.
Paper app for the iPad.
I am pretty psyched about having received my new 5 x 8.5 Evernote Moleskine in the mail the other day. For fear my digital doodles might take over, I have forced myself to use the Moleskine again, even though its pages are significantly thinner than in the regular Moleskine sketchbook. It's ok, because I would lie if I said those little squares didn't help me draw straighter vertical lines.
This is a glimpse of the stuff lying around our garage/studio while Tom is working on insulation and drywall.
Pigma Micron 01 in Evernote Moleskine.
Earlier in the week, I drew with one of my fountain pens in a business class. Hence the much thicker lines.
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