(Bad Art Created With Cheap Office Supplies!)

Bad Art Created With Cheap Office Supplies!

Monday, April 16, 2012

Vacation Sketchbook 03

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BART trains are the commuter trains in the San Francisco area, where I went on vacation recently (stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit). 

Brown ink laid down with a crow quill dip pen, blue put down with a cheap-o gel pen and packing tape (and a bit of watered down india ink for the shading). True hodge-podge of art materials. Or, in the modern spirit of glossing over a mess, I suppose it should be called "mixed media". 

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wind & Oil

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     Another one inspired from the sights on my recent vacation. 

     Driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco one sees oil being pumped from the ground near Bakersfield, and Windmills generating electricity in the Altamont Pass. 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Jump Rope

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Another drawing/painting that was done on the road. This one was done in a burger joint on Haight street in San Francisco. Brown ink and gouache (white and just a touch of burnt umber).

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Moleskine, Page 1

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     I recently saw some YouTube videos of a great artist flipping through his Moleskine notebook and it inspired me to get one for myself. 

     I had to put aside my (well founded) fear of putting so many drawings in one place. When I was a student in art school, I had a WONDERFUL sketchbook, with all kinds of fabulous stuff in it, class notes, etc, and I foolishly left it in the back of a taxicab. Ever since then I've been leery of putting so many drawings in one easy-to-lose place. 

     But now, I have a scanner, and I can back up to the cloud. So if the actual book gets lost, I'll still have the art in digital form. Which puts my mind at ease. 

     Kind of. 

    

Monday, April 9, 2012

Giraffe Cowboy

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Did this up in Berkeley while on vacation with my older girls. I started it in the Berkeley Public Library (table to spread out on, unlike the hotel room, and a place to recharge my phone). I managed to get the penciling, and most of the ink-work done there. Then my phone buzzed with a text from my girls, who were up and ready to go. Sooo...I folded it back into my Moleskine and dashed off. 

Later that same day, we were all over in the Haight, "shopping". Or rather, they were shopping, and I was kind of bored. So I went downhill to the park in the Panhandle (yes, filled with panhandlers, but named for something else entirely), to sit on a park bench with a cup of water and lay in the color with gouache mixed with one of those really cheap-o packs of watercolors. 

I'm trying to create art no matter where I am or what I'm doing. It's teaching me things about myself. Good things.