sketching walks

graphite

This was sketched on a walk thru Whitemud Ravine last weekend. Really pretty down there in the springtime. Found a good quiet spot in the trees and sat and sketched for a while. Discovered I need to bring a portable stool or something to sit on if I'm doing outdoor sketching. Cuz sometimes I saw something that I would like to sketch, but there was nowhere to sit (I sat on a log for this drawing). I took photos too, but drawing from life is better.


pencil

This was sketched on another walk, also through Whitemud Ravine.


graphite, brush pen, pencil crayon & blender pen

a rose that my roomate received.


graphite

visual review of The Other Boleyn Girl

digital collage, mixed media

larger image

This is a collage I've been working on for a while, finished it a couple weeks ago but hadn't gotten around to putting it up yet. It's my response to the movie The Other Boleyn Girl. Very good movie, I didn't know quite what to expect when I went to see it, and was pleasantly surprised and disturbed at the same time. A dark and twisting, backstabbing story. The hand in the collage represents Anne Boleyn, and the cards in the background are the result of her relentless pursuit of the throne.

"the making of" movie

some preliminary sketches and source images:

negative space

pencil crayon

sketching outside yesterday in the lovely weather. didn't finish it tho.

ink splat v.02

ink, pencil crayon

another ink splat drawing.




same ink splat, except this drawing is done by my sister.

I always find it interesting how people get the same school project, or in this case, same ink splat, and see or interpret it totally differently.

ink splats

ink

These drawings are from last Sunday, I had some fun with ink splats. Made these by just putting some ink down on a page ( a good size blob) and then blasting it with air from a compressed air can, to make interesting marks on the page. Then I took a look at the resulting ink splat and created a drawing from it. Pretty fun, actually. Nice and spontaneous stuff.

got the idea from this dude.



ink, ink wash

don't really like how this one turned out. I think I should have left it black and white.



example of an ink splat before adding imagination

painting session

acrylic paint


acrylic paint

I spent an evening a couple weekends ago painting. I found some neat art related quotes that I wanted to try painting. I got the stencil idea from an article in an art magazine (featuring an artist who uses lots of type in his artwork). And I learned that cutting out custom stencils is painstaking and tedious. But at least you can use them more than once.

edit: The artist that got me thinking about stencils is Ward Schumaker, and he was featured on the website Illustration Friday.

flickering

felt marker

Sketch from church a few weeks ago. Object lesson involving an electric contraption with light bulbs that would turn on and off and at varying brightness, depending which switches were flicked. Used as a metaphor for one's spiritual walk. Perhaps most of the time only one light is on, and barely flickering. Sometimes more lights are on. Spiritual walks have ups and downs, as does life.