…and busy bees. There are two of them, but the second one isn’t easy to see at first. This is from our garden when I went to water it.
This was at a local government meeting here recognizing volunteers to help keep the city clean. I looked up and thought it was an interesting composition with the people leaning this way and that way and the ficas tree in the middle.
I just realized my last post was a sketch during a meeting too — well I guess you know what I do during meetings now.
I kind of liked the weird fish-eye effect on the monitor. It was also nice that I just happened to have a giant arrow over my head…
This is from the last time I watered our plot a couple days back. I realized I have a few sketches I’ve made from the past of our plot at various stages of development.
Joan tending the veggies — you can tell how close it is to the freeway on-ramp here.
From the other side during a watering session.
And this was a layout she asked me to make from an overhead view as a record of what she has in there and roughly where it’s placed.
My friend and co-worker Anthony Holden inspired me today by reminding me not to get to “precious” about what sketches I may upload, take a chance and show sketches that I’m not 100% happy with, but put them up here anyway. I think it’s good advice.
I watered our plot at our Community Garden and, while soaking the roots of a sapling, sketched some of the blossoms of a nearby peach tree. The bees were busy…
I made this sketch on New Year’s Day — what we usually have for breakfast on Christmas and New Years: smoked salmon, bagels, cream cheese, olives and onions. I’m feeling a tad self-conscious about the perspective glitch on the olive dish, but, as always, these sketches are done directly in ink in my sketch book with no penciling or planning, let the chips fall where they may! — it’s part of the fun of it all. Happy new year to everyone!
I did this sketch yesterday on my iPod using an app called “Brushes”. I saw France Belleville-Van Stone use it in her blog, thought the results were interesting and wanted to try it out for myself. This sketch is of my current office mate Ryan. I like the fact that it uses layers close to the way Photoshop does. And it’s kind of interesting for me to draw, write and even post to my blog from a single little hand-held device (I got the WordPress app too!). I know, I’m a geek. But there is something compelling to me about the self- contained portability of it all.
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