No Drawing Today

No drawing today, I start a new job tomorrow and I'm getting ready.

I'll try to post two tomorrow.

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These are my current favorite shoes. No one that I know likes them even a little, but I still wear them all the time. I wish that I had more like them in different colors.


Spectracolor dark green colored pencil. These are taking me a lot more than four minutes. I'm going to have to get myself a timer and stick to it.

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The zipper pull on my favorite hoodie sweater. I should have put some texture in the background. Spectracolor crimson red. Kept breaking like my Prismacolors. Annoying, that.

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Oops. Forgot to post these yesterday. My phone, that I almost never use and can't check the voice mail on it. Purple Spectracolor.

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My watch, Spectracolor burnt umber. I wear this on a chain around my neck. I've had it a long time, but people that I know still act surprised when they see me check the time on it.



Some people don't notice things. In my life, mostly boy people.

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Melted candle, Spectracolor dark green.

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My glasses, done with Spectracolor pencil in warm grey.
There's something wrong here. I know that the two bars behind the lens couldn't just disappear, but it looked right while I was drawing it.

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I've been going walking with my mother some mornings. The other day she found a twig with some oak leaves and acorns attached.



It makes a really good drawing subject, and I think that at some point I'll do an extended value study.

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I like to draw with mechanical pencils. It takes a while to finish them, but I find it a soothing way to pass the time.

I like this brand of pencil the best. I think that it's a Pentel. On the side it says P205. I like the .5 mm better than the .7 mm too.

Not getting any money for this, but if anyone from Pentel reads it, I'm available for an endorsement deal.

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I've "borrowed" some of my dad's tools over the years. This is one of his hammers. I really like the Koh-i-noor woodless pencils. They're working very well.

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I bought my sister a clock at Pottery Barn. It sits in her living room collecting dust, but it's pretty.


The perspective got messed up, the actual clock's much slimmer than this one. But, if I waited until I made a perfect drawing, I'd never post one, right?

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Bill the Cat, spokesman of a generation.




Anyway, my brother Bob's got a stuffed version of him. Can't call it plush, though. It has no fur. If you've never seen the Bill the Cat doll, it's unsettling. According to Bob, Berke Breathed wanted him to be anything but cuddly. I have to say, it worked.

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Working with the Prismacolors again. I don't particularly like mine, they keep crumbling. I'll have to buy some new and see if it's age that does that.



WD-40 can and some caps, Blue Violet Prismacolor pencil.

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My friend Brian owns his own business. He does computer stuff, hardware, networking and other stuff. Not sure exactly what he does, but he's pretty good at it.

He has this Bluetooth thingy, which he asked me to draw. It's got a brand on it somewhere, but I didn't feel like drawing the "m."

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My brother loves video and computer games. I spent some time with him today. While he played Guitar Hero with my friend Brian, I drew his wireless controller.


I used these really cool woodless colored pencils that I just picked up from Michael's. They're KOH-I-NOOR Hardtmuth. I really like my woodless graphite pencils, so I wanted to try these. I like them so far, but I'll need to test them a bit more.

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One of my friends has a contest with another friend. They try to find the tackiest souvenirs and give them to one another. My friend found, in Rouen, France, a snowglobe of Joan of Arc being burned at the stake.

I found this tacky thing below at the giftshop on the second level of the Eiffel Tower. It's a red, plush keychain with gold stitching. It's wonderfully horrible. Prismacolor pencil, violet blue.

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Last year I went to California to visit my friend Tom. His sister married one of my friends here in Texas, but my sister and I have been out to visit him a couple of times. It was really fun. I posted some pages from my journal on Calliope Arts, if you'd like to see them.

One of my teacher friends used to have her students bring her a bit of sand from their vacations. She had a collection of little plastic boxes full of sand, labeled with their origin. I wanted to save some sand from my trip and put it in a container. I wanted some shells too, but the beach at Hermosa was picked almost clean.

It took me a while to find a suitable bottle, but I got this one at an import store. It's got the sand from Hermosa, and the tiny shells we found.

This is in Prismacolor Sepia colored pencil.

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More of the mannequin. I went searching for colored pencils last night. Turns out I own about five sets of watercolor pencils, and then the Spectracolors that I've been using. Those were a gift from a friend.



This drawing I did with my Prismacolor pencils that I found buried in an old art tool box. I'd forgotten how sometimes they can crumble as you sharpen them. This color's called Crimson Red. Though you might think "red" sufficient, it's not.

Spectracolor has a Vermilion Red. It's orange, really.

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One of my students gave me a goat skull at the end of the school year in May. It's really cool. I've never owned a skull before. This is a close-up of its eye-socket.

Classes at Michael's

I'm teaching classes at my local Michael's Arts & Crafts store, starting with a demonstration this Saturday, September 16th from 10am to 12pm. I've got a whole slate of classes for kids and adults, and they'll all be on my October Google Calendar later today.

If you're not in the area and can't attend, please let me know what you think about the descriptions. If you have an idea for a class, please let me know that too.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope to see you soon!

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And the ever-popular:




















Higgins Ink bottle!

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Today's a day for finding random things on my drafting table to draw.
I give you:















the all exciting brayer! Yay!