Ho'okena Beach

Really, I have been making some sketches, even though I haven't been putting them up here. I could post them all at once, but wouldn't that spoil the fun?

OK, OK - what I did is just put them in the month of October. You'll have to look backwards for them.

Anyway, here's a watercolor-ish picture I did while at Ho'okena Beach. A girl had just gotten out of the surf and was carrying her fins. I know that it doesn't look very...Autumn-ish, but this is Hawaii. Anytime you go down to sea level and look, the waves are higher in the winter, and the sea is calm in the summer.

Mail Art

Sometimes I like to draw a place and then imagine I'm walking around in the scenery. I sent this little scene from my imagination off in the mail to someone who had sent me some art they had done. It's only postcard sized. It was a fun thing to do - I'll have to do more of that.

Hibiscus

Sometimes when you do a piece of art, it's really hard to take a picture of it that makes it look like what it is in person. Sometimes taking a picture of a piece of art makes it look better.
This one was worse... The center, being pinkish, just glows in the real thing, making the lowly hibiscus look heaven sent. It doesn't really come out in the picture.

Paul Singing

Here's another one from that same night at open mike. The black color of the original drawing is butcher pencil, like the stuff butchers draw on their meat packages. Later I added some colored pencil to it...

Ukulele Player

Sometimes I like to go to open mikes. Not to perform, just to have people who stay still long enough to be a model.  This person is a Montessori teacher who can play the ukulele pretty well and sing too.

Of course, it's just a sketch that I added a bit of color to later - nothing really finished yet.

How Mediums Work

No - not the kind of mediums that you get messages from the dead. Below is the sort of stuff you make art with.  Here's an example of what happens when I'm picking up a new medium...


I was talking to a creative friend of mine about what make abstract art interesting. What I'm struck with when I view abstract stuff, is how the artist could sustain the same sort of movement on the surface over and over again.


(I'll show you tomorrow what happens when this is viewed another way...)

A Cartoon

You never know what's going to come out when you draw...

Wishing Well and Pumpkins

On a scrap of paper... this came out.

It's Been Awhile...

It's been awhile since I made my own artwork.  In fact, it's been so long that I don't really know what my artwork looks like. Yes, I did go to art college, but then instead of becoming a fine artist, I became a commercial artist. When you're making art for someone else, it is their purpose that you must address.

So I thought about it. After too much thinking, I decided to just draw and see what came out. Here is the first thing that happened...  is just a doodle of course... 

My New Blog!

This will be the blog where I'm going to put my artwork photos all in one place. Hoping it will help you to find them, instead of wading through my other blogs and websites.  Here's a photo of me with the evidence, next to where I drew graffiti all over someone's window during Christmas time. 

That black stuff on my hands is obviously blood. Art demands sacrifice.