Cinco de Mayo

“Gallo, Cinco de Mayo”. Gallo is a pretty amazing restaurant.  You can get a 1/4 rotisserie chicken and salad for 5.99 for lunch.  We were at the restaurant/pub across the street. I think I did a pretty good job dealing with smearing non waterproof ink.  I am not sure if the issue was the ink or the sizing on the paper.  Or the humidity.  Maybe all of the above….

Gallo is actually Columbian, not Mexican. I was lucky enough to be sitting by the window of where we are and I had a great view because there is no parking on either side of the street where these places are.

 

Bella barbershop

I went to Main Street to sketch today.  It was a little nippy so I stayed in the car.  I wanted to sketch something that I drive past all the time but never really stop to study.  

It was an easy sketch to do.   I brought it home and my husband looked at it.  He was telling me how it used to be a bar.  Now it is a barbershop…progress?

Sktchy Anniversary

Today is a year from when I first joined Sktchy.  I wanted to celebrate with a bunch of sketches.  I didn’t realize that I was only 32 sketches from 365, a year’s worth.   So today I did a bunch of ATC/ACEO size sketches and I am now at 340.  I wanted to be at 365 but today was a little busy.  So I guess I have to be happy with 340 for now

These were all timed 5 minute sketches in ink.  I used ink so I could work faster.  The watercolor ones are 5 min sketches with 2 minute watercolor.

Sketching in the wild

#Sktchy30 #Day27 and I think 116 for the…I have it written down…The Prompt today for Sktchy 30 is success.  Success comes in many forms. My high school’s motto, several decades ago….is “Vincit qui se vincit.” “She conquers who conquers herself.” Success is getting out of your own way.  Success is being brave. It takes guts to get out of the studio and sketch (or paint) at some place like Starbucks. If you look at the reference photo, the young lady with the ash blond hair caught my eye and I wanted to sketch that hair! Sketching people in public can be a little stressful, you have to really look at them in order to draw them and they catch on after a while. Most ignore me. Some leave. So far no one has freaked out.😂


The dance of line

I did this today in a sketchbook that is very basic, it isn’t great paper, it has prompts on the pages…I call it my grunge or junk sketchbook….this one usually doesn’t see the outside of the studio…I have several sketchbooks like this.  These are where the grunt work and exploration meets creative thought.  I don’t worry about if the pages look good, my main focus is on ideas, things that come from happy accidents.

Today’s sketch is #sktchy30 #day26…the Prompt was “flow”…. for me, flow is the dance of pen on paper….it is this dance, this toccata and fugue of line, that keeps me coming back time and again to create something on paper or canvas.  It’s primal.  It’s something I love to do.

This sketch just flowed…..I didn’t add color because I liked it the way it is and many times color ruins it for me….I want to tell the story with just the pen, paper and line.