Today’s sketches

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These bleeding hearts were done with mixed media on a 4×6 postcard.  They are growing in my garden right now.


This next postcard is a technique I was playing with today.  It was done using painter’s tape and oil pastels, ink and pencil.

Today’s  sketches

I went to the local animal refuge.  They have a strange assortment of animals.  There are the usual barn yard animals…but there is also a bear, a emu….a few spitting alpaca (from a conversation that I overheard), eagles, a fox, etc

I thought they closed at five, fail.  They closed at 3.  I had one hour to sketch.  I did what I could in an hour but now that I have the layout, and it is free, I will be heading over there more.  Especially during the week while the kiddies are in school.

April 21 sketches

Here are some sketches from today/this evening…


These 2 pages of vignettes were done at Starbucks.  I sketched what I saw there, I sketched my cup, etc.  One woman….


brought her two young daughters, purchased them each a cake pop and a small chocolate-something frappaccino.   They weren’t comsuming these 5 minutes when the sugar rush hit and they were literally jumping on the furniture and yes the smallest of the two little girls jumped back and forth from one chair to another….then the mother, exasperated that she couldn’t control them, took them home.  All I had was a flat coffee, no sugar added. I just shook my head as they left.  Some parents have to learn the hard way.

Today’s sketches 

So, today I took my new improved Moleskine out to sketch.  I had a small window of time to sketch before I had to go bome and heat up dinner for the family.  (Yesterday’s leftovers).  I saw the flag down by the bay and I stopped to sketch it.  I used my Lamy Safari pen filled with Noodler’s Bullet Proof ink.   The ink went on nicely….or so it seemed…I noticed smudges that ended up on the side of my hand.  I pulled out my watercolors to add a touch of color and tbe ink smeared.  Strike one for the new Moleskine paper.  I suspect some causes for the ink bleed issue but further testing with different inks will be necessary.


Sketch #2 was inspired by a Carla Sonheim prompt “blah blah blah” which made me think of Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon…..