Today’s Sktchy 

Pulled out the brushes again….I originally intended this to be another soft bodied acrylic piece.  The under painting is a mottled, speckled layer of rolled on acrylic, which is why the whole painting looks speckled.  I was originally going to use soft bodied acrylics to paint this but instead I used casein.  It was an experiment, next time I will try something different for the under painting.

Also, I limited my color palette to white, black, ultramarine blue, rose red, yellow ochre and burnt umber.

Sktchy #33

“No Groundhogs?” That’s right woodchuck chuckers, it’s Groundhog Day….again? I looked for groundhogs to sketch on Sktchy and couldn’t find any so this young lady had to do. She doesn’t understand all the hoopla about Groundhog day since the Groundhogs are pulled out too early in the day before there is enough light to actually see a shadow. And besides, even dogs know that there are six more weeks of winter no matter what a Groundhog might predict. Although, watching “Groundhog Day” is one of the benefits of the festivities.

“No Groundhogs?” Can be purchased for $15.

It is an Artist Trading Card, 2.5 x 3.5. 

A bunch of sketches!

Wow, you guys are really in for a treat tonight….I finally finished the sketchbook!  Here are the last two sketches….

You’re going to need to scroll all the way down for Sktchy # 32….


Tonight was sketch night.  We have been doing our Sketch Nights at the Library for the winter….tonight we sketched shoes and I showed everyone another way to do the shoes a la Danny Gregory….


And finally, here is this evenings Sktchy…

   This sort of just happened….I loosely scribbled this sketch in my morning pages…. I scanned it in and reduced it to 3.5 x 2.5 so I could fit it on an artist trading card.  I smooshed cray pas on the back of the photocopy and then transferred it to the trading card……The final result is on the bottom of the page.



Today’s Sktchy #31

Today is the last day of January.  One month down, 11 to go.  I haven’t decided how I want to proceed with February.  I have been jotting down different ideas for changing things up for February so I don’t get stale…Do I do Artist Trading Cards? (ATCs) Do I start off the month with something related to Valentine’s Day?  Hmmm….

“Austheia” Only two more Sktchy drawings to go to finish this sketchbook!  I am debating on finishing off the book tonight so I can start something new for February. Stay tuned.