November 19, 2011

      I've been soooo busy I'm getting behind on my drawing and posting so I have to ketchup! What's that - do I hear distant groans?

October 18, 2011

    I've missed a few days now, having been without a computer - at least without my computer, due to an unfortunate updating accident... as in; I accepted an update. It was severely incompatible with something and the only thing lacking was the smoke.
    Thanks to the technological expertise, patience and persistence of my sons, my lovely computer is back and doesn't even seem to mind all the completely foul things I called it in the heat of the moment. Let's just say I was inventive...
    Here is a hand pump container of hand sanitizer - the aloe gel variety. I used a 4B the whole way. Hmm... maybe I should have drawn a bar of soap?
   

October 8, 2011

    This is a drawing of a funky glass bottle made in China. I'm lucky I drew it this morning because the antics of our young, overly exuberant mountain cur raised the wrath of a yellow jacket and she took it out on my right hand (the dog being, apparently, too fast to catch). Half my hand is double it's normal size, and if it's not waaaaaaaaaay better by tomorrow evening I may just have to do tomorrow's sketch with my toes!

October 2, 2011

    Tonight I drew a hand full of lollipops, wrapped in clear cellophane, with silver "twisties" around the sticks attaching oval tags. They're stuck down into the neck of a royal blue bottle - although it's all in 2B graphite. Oh, and one chewed lollipop stick...

June 5, 2011

    I pulled up a sprig of some type of tiny yellow wild clover on a walk the other day and stuck it in a plastic bottle I kept from when someone had bought drinking water on a car trip. I really like this thin, cheap plastic bottle - I wish it were glass or something durable. The shape strikes a nice balance between "cute" (it looks sort of like a little alien) and clean, attractive design, and is just the right amount of water for plenty of practical purposes. 
    Once again, I can see - only after I scan and post the drawing - where I have distorted the shape of the bottle by flattening the right side a bit. Maybe toward the end of the year I might go back and revisit the drawings I've done and correct some things... if I think it would be a good exercise at that point. I'll wait and see...  

May 28, 2011

    A (plastic) bottle of big brown pills for my elderly dog who is stiff in her hips.

March 8, 2011

      Three wine bottles - I took four (optimistic? pessimistic?) to our art guild board meeting, but they only drank one. The remaining three, determined to serve art, sat very still for me while I drew them for my sketch a day. In case you're wondering, the yummiest is quite cheap; Duplin's Scuppernong Blush, made in Rose Hill NC, which tastes just like scuppernong grapes... And also in case you're wondering, no - the wine had nothing to do with the left side of the right hand bottle being slightly bowed. It's just a wobble of the hand...

Feb 19th, 2011

    A very quick sketch tonight - an empty milk bottle.