June 14, 2011

     This is a quick - 15 minutes - sketch of my son watching the live feed of the lunar eclipse. From the right, the first band is still light, the next is greyed (shadowed), the third is blushing orange from passing through the light coming around the edge of the earth (our sunsets around the leading perimeter) and the last is the dark of deep shadow. It was fascinating how it became darker before it became lighter, then the orange took over as eventually the only light to hit the moon was light coming through all of the earth's simultaneous sunrises and sunsets for those parts of the world having sunrise/set during the eclipse. You can tell the commentary was informative, too...

April 5, 2011

    This was my husband reading a report in the living room. He showed signs of being ready to take a break, so I had to rush the legs.

April 2nd 2011

    This was a fairly quick sketch of my son fixing my kitchen light while my husband supervises. The son turned out okay... but by the time I'd gotten to my husband I had only managed to sketch his head before they needed another screw and left. I had to try to do the body off a later - and probably slightly different -  lean against the counter and it just didn't do right... mainly going wrong in the neck and shoulders, which translates down into the torso. On the bright side (!) the light works!

March 16, 2011

    A boy and his dog:  Mindy ( a mountain cur ) and Scott catching up on zzzs together. Mindy's ear is inside-out, and I'd think being belly up would feel vulnerable too, but they've "got each other's back". 

Jan 25, 2011

    Here are some sketches done in different styles - whatever hit me at the moment - of various family members. When I was growing up, my mother (who taught art in public school) always told me to look at a drawing in the mirror so I could see it as others saw it... so it would cease to look familiar and I could better see the flaws. I have discovered that photographing or scanning these sketches and then seeing them on this blog takes them Way away from me, and I can better determine not just That "there is something wrong with (the jaw, the nose...)" but What is wrong and how to fix it... If I were going to go back into any given sketch and correct it, that would certainly be one tool to use.