HOUSES IN MONMOUTH OREGON

Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook.  Previously posted in Sketchbook Skool.

CITY LIGHT BOOKSTORE SAN FRANCISCO

Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook.  Previously posted Sketchbook Skool,

PORTRAIT OF TOMMY KANE

Portrait of Tommy Kane 14" x 17" Yasutomo Suni ink and PITT Big Brush ink pens on Strathmore Bristol Paper.  I tried it with the white background but liked the Sumi ink background better.

FAMILY MEMORIES HATS

MY KITCHEN : HOW I DID IT PART 2

Time to add color. I start in the right corner adding darks, then medium and leaving white paper for highlights. The grain patterns in the wood are made with pen and then several coats of watercolor (chrome orange, cadmium red, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna and venetian red)..Grey, phalo green and sometimes purple for cast shadows.  There are still some weak passages like the left corner where the kitchen counter tops meet, the freezer handle on the refrigerator and the diffusion of light onto the stove (and any other places you or I see) but I plan to touch it up here and there with color pencils and stop before I overwork it. Some things I learned were the importance of going slowly and really looking at the way the light hits the objects, work with mistakes and make them into something.  Don't quit or get discouraged, just have fun.  It's only lines on paper! Let me know in the comments what you think.  

MY KITCHEN : HOW I DID IT

This was a fun homework assignment from Tommy Kane (legendary artist and Creative Art Director in NYC).  Our kitchen done in Uniball vision pen, watercolor and Pitt brush pen in Moleskine watercolor album over two page spread 8 1/4" x 22 1/2".
It started out like this.  From where I was sitting looking at the kitchen I knew I was going to get wonky right away and tilt the refrigerator door.  I like to bend objects or make then wavy because to me it makes them feel alive. Then on to the calendar and various things we stick onto the refrigerator and put in some cabinets. Then I drew a line to indicate where the cabinets would go and decided to draw in the stove. Then back to the right side and start filling in the details.  Over to the left side I ran into a problem of angles.  It wasn't working out at all.  I sat and looked at it for over an hour.  Pretty soon it started looking back at me so I just drew it as best I could and moved on.  Whoa!  I forgot about the dishwasher.  Oh well, guess I'll live without it and do the dishes by hand. Now onto to the last section and we are ready to add color.  I spent a LOT of time just looking at the kitchen and observing how the light traveled over all the objects. I really was thinking about that rather then thinking of the objects name.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Happy Mother's day to Julie's mom. (Like a Mom to me). We love you.
18" x 24" oil on canvass  Portrait of Julia Cofer 1995