Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
If you missed the UCLA-Stanford game Saturday you missed another incredible white-knuckler.
Note to Bruins: yes, we like drama, but waiting until last 9 minutes of the fourth quarter to score 21 points and tie it up at 24-24 is just a little too much excitement for the likes of me. (The score was Stanford […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Once again it’s time for El Dia de Los Muertos, as it’s known in Los Angeles and other cities with a heavy Latin American influence. We also call it Halloween, but I think the ‘muertos’ theme is much more interesting, as are the traditions that accompany it.
Every year I create an artistamp to swap with […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Photoshop, Artistamp, Drawing | 5 Comments »
Friday, October 28th, 2005
This is a composite of two things I’ve drawn before … a background from a card used in a Halloween exchange last fall, and a drawing done earlier this year of Minnie, my friend’s papillon, used in the Illustration Friday “Dare” challenge.
I had been thinking of posting something wolfish for a Halloween motif - after […]
Posted in Watercolor, Photoshop, Pen and Ink, Dogs, cats, other animals, sketch, Drawing | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Look, it’s a magic trick. I have cleverly tried pasting in some texture to the antique chair to create the illusion of actual drawn lines where there are none so you won’t think the drawing stinks as much as it really does! But then, in a moment of guilt-ridden angst I am compelled the […]
Posted in Photoshop, Pen and Ink, Blind Contour Friday, sketch, Drawing | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Busy, busy days. We’re working on a new video project involving an organization that’s helping the survivors of Katrina in Los Angeles and in the process we’re meeting some very resilient people and hearing incredible stories of suffering and survival. There wasn’t a lot of extra time for recreational drawing today, so I briefly […]
Posted in Photoshop, Moleskine, Pencil, sketch, Portraits | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 24th, 2005
Rosa Parks
Feb 4, 1913 - October 25, 2005
Posted in Illustration Friday, Photoshop, Digital collage, Editorial/opinion | 16 Comments »
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
How I spent my Saturday. I was presented with several alternatives:
a) scrub brush
b) toilet brush
c) sink brush
d) brush attachment on the vacuum cleaner
e) push brush for back porch
f) brush pen
Guess which one I picked?
Life is short. I can chase dust motes when my eyes are too weak to see and my hand too shaky to […]
Posted in Pen and Ink | 8 Comments »
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
I need more RAM
Not the computer kind. Not Random Access memory.
That kind of RAM I’ve got plenty of.
I need this kind. The kind with hooves and horns. The kind you catch a glimpse of on a mountainside.
I need more days outside before the chill of winter comes.
More trips to the zoo, more walks in the […]
Posted in Photoshop, Pen and Ink, Dogs, cats, other animals | 7 Comments »
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Well, here we go again - it’s another dumb looking offering to the Blind Contour Cult, artfully organized and agitated by Niff and Sutter at Inkfinger (see link in column at right.) Bonus points if you can even tell what these things are. They looked so silly I couldn’t resist giving them some eyes […]
Posted in Photoshop, Pen and Ink, Blind Contour Friday | 13 Comments »
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
A watercolor nature sketch that fits the “Cold” theme, I think.
Oh, and this is what cold looks like on Mars …
(painted in Corel Painter)
Posted in Watercolor, Illustration Friday, Painter | 13 Comments »