Month: February 2009
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The Nude Manequin
I have scantily clad women as wallpaper on my PC. I tell myself that they are for figure drawing practice. I have over 2000 of them. Tonight, my manequin assumed the provocative pose that was on my monitor. I tried to capture it in Rose Art watercolors. He’s a naughty manequin. Also, tonight’s EDM challenge…
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Landmarks
Chickasha, Oklahoma had a large military presence during WWII. The local airport was a major fighter pilot school. What we now use as our county fairgrounds was a P.O.W. camp. There was also a huge hospital for injured soldiers and P.O.W.s. Grady Memorial Hospital is still there, but it is nowhere near as big. Most…
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Saurophaganax maximus!
The 39th EDM challenge was to draw at a museum. I had to postpone it because it happened to fall on a Thursday evening. Today, Saturday, I loaded up Girl2* and my beautiful young bride and we trekked off to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. As soon as you walk through the…
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Li'l Red
You can always tell which of these I like better. I almost always put it on top! Tonight, the EDM challenge was to draw something with folds. I have my motorcycle gloves lying on the dining room table, which my bride finds to be terribly disquieting. Especially this month. Seems between the EDM challenges and…
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Playing in the Blues
Tonight, it was important to play in the blues. I call this “Boys Don’t Cry”. I think I will have to revisit this much larger with bolder colors. Probably not watercolor next time. Kimberly watercolor pencils, waterbrush, memory brush pen black, on canson watercolor paper 90#. Tonight’s EDM was to draw my toothbrush. The biggest…