Month: February 2009

  • Emergency Still Life

    I have been walking the walls all day today.  Leaving the house would mean leaving my bride home alone with a cranky, croupy Girl2.  We do a pretty good job as long as we can tag team.  The Bride doesn’t lose patience with the kiddo (much), but she sure can with me!  So, trapped in…

  • Stegasaurs in The Great Valley

    I got absolutely nothing that I planned to do this weekend accomplished.  I know it’s just Saturday and there’s still tomorrow, but really I had big plans.  Maybe next weekend.  Anyway, I spent all day at work moving stuff around the pipe yard.  We have important visitors coming this week so we are doing some…

  • Free Drawing

    Tonight, the challenge was to draw anything I wanted… or a vegetable.  While I was trying to decide what I wanted to draw that was not a vegetable, a woman came on TV that I thought had interesting folds of flesh in her face.  She was heavy, but still pretty.  This looks nothing like her. …

  • Drinking Glass

    Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a drinking glass.  I purposely avoid drawing metal and glass, so this was particularly intimidating for me. Once I drew it, though, I had to do it again in pen and watercolor.  I really like this medium better.  One of the biggest reasons I took on the EDM challenge…

  • Concrete Grapes and Thing-a-day 4

    I once read an article lamenting the fact that it was hard to make a black and white rose look soft and not look like concrete.  Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a piece of fruit.  How do you make graphite fruit not look like concrete? We had a lot of fun tonight with the…