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2010-07-17T18:47:00.000-07:00

My First Zentangle or Lab #20 Out of Control

2010-07-11T19:57:00.000-07:00

This started as a drawing lab to emulate the abstract artist Joan Miro, but along the way I discovered Zentangles and decided to try that technique on this sketch. About 4 hours later... this is what I ended up with. This could be addicting...

Drawing Lab #23

2010-07-10T21:41:00.000-07:00

I am reading this book "Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists". This is one of the labs I completed, called " Your Inner Dr. Seuss". The objective was to emulate his style and make your own creation. It was a fun way to get me drawing again.

Still life

2009-03-08T18:58:00.000-07:00

Finally broke down and did some drawing for the first time in about 8 months....

Vacation Sketching

2008-07-01T21:47:00.000-07:00

I have the week off from work and am finally starting to wind down a bit. I promised myself (and others) I would do some drawing this week. It's been several months since I have drawn anything.. I guess I am an all-or-nothing kinda gal, so here goes....
Considering going on the sketching diet -- you have to draw your food before you can eat it.....
I really do love my iPod Video... I take it with me everywhere especially when exercising....
This is a little drink umbrella left over from Ethan's Birthday party....

So I went running tonight and my shins are killing me.. So while I was icing them down, I decided to draw my foot while I was waiting....

Hopefully more to come this week and/or I will get somewhat back into the drawing habit again...

A little sketching time.

2008-03-30T18:25:00.000-07:00

Samantha and I had a 'girls day' while the guys were off camping yesterday. We went to lunch and did quite a bit of shopping. She and I both really enjoyed the 1 on 1 time together. Lots of fun!! Then she had a friend over for a sleep-over so I hung out it my room listening to Pandora radio and doing some light sketching... Above are the pants and shirt I bought from Old Navy...if you couldn't tell.. :-)
There is a picture of a girl on the tee shirt I just bought. I started sketching it and kind of embellished from there. This girl has a lot of hair!! I hope it doesnt make her neck tired. :-)

Portrait #15

2007-11-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

I have been unmotivated to draw for a while now, as you can see, my last portrait post was in April! Being a holiday weekend hanging around the house with no excuses for why I couldn't draw I decided I had better at least try to draw something. So I pulled out my drawing stuff and my collection of pictures I have ripped out magazines, picked one at random, reminded myself it didn't matter if it turned out bad or not, and started to draw. Anyway, I had fun with it and was satisfied with the result.

The Sun is finally Shining!

2007-10-08T15:15:00.000-07:00

I have been away a long time.. from drawing, that is. I have had a lot going on with work and family and just fell out of the habit of it. Honestly, I had no desire to draw. But I feel better when I do and worse when I don't and feeling worse takes away my desire to draw. Vicious cycle. Anyway, enough of that drama. Bleh!! Of course when I don't draw, I regress, but you have to just do it anyway. So this is a tiny little sketch I did at lunch time today. I parked my car under a tree at the lake I have parked near at lunch hundreds and hundreds of times over the last, dare i say, maybe 18 years. As they say, "the more things change the more they stay the same". Anyway, it has been raining here for a solid week. It was so depressing! Finally the skies have cleared to a beautiful sunny day. I liked the way the palm trees were reflected in the mirror surface of the windows on this building -- and did I mention it was sunny?! :-) Hopefully I will get back into the habit again.

Tami

Portrait #14

2007-04-08T14:13:00.000-07:00

This is Oprah from the cover of the latest O Magazine. I used Watercolor Pencils, on Moleskine watercolor paper.

Portrait #13

2007-04-07T19:53:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter. To see the photo I drew this from click here.

2007-04-01T19:56:00.000-07:00

I was determined I was going to draw something this weekend and post, even with everything else I did this weekend. So I got this one in under the wire. I also cleaned out my daughters room, ripped out her carpet, helped paint the walls and move her new bed back in. And then there was all the work stuff as well. I need a vacation from my weekend! :-)

Portrait #11

2007-03-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

Portrait #10

2007-03-21T16:01:00.000-07:00

I finally broke down and bought a Molskine Watercolor Journal, and today I finally broke it in with another portrait. Practice, practice, practice...

Portrait 08 with Video

2007-03-18T19:21:00.000-07:00

My husband saw the demo by Danny Gregory and started wondering whether we could do a timelapse video too. So he set up the camera and I started drawing. Here is our first attempt. It is very short - I think we need to take more frames next time. The actual drawing time was about 45 minutes. I am pretty pleased with it for our first try. Let me know what you think.

Click here to see the video.

Portrait #07

2007-03-18T19:18:00.000-07:00

I did some more portrait practice today. I went back to the exercise of starting the drawing upside down to get the features in place. Definitely showing more improvement on this. I did lay everything in in pencil first before commiting to ink.

Portrait #06

2007-03-17T21:10:00.000-07:00

I took a little more time with this one and tried to get the features right in pencil before inking it in. This was inked with black Pigma Micron waterproof pen and painted with black water color. I was having a little trouble controlling the water-paint mixture to get the right shades of gray. Once it goes down too dark it is hard to correct. Something to practice more of. Oh, yeah, and I didn't do this one upside down. I think my brain just keeps working too hard trying to turn it right side up again it gives me problems. Or maybe I am just wimping out because that exercise is too far outside my comfort zone. Anyway, I am a bit happier with this one than the last.

Portrait 03 Inspired by Danny Gregory's portraits

2007-03-11T22:57:00.000-07:00

After seeing Danny Gregory's demo on drawing portraits upside down, I was inspired to try a few of my own. This is one that didn't turn out too bad. I don't think the drawing upside down is really helping me to get a better likeness of the person but it does seem to make it more interesting. The eyes seem somehow more piercing and intense. Also, by drawing in ink, I can't erase so that is a challenge for me. This was actually done from a picture of Andie McDowell, but it turned out looking more like Julia Roberts... interesting....

EDM #29 - Draw Something Architectural

2007-03-11T19:33:00.000-07:00

We went down to the Riverwalk this evening to celebrate the 1st day of Daylight Savings Time. It was still light when I started drawing and full-on sundown by the time I finished. I was having a little trouble with perspective and drawing in ink where I cannot erase is still pretty challenging for me, but I do like the cartoonish character of it. Although the Bank of America building looks a bit like a rocket about to take off! LOL... The neatest thing about this was that a few different people came up and made nice comments about my drawing. I just said 'Thank You' and kept on drawing. A few months ago, I would have been so self-conscious I probably would have stopped and packed up my stuff, or I would have scoffed and said something really negative about my drawing. I am learning it is the process of drawing that is more important than the end result or what others think. That's progress!

EDM Challenge #10 - Draw Your Hand

2007-03-11T19:27:00.000-07:00

This is an (almost) blind contour drawing of my hand. I do like the way the watercolors worked on this one. I have been pretty lazy by just shading in with the watercolor pencils and smearing it around with a waterbrush. But here I actually used some of my cake water colors and a real brush and water cup. It definitely makes a difference.

EDM Challenge #13- Draw your Telephone

2007-03-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Crackberry; Lifeline; Ball and Chain; glued to my hip or on my bedside table at night. It is my watch, my alarm clock, my really slow Internet connection, my email, my address book, my phone, my walkie-talkie, my night-light, my notepad, my grocery list, my entertainment when I am bored, an annoyance when I am trying to do something fun, my safety net anytime - anywhere. This is the object I probably look at and handle a thousand times a day. Love it or hate it, I think it (or it's descendants) is here to stay.

EDM Challenge#41 - Draw a landmark of your City

2006-09-14T19:01:00.000-07:00

Downtown Jacksonville. The Mainstreet Bridge and the Modis Building.
We all went down to the Riverwalk this evening. I took my sketchbook and Emory brought his camera. We walked down to the statue and the kids played around while Emory took pictures and I drew this picture. It is still outside my comfort zone for me to draw from reality and to draw outside in public, but I am glad I am pushing myself. It started out really bad and I almost gave up on it, but I kept working it and I think it turned out OK. It has a kind of cartoonish look to it. I like it.

EDM Challenge #36 - Draw out in Public

2006-09-12T19:55:00.000-07:00

I have been pretty shy about drawing out in public, but then I realized if I dont get over that I will miss out on a lot of opportunities for sketching. So last Sunday I took the kids to Wendy's for lunch and as they were eating their Frosty's I drew the remains of my lunch. I added most of the color when I got home.

EDM Challenge #1 Shoe

2006-09-12T18:52:00.000-07:00

I was out of town last night sitting in my hotel room looking for something to draw. Then I remembered I had my Challenges list from the EDM forum and started with #1: Draw a Shoe. The book it is sitting on is Sarks Succulent Wild Woman, which I am reading now. After reading The Creative License I noticed there are quite a few other books written and illustrated by hand.. But for some reason they are all in the Self Help section at Barnes & Noble.. I would have never thought to look there......