Sketchcrawl!!!

Rainy view from a Starbucks window.
Yesterday was a cold and rainy day for sketching. We had planned to go to Central Park, but it was just to wet and drizzly, so we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art instead.

It was small group, and people came and left at different times. I met 4 new people who were all very nice..I wish they could've stayed longer, but I'm glad they braved the weather to come.

Other than them, there was Christi, Nelson and myself. Phillipe joined us briefly, then we walked over to Gina's apt. to hang out, eat dinner and draw a little more.

Happy Passover

AllyBenZoeLeon

These are my sketches from Passover. I went to visit my great aunt Stella and my cousins on Long Island. It nice to see family again, and I saw a few people I haven't seen in years and years. My cousin Ben graced our ears with his every so lovely rendition of the Pesach 4 Questions 'rock remix' and improvised similar musical wonders with "Dayenue."

His singing was indeed enough. =-P

I'm not very happy with these drawings...it's hard to do portraits with a brush pen, and even harder when you know the people you're drawing. I like the drawing of Ally(i'm sorry i don't know how she spells her name) but I made her look older.

Too tired to scan things on christi's scanner

the title says it all. between late nights at work and early morning attempts to go to the gym before, I have no energy to bother with scanning on christi's scanner and the moving it all over to my computer.

But I feel I ought to post something....so....if you've seen it, too bad, if you haven't, then it's new to you.

I did these jewelry designs about a year ago. I have no idea if they ever made it to stores. It was one of the better jewelry jobs they had me do.

I drew the bodies for the top two. but not the head. she has the wierdest head.

For anyone who reads this who is NOT an animator, did you know that Betty Boop started out as a dog? Her hoop earings were dog ears originally and she first appeared on Bimbo the dog cartoons. And Bimbo was originally on Koko the Clown cartoons.

no drawings

On Saturday we went to Dr. Sketchy's burlesque drawing again. It was awesome and the model was amazing. But....I haven't had time to scan the drawings yet. And I think I left my small sketchbook there, so I can't scan in any drawings from there either.

But..as a consolation, I give you a lame little watercolor I did a few weeks ago.

The first one is supposed to be the view from my window in Michigan. My brother and I always called the tree outside my window the "middle finger tree" because the pine cone thingies look like they're telling the world to f* off.

The brown triangle on the bottom is the roof of the garage/back porch.

The second painting was an attempt to paint the creek behind the house. It was a favorite place of mine to sit and dream. When I was little I liked to pretend that fairies lived under those willow trees that hung gracefully over the water. However, the only winged creatures fluttering beneath the branches are mosquiteos and gnats.

I HATE mosquitoes. and gnats aren't nice when they get in your nose and mouth. they do that a lot when you're riding your bike down the hill and over the bridge, esp. in the evening.

It's hard to draw a place from memory.

First day at Lawton Elementary School.

This is....a memory drawing, i guess.... It was my first day of school at my new school Lawton. I was 7 and we'd just moved to that neighborhood.

During recess, since I had no one to play with...I climbed to the top of this tall thingy made of old tires.

And I was stuck.

Terrified, I sat clinging, watching everyone play below. I couldn't figure out how you were supposed to get down.

Soon, the teachers blew their whistles to signal the end of recess. I felt ready to cry....I couldn't get down, and if I couldn't get down I'd get in trouble for not coming back to class....

I was too shy and ashamed to ask for help.

Finally, I swallowed my fear and cautiously slipped down the first tire. My stomach flipped with the slight drop....and then another tire...and finally the last one. I don't remember if I got back to the classroom late or not....but it was a while before I was comfortable climbing that thing again.

freelance monstering: The "Why-Isn't-Your-Room-Clean?!!!" Monster

Christi thinks this monster is a freelance monster, hired by parents to come and terrorize their children into cleaning. I wonder what it's like to be a freelance monster.