Sunday Face: 3/16

My Sunday drawing for March 16, I like the profile.

CED: Transition

My submission for Creative Everyday. The theme for this month is transition. "I have a shroud of darkness around me and I can't transition out of it. Only God can free me."

Sketchbook One - Journal Pages

Thought I share a few journal pages from my Sketchbook One. Although its my oldest sketchbook it still has blank pages for me to create.

Imitation the Highest Form of Flattery

There are so many artist I admire and imitation is the highest form of flattery. I love Karin Jurick. She has the most amazing art work. I attempted to paint like her but I am way off. I tried to do an African American version of one of her paintings.

Literary Friday: All Our Names

I am starting to read All our Names by Dinaw Mengestu. I've never heard of him before selecting his  book. It sounds like it could be interesting.

CED: Transition

Hey Diddle Diddle the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. Hey! This cow didn't transition very well.
This is one of my favorite nursery rhymes. I even have some book ends in my office/studio depicting it.
This illustration is a copy of Sandra Boyton. When I first got married in the 80's I had this calendar with her drawings and I fell in love with this illustration. Well as you know life has a way of letting things slip away. One day as I was decluttering some old papers I came across this illustration. A flood of memories came back. It made me smile. I still think this is so funny and so true. Sometimes when we are trying to jump the moon, it's not as simple as everyone makes it out to be.

Sunday Face

                                 Just a Sunday drawing. I really like the look on her face.

How do you paint dreads?

Here's a sketch I did of a student a couple of years ago, I attempted a colored version, but the hair looks like a woman. This student is a boy with dreads, a popular athlete. I really like the pencil drawing.

Fear, Creativity, Project

I am working on my fear factor. I did a prototype for a story that I love. I want to turn it into a book and have it published. It's a children's book. Here is a glance at the first page. Remember: A work in progress.

Endure

An excerpt I like from the book Job: A man of Heroic Endurance by C.R. Swindoll.

CED: I Heart Edward Gorey

Edward's drawing

I love Edward Gorey's illustrations, so I did my own version of Dracula in Edward Gorey style. I don't know why I am drawn into his darkness. He was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings. I have several of his books in my library. 

 



My drawing

Just some drawings

 

 

I was just doodling at my desk, waiting for next student to come and see me. Not bad.

More Student Portraits

 I finally had an opportunity to do some more student portraits. I very seldom get a chance at work to do these. I feel as though I am getting out of practice. My lines don't look as clean.