“Bell Pepper”
“Handy Subject”
“Darling Clementine”
Brenda watching Portlandia
Inspiration Strikes
“Violin Scroll”
“Chamomile” 3 of 365
Graphite on paper.
Chamomile tea in one of my favorite mugs. My mom gave me this set. It’s an old stoneware set she picked it up at a rummage sale. I love using it and thinking of the hands that wore the glaze off the handle before me.
Oh, delicious conté crayon, how I have missed you. It’s been years.
My reference for this drawing was a photo I took at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, WI this past October.
Goodness. His eye looks a little low in his cranium as I look at him now. Oh, well…I’ll love him just the same anyway.
Conté crayon on paper
A diver, illustrated from above, is foreshortened, so the viewer can’t see the figures body. All that’s shown is face, hands and feet, the diving board…and a wee little pool below.
This is hasty doodle is the first in my participation in a year-long initiative to produce and share daily drawings. It’s fitting I drew this in Eric Roman Beining’s apartment in Milwaukee, the very fellow artist who challenged me to take this on.
Title: Hesitation
Medium: Graphite on paper