Thursday, July 31, 1980

Cave with Landscape

From inside the cave, looking out. I would include this with my "geode" drawings because it has a bright, cheerful center scene surrounded by rock. Except we're inside the rock, and the scene is outside.

This drawing took me weeks to complete. It's one of my favorites, but I find it a little disorienting, even unsettling, to look at.

Thursday, February 28, 1980

Turtle Shapes

Two overlapping shapes, traced from a ceramic turtle that I made in grade school (shown below.) To try this, click here.

Sunday, February 24, 1980

Frog Panel


This is a very large drawing, 11 x 50", on three pages of drawing paper. See below for the individual pages.

I made two paper frog cutouts to trace around. I enjoyed all the details - flowers, trees, rocks, water, lizards, turtle, frog variations. Below are the three pages.

Left:

Center:

Right:

Thursday, May 31, 1979

Tuesday, May 1, 1979

Doodle Toy 1


This image is about 6 inches in diameter. It looks 3-D to me, like a stuffed toy. Too bad about the Bad Markers bleeding outside the lines. See Bad Marker Disclaimer.

Friday, March 31, 1978

Red Teapot


My teapot. It was blue really, but I wanted red in this drawing.

Wednesday, February 1, 1978

Tea Strainer 1


Sometimes to start a drawing, I trace around objects, like the pierced metal handle of my tea strainer. On this drawing, I used the full shape of the object. To try this, click here.

On a later drawing, I used partial shapes; that post also has a photo of the actual tea strainer.

Saturday, December 31, 1977

Flowing Abstract


I like the flow and the colors in this drawing. It's on 15x17 paper, and I was able to fit most of it on my 8.5x14 scanner glass.

Close up, it's easy to see the Bad Marker streaking and bleeding. See Bad Marker Disclaimer.

Sunday, October 30, 1977

Tuesday, October 25, 1977

Thursday, October 20, 1977

Tree with Four Leaves

Done with colored pencils. Wonderful colors. A solemn feeling.

Paper: ecru Crane's card approx. 4x6"

Saturday, October 15, 1977

Landscape with Silver Strand

Sometimes I see the silver strand as a path, sometimes as a stream of water. I love this drawing, but colored pencils were not the right medium for me.

Paper: white Crane's card approx. 4x6"

Friday, September 30, 1977

Patches of Colors

Most of my Venus Spectracolor pencils in one small drawing. After 30 years, I still have the pencils.

Paper: ecru Crane's card approx. 4x6"

Sunday, May 1, 1977

Beach with Tree Stump


I love the swirling lines in the water, and the tree trunk.

Friday, April 15, 1977

Asparagus


Lush colors. I enjoyed drawing the asparagus shapes and details.

Paper: white Crane's card approx. 4x6"

Thursday, March 31, 1977

Sunset


Drawn with brown Pilot Razor Point pen, and colored with Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Watercolors. A wonderful name for a wonderful product. Liquid dyes in little eyedropper bottles. The colors truly are radiant and transparent. For more information about the watercolors, including my color chart, see this post.

Paper: ecru Crane's card approx. 4x6"

Tuesday, March 15, 1977

Town with Hills and Road


I like the bright colors of the buildings alongside the natural colors of the hills and trees. And especially I like the road.

Monday, February 28, 1977

Rocks - A New Set of Markers

Up to the first part of 1977, my markers were Pentel fine tips, water based. Then in Feb. 1977, I got a new set of markers. I was very excited to try them out, and this was my first drawing, just round rock shapes to see the new colors.

They were great colors (see also the Asparagus drawing), but soon they went off the market. As mine dried up, I couldn't replace them.

Wednesday, December 1, 1976

Stamping with Carved Potatoes




I say "I'm not a stamper, I just draw and color" - because many Copic users are stampers. (Rubber stamps, that is.) But I have done some stamping, if you include carved potatoes. It was fun working with these simple shapes that I cut into the thickly sliced potato.

These are stamped on Crane's cards. The colors are Dr. Ph. Martin, but I think the potato starch gives it a different look - more opaque. For more information about the watercolors, including my color chart, see this post.

Unlike my other drawings, I didn't write dates on these, but I'm guessing 1976.