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A shaky start on a further study of Staithes. Drawn with a Pentel 0.5mm pencil on an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
Some more research for a reconstruction drawing, this time the appearance of late 17rh or early 18th century weaving looms. I also had an opportunity to make a study of one of my favourite artists, William Hogarth. The drawing is based on the preliminary drawing for plate 1 of the Industry and Idleness series of engravings. Francis Goodchild can be seen on the left, Tom Idle on the right. My main interest was the looms and other items setting the scene in a Spitalfields weaving workshop, so left out some of the details, the cat playing with the shuttle however was too good to miss. Hogarth's print was published in September 1747. The looms would have been similar to ones in my reconstruction drawing though not identical. Drawn with a Pentel 0.5mm pencil on an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
Taken at the Queen City Draggers' Tradition Rod and Custom car show held at Quaker Stake and Lube in the Milford suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Pinstriper and owner of the Sketch Pad, Taz Henschen and the Queen City Draggers always put on great car shows with amazing cars and great bands. This year was no exception.
I really like well done, clean, no frills drivers like this one. It may be a work in progress, but if it were mine, I'd be very tempted to keep it just as it is. Wonderful.
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Just a snap I took many years ago… I wish I could make a living on walking, I love walking / observing…
…move through time and space…
…if you know a way to do that drop me a line here :) someday if I am rich enough I will just walk through Europe, stay at hostels I find sit and draw while I try local coffee at lovely sleazy cafés and draw in my sketchpad meet random people…
…well I’d better hurry, since Europe and the world seems more like a powder keg ready to explode at any moment…
...why only Europe??? Well I always felt uneasy in traveling about traveling to places where, liberal democratic values rule, I want to walk in places where my human rights are guaranteed, I don’t like the feeling that I could arbitrarily be put in to prison…
…that doesn’t mean that that sort of thing couldn’t happen in democracies, I was arbitrarily “kept” for six hours by Danish Police for six hours, because I was at the wrong place (a train) at the wrong time when jagtvej 69 and it’s following riot was, and probably because I knew people who was sympathetic to the Jagtvej Cause…
…I was there to look for work (I had just quit my job as a cleaner in Denmark) they way we were treated as criminals lined up by the wall with policemen screaming behind our back in a cellar, made me think that this is how and far worse it is for those who can be arrested in non liberal democracies…
…I do understand that the police was stressed, but when they came on to the train and picked out people only by their looks was scary, I was wearing make-up and my guess is that might have been why I couldn’t travel in to central Copenhagen, when I looked at the people they selected to “arrest” it was mostly “people of color” and people with “alternative dressing style”…
…later on this case would actually make a headline in Danish newspapers, since they had arbitrarily arrested and kept a politicians daughter…
…anyhow my other encounters with Danish police has been pleasant, they are even more professional than Swedish Police I have encountered…
…so to cut a ling story short! I value the freedom of not risking being arbitrarily arrested, it can happen in liberal democracies but is less likely…
…I am not anti-police, they have a very important role to fill in our society and without them there would be chaos and the strong mans law would rule…
…but it is important (and even more important) that police too follow the law…
…and also have the civil courage to not follow orders that go against morale and just become a tool for autocratic despots…
….may all be able to live in a world where you can speak and think freely!!!
Peace and Noise!
/MushroomBrain for a better world in a dark tike
Made for Technological Overload
apps from top left to right:
easy wi-fi, youtube, clock, flickr
wordpress, calendar, stocks, weather
iTurn, french, iLuna, projects
google earth, sketchpad, Obama, calculator
phone, mail, Safari, iPod
View of Canal Cafe from the bridge of Waseda-dori over Sobu line (早稲田 通り)
Kagurazaka, Tokyo, Japan
Wed June 10 2009
Acrylic
9x12 Strathmore Sketchpad
Mt Lola is the highest point of Nevada county in California.
The actual summit is not seen in this drawing.
Koh-I-Noor Triocolor jumbo pencils on Daler-Rowney sketchpad, 9x12".
I couldn't scan this image properly, so the highlights were digitally adjusted a bit.
Meoto Zenzai (Desserts Store)
Japan, 〒542-0076 Osaka, Chuo Ward, Namba, 1 Chome−2−10
法善寺MEOUTOビル
Acrylic
9x12 Cottonwood sketchpad
Nov 17 2024
A detail of the boats in Staithes harbour. The village was predominantly a fishing settlement until the late 19th century. The fishermen used a type of clinker-built fishing boat known as cobles. They had a broad beam, high bow and flat stern, characteristics that were ddeveloped toncope with sea conditions on the north east coqst of England. Some of these are still used, though many have been modified with small diesel motors and steering cabins. The boats were fairly tricky to portray as they appear very small in the overall drawing. Drawn with a Pentel 0.5mm pencil on an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
2024. Arteza colored pencils on Comet Arts sketchpad. 14x17"
Twice a day I take a short walk to the row of maple trees. I wanted to draw them forever. Since my phone photos are always lacking, I used a photo by Pixabay:
Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, Mendocino County, California
Koh-I-Noor Triocolor jumbo pencils on Daler-Rowney sketchpad, 9x12".
At The Sketch Pad open house party in Mt. Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Pin striper, Joey "Taz" Henschen held an open house, hot rod show and party at his place of business, The Sketch Pad. Several of the VooDoo Kings attended and brought some of their outrageous cars to the event. This young lady came down from Chicago with VooDoo Larry who is the founder and president of the club and operator of VooDoo Larry Kustoms. There was to be a Pin-up girl contest later in the day, but is was so hot we packed it in. I don't know if Collette intended to participate, but from what I saw, if she did, I'd say she had a good chance of winning.
Adding some color to my world with some relatively quick sketches. I adjusted the brightness in phtoshop to be even brighter than the original, but it still may be too dark. Using Sketchpad.
Taken at the Queen City Draggers' Tradition Rod and Custom car show held at Quaker Stake and Lube in the Milford suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The car's body had all of the paint removed down to the bare metal. I think it was originally a hard top that now has had it's roof cut off, windshield shopped and air shocks installed. It's kind of ratty yet cool the way it is, but I don't know if the owner plans to develop it further.
…taken about the last few days before moving to Vienna many years ago.
Since I could not bring most of my furniture to Vienna, I smashed up much of my old furniture, either to obtain smaller chunks that could fit into the bin or to use for my different artworks I was working on, yes many of the things I made around that 2009 was made out of my old furniture…
Also I was very creative in my last days in Sweden, so it was quite a shock to get to Vienna and only having a suitcase of belongings for the first couple of weeks, I had all that “on a flow” energy and all I had was my sketchpad…
…then we got a temporary home in a second hand rented flat on Margareten in Vienna, only one box of belongings arrived, so even if I had more clothing my boxes with creative stuff would still be held at the warehouse while we tried to find a more permanent home… the stay became months before we finally got our rented flat at Landstrasse…
Happy Mother’s Day!
“Marianne & Daisy & Lilly” 20 minute sketch.
Acrylic
B4 Maruman Sketchpad
Sunday May 11 2025
Collection of the models
@nomad_portrait_artists event
Barnsdall Art Park
Lunch at Shinsengumi Hakata Ramen in Little Tokyo
I have been sitting on this image a few months, intending to tinker with it. One of the things I am always fascinated by when I go to the beach is the patterns created in the sand by wind and water. It really is amazing the abstract (and not so abstract) designs one can find at the beach. Sort of like the coast is Nature's sketchpad.
Anyway, I found these patterns in the sand at Second Beach during a trip earlier this year and grabbed a photo of them. This by the way is why I like my Bogen tripod. There are not very many times I need to position the camera to shoot straight down between the legs, but this was one of those times. And though it is not a feature I use often, it sure was handy here as I was shooting infrared film with a deep red filter, making hand holding and sharp not joint package.
So I tinkered with it a bit more and think I finally like it enough to post. I like it more for the reminder to always look down. And when you are looking down, to always look up. And left. And right. Look for the obvious, then look in the completely opposite direction. You never know what you will find, but I guarantee that you won't find it unless you look.
A slow start on a new study of Staithes. Drawing a pile of lobster pots will be a major challenge. The first one has already gone wrong. Time to build up the drawing with a few buildings to restore confidence. Drawn with a Pentel 0.5mm pencil on an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
I'm teaching a grad course at the Kansas City Art Institute this week for art teachers. Today was day one, and we focused on capturing people. This morning teachers were introduced to strategies including single and multiple line gesture sketches in ink. In the afternoon, participants worked on their own: pencil gestures, then making decisions about which lines to ink, and finally using selective brush marks to add modeling. I went ahead and added color washes to one of my studies.
It was hotter than hell today!
Kansas City, Missouri • LAMY Safari pen, watercolor washes, Canson watercolor sketchpad
2021. Arteza pencils on Comet Arts sketchpad. 14x17.
Based on a photo by Andrew Marden, New Jersey, used with his kind permission.
I woke up this morning and it was as if somebody had gone mad with a paint brush. Jet contrails criss crossed the sky in every direction.
Autostitch panorama
Pen and fugitive markers & posca paint marker on paper
4 x 4 inches
From life/observation and imagination
Somewhere around March 2020, there was a 'bonus box' of Tombow art supplies inbetween the monthly boxes. This box contained
an HB pencil,
a pigment pen
4 markers that were brush on one end and chisel on the other.
I enjoy using brush markers but these failed the light test in a week, so only use them in sketchpads and the like that will be kept closed and away from light - don't even hang on your wall for a month to look at them, some colors fade away completely. It's the same for the Tombow ones that are brush on one end and fine point on the other.
Anyway, here I used the pen and 4 markers, but not the pencil. The purple and blue are very similar in color and value so it almost seems like three colors. And then I 'cheated' on my conceit of only using what was in the box, and lightened a couple of areas with a white Posca paint marker.
Taken at the Queen City Draggers' Tradition Rod and Custom car show held at Quaker Stake and Lube in the Milford suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The car's body had all of the paint removed down to the bare metal. There is something caught in the left side of the emblem. I can't tell if it is a spider or simply part of an old rag.
2021. Koh-i-Noor Polycolor pencils, Daler-Rowney sketchpad 9x12".
Reference photo by Nick Collins:
www.pexels.com/photo/selective-focus-photography-of-red-a...
I just needed to lay down some bright colors. Probably would be better with pastels or paints.
Skimo's Artistic Side!
She has one of the best stays when it comes to photography. When she sees the camera, she knows its business. (:
She in this picture was drawing a portrait of one of her 'crushes'. Just like me she likes to doodle with mechanical pencils. It's snowing a lot today, should be much fun for my snow dog to frolic in it!
Lighting: Used a desk lamp on the left to light her face up more than just the candlelight.
Taken at the Queen City Draggers' Tradition Rod and Custom car show held at Quaker Stake and Lube in the Milford suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
This one looks like a beautiful restoration job rather than a hot rod or custom like most of the others at the show.
Starting a new study of a famous abbey in Yorkshire, based on reference pictures I took in 2019. It continues my recent theme of framing the subject with trees. Drawn with a Staedtler 0.3mm pencil and Tombow Mono zero eraser in an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
Because I am busy setting my my bedroom / studio space, complete with a new easel, and installing new sketchpad software for my wacom tablet, I don't plan hanging around on flickr much today.
So, rather than fiddling around with taking new images right now, I am posting this photo that I accidentally came across yesterday, of me eating an orange slice, about 5 years ago...
One of my Christmas gifts this year was an orange..no foolin. Just like the good old days.. when oranges were a precious thing indeed.
Taken at the Queen City Draggers' Tradition Rod and Custom car show held at Quaker Stake and Lube in the Milford suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
For several days I haven't picked up a pencil to draw as I have been writing up a summary of a talk I gave to a local vernacular buildings group. It is another sketch view of buildings in Staithes. It is, as usual, a slow start. Hopefully I will be able to focus on this as the written work is finished. Drawn with a Pentel 0.5mm pencil on an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
The "Paddy Wagon" is a Show Rod designed in 1968 by Tom Daniel, probably the most talented and popular fantasy-car designer of all time.
Tom worked many years for GM and in his spare time he created new “Off the Sketchpad” articles for Rod & Custom magazine. This caught the attention of Monogram’s model shop supervisor, Roger Harney, who got approval to have Daniel create new model designs.
Then, from 1967 through 1975, Tom designed over 75 plastic model kit designs that Monogram manufactured, many of which enjoyed multi-million unit sales.
Among these the "Paddy Wagon" that I recreated via LEGO bricks.
Old-time police wagons were called "Paddy Wagons", probably because most cops in those days were Irish. "Paddy" is slang for "Irish".
Main "Paddy Wagon" features:
- "muscular" chromed blown small-block V-8;
- a "C" cab;
- double windshield (glass for Window 1x6x5);
- chrome gold side horns;
- Good Year drag slicks;
- custom silver stickers;
- older-style drum headlights;
- oval side windows barred;
- a Motometer radiator cap.
This is my second TD's Show Rod, the first I built was the Beer Wagon. Hope you like it!
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This often happens to me......in the middle of the nights......
I can't concentrate on anything.....let alone studies........
even the sound of the shutter doesn't provide me with the peace of mind.......
that's when I take up my sketchpad and a pencil......somehow.....it takes in all my concentration......makes me feel good.....sends me to a trans state......gives me the peace I need.....
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Koh-i-Noor Triocolor jumbo pencils, Daler-Rowney sketchpad 9x12".
Original photography by Nick Collins (via pexels):
Our Daily Challenge ... creative
Thought I'd better say that my creativity lies in photography and editing. I shot the photo of the sketch pad and pastels and inserted the shot of the frangipanis from the day before. I love the look of pastels but I did not use them to sketch the flowers.
Stranger #11 – Angèle
It had been snowing during the night, the streets had been sprayed with salt. It was sunny, cold and rather windy. I was starting to feel cold, I don’t wear gloves when I shoot it just feels cumbersome and awkward to me to operate a camera with gloves and my hands were numb and getting painful. I noticed Angèle sitting on a bench, she wasn’t wearing gloves either. Her legs were folded, she had a sketchpad balanced on her right leg and even though it was literally freezing, she was drawing. I asked her if I could take her picture just the way she was, drawing there. She agreed and resumed drawing, thoroughly absorbed, never appearing self-conscious nor looking at the camera. I made a few exposures, trying to take a picture that would capture the way she was, sitting on that bench, drawing as people were walking by. Some of the shots I took were okay, especially when I managed to time my pressing the shutter release with the wind brushing her hair off her face and showing her eyes, all in all they were passable candid shots. Worse, they felt impersonal and in that moment, there were only a few angles I could try crouching in the road of that semi pedestrian street, the idea I was missing would only occur to me later.
Angèle studies applied arts and design. She doesn’t enjoy enjoy design as much from what I gathered, designing objects is too “square”, she prefers drawing. Angèle has been drawing since she was 3, she even draws during her classes. For a while she’s been having classes once every two weeks, part of the measures taken to try and slow down the epidemic has been to split classes in halves, half the students remain at home for week 1 and do distance learning while the other half attend in person and they switch every other week. Angèle told me it wasn’t always easy to stay upbeat but that she tries not to look at the negative side. I think drawing helps her.
That’s when I knew what I needed to capture, what I needed to have a memory of, it wasn’t for the 100 strangers challenge that I needed that moment it was something I needed to remember for myself, not just seeing Angèle drawing in the cold but that particular moment when I felt a kinship with Angèle, when she stopped being a stranger, when I related to her. I crouched so as to take a picture of her at eye level. I focused on the eye closest to the lens, closing down the aperture to f/3.5 since I was quite close to her in order to get her face in focus and let the background fall off.
I asked if I could jot down some notes because there were things I knew I’d be unable to remember otherwise and she asked me if she could sketch me “that way we’ll be even” as she put it. I was happy to oblige. I was impressed with her sketch, Angèle didn’t seem all that satisfied, telling me her hands were numb with the cold. I asked her if I could take a picture of the sketch she’d made of me, I didn’t think to ask her if she’d be okay with me putting a picture of her sketch as a comment, I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I’m happy with the portrait I took of her, not because of any skill that I displayed but because it’s the memory of a moment I enjoyed. I wish I’d thought to ask her if I could take pictures of her hands as she drew, just fill the frame with her hands and her sketches, I love craftsmanship and hands working their craft (their witchcraft). Then again, considering how cold it was it might have been uncomfortable for her to draw in the cold much longer for the camera. I know just enough about drawing to understand how much invisible work goes into being able to draw the way Angèle does. In her sketches is the watermark of thousands of hours of practice. I’m grateful that I was lucky enough to meet Angèle.
Thank you very much Angèle!
This picture is #11 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This is my 6th submission to the Human Family Group. To view more street portraits and stories visit The Human Family Flickr Group page
Il avait un peu neigé dans le courant de la nuit et en tout début de matinée. Les rues avaient été salées. Il faisait ensoleillé, froid et il y avait du vent. Je commençais à avoir froid, je ne porte pas de gants quand je sors faire des photos, manipuler un appareil photo avec des gants n’est pas assez pratique, j’avais les mains engourdies et légèrement douloureuses. J’ai aperçu Angèle qui était assise sur un banc, elle ne portait pas de gants non plus. Elle avait les jambes croisées et sur sa jambe droite elle avait un carnet dans lequel elle dessinait malgré le froid. Je lui ai demandé si je pouvais la prendre en photo telle qu’elle était, en train de dessiner. Elle a accepté et a repris ses dessins, absorbée par ce qu’elle faisait, sans embarras ni regard vers l’objectif. J’ai pris quelques photos, tentant de capturer ce moment, la façon dont elle observait et dessinait alors que les gens étaient en mouvement autour d’elle. Certaines des photos que j’ai prises d’Angèle étaient acceptables, en particulier celles où j’ai réussi à la prendre en photo alors que le vent écartait ses cheveux de son visage et où l’on pouvait voir ses yeux. Dans l’ensemble, c’étaient des photos candides passables. Pire, c’étaient des photos impersonnelles et sur le moment il n’y avait qu’un certain nombre d’angles par lequel je pouvais aborder ces photos, accroupi sur la route de cette rue semi-piétonne, l’idée qui me manquait ne me viendrait que par la suite.
Angèle étudie les sciences et technologies du design et des arts appliqués. Elle apprécie moins le design et tout ce qui a à voir avec les objets c’est « trop carré », elle préfère le dessin. Angèle dessine depuis qu’elle a 3 ans, y compris en classe. Depuis quelques temps, elle a cours une semaine sur deux. Parmi les mesures prises pour tenter de ralentir l’épidémie, les classes ont été scindées en demi-groupes qui vont en cours une semaine sur deux et sont en distanciel quand ils ne sont pas en cours. Angèle m’a dit que ce n’est pas évident de garder le moral mais qu’elle essaie de ne pas voir le négatif. Je crois que dessiner l’aide.
C’est à ce moment là que j’ai compris ce que je devais capturer, le souvenir que j’avais besoin de garder, moins pour le défi que pour moi, un moment que je devais conserver : pas juste observer Angèle en train de dessiner dans le froid, mais ce moment où j’ai ressenti une affinité avec Angèle, où je me suis identifié à ce qu’elle disait. Je me suis accroupi pour la prendre en photo de façon à être au même niveau que ses yeux. J’ai fait la mise au point sur l’œil qui se trouvait le plus proche par rapport à l’objectif, j’ai légèrement fermé le diaphragme à f/3.5 puisque je me trouvais assez proche d’elle afin d’avoir son visage net et laisser l’arrière plan se dissoudre.
Je lui ai demandé si je pouvais prendre quelques notes, il y avait des choses dont je n’aurais pas pu me souvenir sans noter et elle m’a demandé si elle pouvait me dessiner «comme ça on est quittes» comme elle l’a joliment formulé. J’étais ravi de lui rendre service. J’ai été impressionné par son dessin, elle a un excellent coup de crayon. Angèle ne m’a pas paru aussi satisfaite de son croquis, elle m’a dit que ses mains étaient engourdies par le froid. Je lui ai demandé si je pouvais prendre une photo du dessin qu’elle avait fait de moi, je n’ai pas pensé à lui demander si elle m’autorisait à le mettre en commentaire, je n’avais pas réfléchi jusque là. Je suis content du portrait que j’ai pris d’elle, pas à cause de la moindre compétence dont j’aurais fait preuve mais parce que c’est un souvenir d’un moment que j’ai apprécié. Je regrette de ne pas avoir pensé à lui demander si je pouvais prendre des photos de ses mains quand elle dessinait. J’aurais aimé remplir le cadre avec ses mains et ses dessins, j’adore l’art, l’artisanat, le savoir faire et j’adore voir et photographier des mains en train de travailler leur art (leur magie). Cela dit, compte tenu du froid, il aurait peut être été inconfortable voire douloureux pour Angèle de dessiner le temps que je prenne ses mains en photo. J’en sais juste assez sur le dessin pour comprendre quelle somme de travail invisible se trouve derrière la capacité d’Angèle à dessiner comme elle le fait. Dans ses dessins on peut lire en filigrane les milliers d’heures de pratique pour en arriver là. Je suis reconnaissant d’avoir eu la chance de rencontrer Angèle.
Merci beaucoup Angèle!
Cette photo est la #11 dans mon projet 100 strangers. Apprenez-en plus au sujet du projet et visionnez les photos prises par d’autres photographes sur la page Flickr du groupe 100 Strangers
C’est ma sixième participation au groupe The Human Family. Pour voir plus de portraits de rue et d’histoires, visitez la page Flickr du groupe The Human Family