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Schpirerr Farben and Prismacolor Verithin colored pencils on Comet Arts sketchpad, 14x17".
Based on a B&W photo portrait of main actors from the 1978 Soviet movie picture. I think I achieved a decent resemblance with graphite, but ruined it while coloring, especially their faces.
I may have chosen the wrong pencil for a quick sketch of this ruined abbey. Nevermind, a new study won't hurt and can be added to my like of Yorkshire building studies. Drawn with a Staedtler Graphic 0.3mm pencil on an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
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.
2022. Koh-I-Noor Triocolor and Polycolor pencils on Daler-Rowney sketchpad 9x12".
Lake Seliger is a large system of linked lakes featuring many small islands and which is surrounded by pine forests and fields. It is considered one of the true nature's gems of Russia and a cultural center of Russia with many churches and monasteries located in proximity of each other. It is a place of pilgrimage for devoted Russian Orthodox Christians. In recent years the lake's shores became not only a desired real estate, but also a selected location for pro-Putin youth camps.
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.
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.
Taken at the VooDoo Kings open house at The Sketch Pad in the Mt. Healthy suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Sketch Pad is owned by "Taz" who is a well know hot rodder and pinstriper in the area. He held annual open houses at his place for several years until some crazy had a burn out get out of control and do some damage to a neighbors home. Since then, "Taz" hosts car shows at various public places, but no longer at his home and shop. The shows are some of the best around as they always attract some of the most unusual and wild vehicles.
This particular rod was pulling a small trailer that was a smaller version of the car itself. You can see a little of it in the shot.
Topo designs bag, 15inch macbook pro, sketchpads, eraser, western digital 1tb hard drive Infographics book, lots of pencils and my canon eos m that i was using to take the photo.
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.
Ricoh GRD IV
(Bleach Bypass cold)
a few days ago, i did a first post on the Ricoh GRD IV on my website Sparthphoto, and i thought i was going to develop a bit more on the camera right here.
It's having a lot of advantages, and when it comes to ergonomy as well as the fun factor, i will have a hard time spotting things i am not liking.
However i still have hesitations with some elements in the image quality, or let's rather say, i'm still trying to accept the fact it's a small sensor camera. i was so used to large sensors that the fact of capturing a scene was all about composition, not about "how to avoid highlights". Besides, your RAW would have contained enough informations to obtain the best exposure so you never had to worry. That small sensor is another story, and despite the fact i love shooting with it, it does contain this issue of instantly going from dark to light, as well as skipping a lot of subtle in-between values that we would have considered vital for a decent image quality.
the problem is also coming from the fact it's a camera mostly good at producing B&W shots. i'm not saying the colors are bad, take the bleach bypass mode for example, it's awesome!, but the gritty and harsh aspect of the shots corresponds to an aesthetic that is, in a way, less compatible with color. as i was saying in an earlier post, i was also finding the bleach bypass mode very harsh as soon as light goes down, and once again i'm still undecided if i like it or not. and at the same time, i have that addictive habit of always going back to that mode, letting aside B&W!
Limitations ... The thing is ...... in a way, that's the whole Point of the camera. all these elements are what gives the GRD line that special touch. in other words, they've been able to avoid falling into the traps of limitations, taking as a pure advantage the fact of having a narrow dynamic range, for example, and produce a nervous contrasty look that appeals to many. same for the noise. it does look good. you can play with it, make it yours, if i might say. i am not saying at all that limitations are always a good thing, it all depends of the rendering, and in the case of the GRD IV, it's a plus.
so the whole point here is mostly that you have to accept the specific aesthetic the camera can give you, not fight it or compare it to higher end "noise free" systems. There is a logic to it all.
"the sketchy small sensor B&W look" that's what Wouter Brandsma, who has been having a long experience with the GR line, was writing in a comment yesterday, and i found it best describes the philosophy here. sketch, or "esquisse". describing things in a loose way, like you would with a sketchpad and a pen.
i still have so much to discover about the GRD IV. i'll probably write more thoughts as they come. Is the camera worth it? definitely. just do NOT expect what you can get out of an fuji x100 or the Leica x1. it's not about definition. the small sensor catches only the vital informations, nothing else. exactly like with a pen and paper sketch...