Bow ties

Man alive, daily drawing is seriously hanging in the balance this semester. I still haven't gotten to the grocery store. Luckily I had these bow ties and a jar of sauce on hand.

Sayonara koi

It's the first day of my second year of graduate school and I have a knot in my stomach. It's not just because of school, but because I'm feeling protective of my new daily art practice. I don't want it to get snuffed out by the rigorous demands of academia. But my intent when I started this blog was to make art despite the obstacles, and this was the big one that I knew was coming. It will be an extra challenge now that I live in a house filled with objects shouting "Draw ME! Draw ME!"

There is a cream color in all the drawings of koi that doesn't seem to show up on the computer. It's so lovely, that cream color on newsprint, and helps to complete their form.

Konnichiwa Koi

Koi are so flirtatious. They play the gesture drawing game well by slowly emerging to the surface, then quickly darting away.

Sasebo Japanese garden

I wanted to try some quick sketching, so I went on a field trip to Albuquerque's lovely new Japanese garden. I had three rules; I had to draw as fast as I could, using only long strokes, and no erasing.