Day Four

Recorder

I have had this since I was very young...plays a haunting southwest flute like music.  I need to find some music and reeducate myself on how to play it.

Huge challenge.....

75 day sketch challenge

Its been quite some time since I have sketched anything, but I have wanted to.  Then I stumbled upon this challenge...and altho it is HUGE, I am going to do it......I started to write, I am going to try to do it, but no, I am gonna commit...I AM going to do it...good or bad....one a day for 75 days....why don't you join me.....

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bleeding heart

I took a bench out to the garden and tried to sketch parts of my bleeding heart...and really when you sit and study something and sketch it, you *know* more about it, I basically knew what a bleeding heart looked like...I thought, until I sketched it. This is just a quick study, I plan to go back and capture more of it, and then do it in color.

rough sketch

Had a visitor tonight, one of the neighborhood cats paid a visit, was sitting outside our door on top of the cat house, looking inside. He is a pretty young cat, mostly white with black on his face and black splotches on his body, he has a Holstein look about him. This is a rough sketch, I thought I would post my progress with him. Not sure if I want to just sketch him, colored pencil or water color pencils.

t.a.d. 23 cat nose

This is a sketch of a cats nose. This and the eye below were studies on http://www.onlypencil.com/blog/. Go check it out.

t.a.d. 22 cats eye

This is a study of a cats eye, trying to work on details. I missed a couple thing a days, I am hoping to finish out the week, maybe doing cat *parts* and then putting them all together in a final drawing.

t.a.d. 19 The Cure

Heike, my german sister-in-law says of my cold, "drink a warm beer and go to bed", she says thats what her mother would have told her. I don't think Coors can compare with a stout German lager...but I poured some in my mug and microwaved it, and drank it warm....and now I am off to bed.

t.a.d.9 Mac 1 continued

Ok, this isn't done, but I needed something for todays sketch, I worked on it tonite, but as I look at it I will be able to see what I need to do next...just have to step back and then come back to it, it has some problems, but still some hope.

t.a.d. 7 mac

This is a start of a drawing of one of our dogs, Mac. It isn't the best scanning. I started a drawing class today, and I decided to stick with what I love, animals. It was a little scary to go into a new class and put pencil to paper....exposed to the world, so to speak, and try to focus. I got some great tips, on how to begin, and expand a drawing..I am hopeful...

t.a.d.5 macaw

This is a sketch of a macaw I took a picture of at the Binder Park Zoo.