tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57554572024-03-13T13:09:35.141-06:00Shrubbery...Home of Vague Mutterings.
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Why? Well, why not? And yes (since I know you must be wondering),<br>it is a good shrubbery. I like the laurels particularly.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-36198121654799216192024-02-24T18:39:00.000-07:002024-02-24T18:39:15.071-07:00Hey, blog<p> Just a quick post of a quick scribble to see if this thing is still on, so to speak. </p><p>Cone snail shell in Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth Magic pencil. That's the reason for the random colours.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTWaJtVyx-NHVr1AkRkDgi1dXpLuE-aRA2AqPkRYQmizOMypix85v1uh4LMv7qx8b4X2mq44Au-v3ENthLOKHErpvSiIpo3zvOcJR1Ksk4t2alX-ivuaH2NMDMt4M_BoPfAfhtO_FFXfwq78L_nRoBUxMi3cnxY95TkvKHvu91ID2zZ8J-3BrZw/s1395/IMG_20240224_132514_273.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="1395" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTWaJtVyx-NHVr1AkRkDgi1dXpLuE-aRA2AqPkRYQmizOMypix85v1uh4LMv7qx8b4X2mq44Au-v3ENthLOKHErpvSiIpo3zvOcJR1Ksk4t2alX-ivuaH2NMDMt4M_BoPfAfhtO_FFXfwq78L_nRoBUxMi3cnxY95TkvKHvu91ID2zZ8J-3BrZw/s320/IMG_20240224_132514_273.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-27921012222459433752017-12-31T12:32:00.000-07:002017-12-31T12:32:25.200-07:00Maps in Tritones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Yes, I still doodle. I just don't post it often.</div>
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>map</i>. A good one for the last week of the year, actually. Where have you been, where are you headed... a person could get really philosophical.</div>
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Sometimes my brain just likes to make curved lines. Call it a mind map in a way, although it's not usually what's meant by the term. Curved, branching lines have made my brain happy for a long time. These ones were done on plain old manila with Tritone pencils (2 per page), which is why there are colour variations. They were also done in a darkened room while half-watching television, so the only really conscious thing about them was to try to fill the white (well, yellow) space.</div>
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Sorry for the dodgy scans, but the paper was just a little too big for the scanner bed, and cropping would have just cut things off even more. Ah well, call it one last bit of "excuse my mess" for the last day of the year.</div>
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This week's Illustration Friday prompt is <i>fable.</i> My illogical draft was just quick, but the story is fun.<br />
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I wish I could remember where I heard it, though. If you have an attribution, please tell me.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">A long time ago there was a stonecutter. The people of the village depended on him for stone for their houses and gardens. He was good at his job but it was hard work, and many times as he worked away with his chisel he'd wish he was anything but what he was.</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">One day as he chiselled at a stone, the sun was beating down so bright and so hot that the stonecutter cried out, "oh, how I wish I was the sun. I would shine down brightly until everyone would see that I was the most powerful thing in the universe. Then I would be happy."</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Well, it just so happened that his guiding spirit had been watching and listening. It agreed to grant the stonecutter his desire, and the next thing he knew the stonecutter was the sun. He shone down on the people of the village to let them know it was time to work. He shone on the crops to make them grow. He warmed the whole earth with his light and gloried in his power.</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Then one day a cloud drifted over in front of the sun. Try as he might, the sun couldn't make his light penetrate that cloud. The sun cried out, "oh, how I wish I was a cloud. I would travel wherever I wanted to and shade out the sun until everyone would see that I was the most powerful thing in the universe. Then I would be happy."</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">The guiding spirit heard the sun's wish, and the next thing he knew the sun was a cloud. He drifted happily through the sky, casting his shade wherever he desired. He danced with the wind and gloried in his power.</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Then one day the cloud was joined by other clouds until they became a big, dark mass. Water started falling out of the cloud and joining the river below. The rushing river took the cloud water away as fast as it fell. Seeing this, the cloud cried, "oh, how I wish I was the river. I would travel over all the lands sweeping everything before me until everyone would see that I was the most powerful thing in the universe. Then I would be happy."</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">The guiding spirit heard the cloud's wish, and the next thing he knew the cloud was a river. He rushed headlong over the lands, carving steep banks and carrying along anything he fancied. He roared to the skies and gloried in his power.</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Then one day he saw his path blocked by an enormous boulder. The rock caught up the water and made it double back on itself, causing the land to flood. Feeling this, the river cried, "oh, how I wish I was the boulder. I'd stand immobile and block anything coming my way until everyone would see that I was the most powerful thing in the universe. Then I would be happy."</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">The guiding spirit heard the river's wish, and the next thing he knew the river was a boulder. He stood gravely, impervious to sun, wind or rain. He laughed at the elements and gloried in his power.</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Then one day he felt himself cracking and breaking apart. The boulder was shocked and cried out, "oh, how I wish I could be the thing that cracks a boulder. I would certainly, without a doubt, be the most powerful thing in the universe. Then I would be happy."</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">The guiding spirit heard the boulder's wish, and the next thing he knew the boulder...</span><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffedf7; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Was a stonecutter.</span>deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-55864098154927200072017-04-02T12:06:00.000-06:002017-04-02T12:06:52.632-06:00Flame in pen & ink, metallic pencil, watercolour pencil, and tritone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hard to believe that such a simple doodle took that many media... and after all of that the scanner played its usual games with the colours anyway. Ah well.<br />
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>hot</i>, which somehow prompted both a drawing AND my first poem in ages, such as it is.<br />
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Hey, I'm rusty. What can I say?deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-90159766629296890752017-02-19T16:49:00.000-07:002017-02-19T16:49:06.144-07:00A bad morning for Bud the Bug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>stomp</i>.<br />
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I'm, um, sure that Bud will be ok.<br />
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Really.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-52740667782463472282017-01-22T11:57:00.002-07:002017-01-22T11:57:52.650-07:00Shell in pen & ink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've already submitted once for <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a>'s word <i>swirl </i>this week, but since I had time this morning I thought I'd add a quick shell doodle. I have a feeling that I'll be getting out my model shells tonight (yes, I have shells that do modelling) and doodle a few more, because shells are fun.<br />
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This one was mostly imaginary, as anyone who knows their gastropods (which, actually, I don't. I'm a mammalogist) probably knew immediately. The pens are Stabilo's Point 88, which I picked up at Christmas to force myself to stop thinking only in black monochrome when I'm playing with pens. And why exactly these colours? Well, if you figure that one out, let me know. I'm curious too.<br />
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The wrist is still not as stable as I'd like it to be, but I miss pen work so I'm going to get back to it anyway. If it's shaky and people consider that a stylistic choice, I'm fine with it.<br />
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Or at least I'll keep telling myself that.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-83339384536956298322017-01-21T08:58:00.001-07:002017-01-21T08:58:29.127-07:00Digital spiral<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know that this is a repeat pic from a post below, but it was too appropriate to not use for <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a>'s prompt of <i>swirl</i>.<br />
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I'll try to do something new later in the week. Given my recent track record, it may or may not be posted.<br />
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We'll see.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-85423941079541293362017-01-18T10:27:00.000-07:002017-01-18T10:27:05.100-07:00Snowshoe art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just quickly because I have work to do, but here's proof that art is still happening, even if it doesn't make it to the blog.<br />
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Well, doodles are still happening, anyway.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-76033946024598599362016-08-14T13:21:00.000-06:002016-08-14T13:21:17.335-06:00More digital sillinessMaybe silliness isn't the right word, but calling it art seems kind of weird.<br />
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I have a few different... let's call them autodrawing apps for lack of a better term... on my phone and tablet. On my phone I'll use them if I'm waiting for something and don't feel like checking twitter or playing a game (ah, modern life). On my tablet it's sometimes distraction when I have a headache, sometimes wanting something to do with my hands, and sometimes just being too lazy to find something to do.<br />
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I don't, I should make clear, use them for meditation or trying to clear and/or focus my brain. I know some people have luck with that, but my thought processes just don't work that way. For me, it's just idle fun.<br />
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The odd thing, though, is that I often find myself somewhat drawn into the art aspect of it without realising it. For example, I have two kaleidoscope-type apps; one of which aimed at adults and the other just at entertaining kids. I get artsy with both of them, sometimes without meaning to. I guess some things are just ingrained within us somehow.<br />
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Anyway, here are a few of my latest down-time "art" offerings. Of these, Magic Fluids (the one that looks sort of like an aurora borealis) is the only app that I've actually paid for the upgraded version because I find it fascinating. The shot you're seeing here is from the free version, though.<br />
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>trapped</i>.<br />
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A warning for all of my stick-figure friends: if you go for a walk on a Moebius strip, it will NEVER END...<br />
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And yeah, as usual the scanner did away with the wash, for the most part. I'm used to it.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-38228239996165927452016-07-04T10:35:00.002-06:002016-07-04T10:35:47.895-06:00Just a bit of recent pattern play<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I get tired of my cheap scanner ignoring watercolours, so I did a phone scan for this one instead. Sorry about my shadow.<br />
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>vintage</i>.<br />
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This doodle is based on an actual radio that I own. It's up in my old bedroom right now, in fact. It used to belong to my grandmother, who gave it to me when I was a young woman developing an interest in antiques.<br />
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This thing is the real deal, folks. Bakelite, art deco styling, vacuum tubes... and it still works, even. It was bought, apparently, specifically to listen to a boxing match. It still blows me away that people would gather to listen to <i>boxing</i> on the radio. Heck, I have enough trouble listening to hockey on the radio, and that at least has more to it than two people hitting each other.<br />
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Erm... not a fan of boxing, if you couldn't tell.<br />
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I know that if I ever wanted to sell grandma's radio it wouldn't be difficult. There's a pretty big market for vacuum tubes and things like that in the custom amp builders area. It would break my heart to see a pristine survivor like this in scattered parts, though, so if I ever do decide to get rid of it I'm hoping that there's a radio enthusiast or museum out there that might find it as cool as I do.<br />
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Just as an aside, I honestly don't know what possessed me to go pen & ink on a shaky wrist day. Just think of the squiggles as artistic license, if you like. They weren't, but whatever works for you.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-74792552557808812932016-05-15T12:06:00.000-06:002016-05-15T12:06:47.250-06:00Poppy in watercolour crayon and pen & ink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>nostalgia</i>. This is a very quick and not entirely accurate sketch of an Iceland (or Icelandic, as I grew up with) Poppy <i>(Papaver nudicale)</i>.<br />
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Iceland poppies make me pretty nostalgic because they're one of the first things that I can remember planting with my mother. They generally become self-seeding and almost weedy around the yard, but they're so cheerful in early spring that I can't help but just let them be. Dad's yard needs a bit of a seed boost at the moment, I think, because after all these years from the initial planting there's only a few plants here and there that are still seeding themselves.<br />
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I wrote a poem about them a long time ago, which you can <a href="http://deeol.blogspot.ca/2007/11/papaver.html" target="_blank">read here</a> if you're into that sort of thing. I'm definitely ok with it if you're <i>not</i> into flower poems, though...deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-59851710920973025772016-04-29T10:52:00.000-06:002016-04-29T10:52:05.113-06:00Smoke in watercolour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is old, which I don't usually do, but I like it. That's unusual, since I'm not much of a painter.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-72374028632305762162016-04-24T16:49:00.000-06:002016-04-24T16:49:18.477-06:00Silliness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm not doing Illustration Friday this week (the prompt is Prince: I know what most people have posted, and I don't do portraits. I'm also not in the mood to put a twist on it).<br />
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In lieu of that, here's a fairly bad cat doodle (done in multicoloured pencil, no less) that has been completely warped over by digital filters.<br />
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Sometimes it fun to just be silly instead of worrying about getting results. I need to remind myself of that too frequently.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-82699637942864222652016-04-20T14:15:00.002-06:002016-04-20T14:15:27.397-06:00Leafy in various watercolour pencils and pen & ink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>wood</i>.<br />
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I don't really know what this is meant to be, to be honest. I was just doodling on paper that was completely inappropriate for watercolour, as you can see from the crinkles.<br />
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That's ok with me, since I don't know what it is anyway... did I mention that?deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-26682514867042681712016-03-27T12:34:00.001-06:002016-03-27T12:34:54.412-06:00Lack of wisdom in graphite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>wisdom</i>, and this is a quick soft-pencil sketch of my wisdom teeth. They were coming in at such a bad angle that they were removed before they even erupted (sounds like the mouth is a volcano when you put it that way. Thanks, dentists), including the one that they had to chisel in two because it was stubborn.<br />
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And why am I drawing my teeth?<br />
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Well, because I didn't want to go all abstract thought today. Plus, they were there.<br />
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I'm not kidding. I'm visiting my Dad, and all my old teeth (and my brother's as well) are here. My mother kept them all. Why?<br />
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Damned if I know. Seems kind of weird to me, but then I've never been a mother.<br />
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I have left out one thing on the teeth, if anyone's interested. All four of my wisdom teeth have a distinct greenish brown band around the roots. That comes from teenage use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracycline" target="_blank">tetracycline</a> for acne, which I don't think they do much of now because (oddly enough) it discolours growing teeth. If anyone out there is actually curious (and if so, why?), I could post a photograph. I won't do that unless you ask, though.<br />
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration</a> Friday was dragon. This was from a number of years ago when we had an explosion of meadow hawks. They don't care where they sit when they're posturing. There you go. My hand dragon.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-51997493164390169002016-02-28T11:33:00.000-07:002016-02-28T11:33:10.476-07:00Village Tree in watercolour crayon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>village</i>.<br />
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A tree can be a village of sorts, can't it?<br />
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As usual with watercolour and my cheap scanner, I've had to fudge this a bit to get most of it to come through. Also as usual, sometimes I play with silly filters afterwards just for fun. Below, behold this doodle in...<br />
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Actually, I kind of like it. Maybe I should "draw" in neon more often.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-7572440774282757212016-01-27T15:38:00.001-07:002016-01-27T15:38:34.645-07:00Disco duck?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was drawing a picture of a <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hooded_Merganser/id" target="_blank">Hooded Merganser</a>. Then I decided that I wanted to play instead, so I got out one of my multicoloured pencils (this time, the red-blue-yellow one). So instead of a largely black and white duck, mine's... special, I guess.<br />
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I know that I'm a five-year-old when it comes to these things, but I really do like the surprise of self-mixing colours. I can't say that I'd ever do anything serious with "magic" pencils, but they're sure fun to mess around with.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-67383594361105707562016-01-24T11:45:00.001-07:002016-01-24T11:45:29.892-07:00On the Half-skull in "Magic" pencil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>orbit</i>. My take is orbit as in eye socket, obviously.<br />
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The skull is very loosely based on an ancient Roman skull excavated in London. There's a story about it an other artifacts <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/artifacts-found-under-london-archaeology-text" target="_blank">here</a>, and it's worth a read.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-37180902335838513442016-01-23T11:20:00.003-07:002016-01-23T11:20:54.843-07:00Just a couple of doodles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was just a bit of play with the Wacom Bamboo Paper app on my tablet. So far not bad, but I have another app that I like a bit better (I'll upload something form it at some point or other). Still, can't complain much about something that I got for free.<br />
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I still don't think I'll get rid of paper since texture is such a big part of things for me, but for casual doodling digital can be handy.<br />
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>spin</i>. This? Well, to be honest it's from a drawing app that's supposed to be for kids but is endlessly entertaining for my personal inner five-year-old. We all need a little doodle time, I figure.<br />
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I'll throw in a couple of bonus spins below; believe me, there were plenty more from that particular session. I just didn't want to overdo it.<br />
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deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-69852238254102733042016-01-11T10:26:00.001-07:002016-01-11T10:26:28.352-07:00Island in Koh-I-Noor "Magic" pencil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt is <i>tropical.</i><br />
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The scanner didn't like this one at all and I had to do a lot of playing to get the colour to show, so sorry if it looks completely digital now. It's not. It's a Koh-I-Noor Magic pencil. <a href="http://www.koh-i-noor.cz/en/category/magic-special-coloured-pencils" target="_blank">Here's the link</a>.<br />
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Yes, I got some Magic pencils because at heart I'm still a five-year-old who gets a bit of a thrill at the random colour mix you get from drawing with a multicolour leaded pencil. The Original pencil, for example, is red, blue, and yellow, so you get... almost anything,really. This particular pencil is the one that they call Tropical.<br />
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I thought it was appropriate.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755457.post-73078621230410653782015-12-27T16:05:00.001-07:002015-12-27T16:05:22.082-07:00It's not just a scribble<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> prompt was <i>soar</i>, and since they haven't gotten around to putting up a new one yet I suppose I'll go over there and post my version after all.<br />
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There's a reason behind this.<br />
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There's a reason why it's uneven. There's a reason why there are blank patches.<br />
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You've probably guessed by now that I'm going to let you make up your own mind.<br />
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I realise that my current abstract-ness isn't to the taste of a lot of you, but it's doing something for me and that's pretty important in the end. Realism will come back. Eventually. It always does. In the meantime, just enjoy the colours if that's all you're seeing, because that's all right too.deeolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267972712353219314noreply@blogger.com0