6-11-2022 Hawaiian Shirt Day at the White Sox

With the cousins...

Where's daddy?

Probably at work to pay for all this!

6-10-2022 Chairman Mr. Thompson

 During last night's first presentation by the "Capitol Riot on 1-6-2021 Investigation Committee," I sketched Chairman Mr. Thompson and Liz Cheney to try and ease some of my anxiety...How can Republicans call this riot 'a typical tourist day at the Capitol?' I cannot wrap my mind around how the Republicans defend this indefensible act, or how they believe all of Trump's lies, or even if they don't believe the lies, they still kowtow to Trump. What hold does he have over them? I just don't get it! And as Liz Cheney said to her fellow Republicans, "There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain." As I re-watched the video footage of the attack on the Capitol last night, a year and a half later, it still made my heart race and my anxiety rise, to the point I had to pick up a pencil and some paper and distract myself with sketching in order to endure re-living this stressful nightmare once again. For the first several decades of my life, I was a proud Republican, but now I am sooooo ashamed of them, and angry at them, for not standing up to Trump and his lies and his criminal action against the Constitution of the USA. Whew! Sorry! Just had to vent! And I know, I know that these drawings look nothing like the people they portray...but this sketching just helped me work thru my anxiety.

6-9-2022. Moose

 

6-8-2022 Boat Ride ... Upper Peninsula

 

6-7-2022 Hangin' with the Cousins

 

6-6-2022 Upper Peninsula

 

6-5-2022 MVP

So proud of my grandson!!!

He got the game ball for being the MVP

this past week!

6-4-2022 Fairy #2

Reference Photo from the tutorial video:

My first (of 5) free-hand sketch rendition of Fairy #2:

and the rest...

6-3-2022 Fairy #1

Fairy #1 and her other 4 renditions are done!

Here is the 'original' fairy in the tutorial

that we were supposed to draw while following along:

Here's how my 'original' fairy #1 turned out:

Rendition #2...squared-off 'anime' eyes:

Rendition #3...big eyes, big neck, rounded face:

Rendition #4...curly hair, ears down, bigger lips, hair down,

and pen instead of pencil

because the pencil is not photographing well:

Rendition #5...Posca Pen, smaller ears, 

hair down, added color:

I still don't have a black pen that won't smear

when touched by the alcohol based colored markers.

Argh! I have 2 on order that I'm hoping will work better

and not smear!

Now it's on to Fairy #2...

6-2-2022 #50FunFabFairies

Yesterday, June 1st,  I signed up for a free challenge

at www.awesomeartschool.com

Awesome Art School link

called #50FunFabFairies.

Once every other week from now to September

she will post a tutorial video on drawing a fairy 

which we are supposed to follow along and draw.

Then, over the next 2 weeks

(until the next video tutorial comes out with the next fairy)

we are supposed to draw 4 more renditions of this fairy

but change one (or more) thing(s).

So, here is my sketch of week one's fairy:

And here is the reference photo from the video tutorial...

I didn't have brown paper or the markers she used

so I just used printer paper and a pencil...

she is big on just using what you have:

6-1-2022 Tears for the Lost Children

I've been working on this free-hand sketch

with pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencils,

varnish, gold paint and gold foil...

inspired by "Freya's Tears" by artist Anne Marie Zilberman...

because I've been crying for all the children

lost in Putin's war against innocent Ukrainians,

and mass shootings here in the USA,

in movie theaters

in outdoor concerts

in churches

in supermarkets

in schools...

all the innocent people murdered.

I cry for them,

and for their murderers, that they would do such a thing.