Couple

Still sketching with multiple colored pens. This one I titled, Couple. After Thanksgiving I'll go out and get some different colors beside red, blue, green and black. I don't really know how light fast these things are. Most of what I read says these pens are not but we'll see.

Around the Block

Here is a new sketch. I was drawing in some dim light and had not realized that when I left off drawing in black ink, I had picked a blue pen and started again. I decided, 'what the heck' and picked up the green and red pen also. I titled this piece, Around The Block; seems like an apt title.

A couple of new sketches

I've always thought of myself as pretty much a cartoonists and I've been doing mostly sketches these days,whether in the computer or on paper. Here are two new ones I just completed. The second sketch I thought about for some time as to whether I would post it or not because of its licentious subject matter (I don't want to offend anyone). Anyway, I posted it because I felt it was an interesting sketch and pretty funny also. The first sketch is inspired by a place I go past on my drive home from work. The building is an oddity; a sort of throw back to another time stuck in the middle of the usual strip mall chain stores that repeat themselves all across America.

Urban scene 3

Here is the completed scene 3. I also added the mosaic of how all three sketches fit together to create the street scene. Unfortunately, the mosaic does not display well when clicked on because I can't make it large enough here but it is meant to be printed and hung on a wall anyway.

Urban scene 3

I thought I'd post this sketch. It isn't finished yet but I wanted to keep the string of posts going. This sketch will fit to the left of the last post in my on going mosaic. My characters are becoming stranger which I like.

Moving down the street

This is the next in a series of sketches meant to be displayed as a mosaic, one next to the other. I probably will have 12 drawings all together when I'm done. I seem to do one every morning, so this is not a particularly laborious task. You can see where the yellow car is joined with the car in the last post. I also lined the mortar lines up.

Urban scene 2

This is another sketch done with my wacom tablet. This is to be part of a series of sketches that when printed and placed end to end and top to bottom will make a large image of whatever dimension I decide to stop at, sort of mural like. I like the idea of mounting prints directly to the wall with small pins and avoiding the costly and bothersome process of framing everything. I saw a past show here in Washington D.C. of the work of Wolfgang Tilman and many of his photos were mounted directly to the wall with pins. I felt that was a terrific way to present the images. It is my understanding that a protective spray can be applied to block UV fading and protect the inks.