This sketch is the fifty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-seven: Today I made up a double batch of oatmeal peanut butter sandwich cookies. The recipe claims to be “so close” to the Girl Scout cookie equivalent that “you won’t know the difference.” These […]
Also tagged food, still lifeThis sketch is the fifty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-six: While watching the news on the built-in TVs in aerobic exercise machines at the gym, I became amazed at how many people around the world have recently been inspired by one another to […]
Also tagged cartoonThis sketch is the fifty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-five: This landscape was drawn after part of a snapshot one of my parents took when I was about 7, and we lived on a farm outside of Bemidji, MN. Making this picture helped […]
Also tagged landscape, natureThis sketch is the fifty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-two: Since snow-related parking restrictions began earlier this winter, an old yellow truck has appeared frequently on my block. I suspect its owner must live on a neighboring street, but has been forced by […]
Also tagged pencil, winter, yellowThis sketch is the forty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-nine: Yesterday morning, when I drove through Wisconsin, the fog was remarkably thick, and sometimes I could only see a few meters ahead of my car. This sketch is my impression from memory of […]
Also tagged fog, white, winterThis sketch is the forty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-six: The last few days I’ve been looking at the paintings of James Ensor, Emil Nolde, and Edvard Munch. This invention of mine, which was a scream to make, is a response to the […]
Also tagged abstract, art on art, ensor, face, munch, noldeThis sketch is the forty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-five: Fellow 365-day sketcher, Sara, creates awesome pictures in which figures and objects emerge from darkness. This mask was inspired by some mask-like faces in a drawing of hers from a couple days ago […]
Also tagged face, still life, whiteThis sketch is the forty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-four: This morning when I went outside the unexpectedly warm air smelled like Spring. It reminded me of early season rowing when the air is warm, the water is dark and cold, and there […]
Also tagged athlete, self portrait, waterThis sketch is the forty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-one: At Kowalski’s I sometimes like to get a sushi sampler as a treat. It’s quite fresh because there a little sushi station in the deli area, and a man makes it on the […]
Also tagged abstract, art on art, food, still lifeThis sketch is the fortieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty: I’d like to say this was a plein-air painting, but that would mean I wasn’t in Minnesota today, which I am. Not that winter is really so unbearable, but I must admit that […]
Also tagged landscape, nature, water