Day two hundred and nine: Biking home from the UPS customer service center as dusk fell, I got to experience the view of downtown Philadelphia at night. It doesn’t really look like this. The sketch was co-inspired by a photograph by Paul Strand of rooftops of tall buildings that I saw from above. It doesn’t […]
Also tagged architectureDay two hundred and eight: Early in the morning when I’m sitting in my living room, the bookcase across from me is reflected in the glass coffee table. I know it’s silly, but it always appears to me as a giant bookcase beside a pool of water. Looking for a quick and easy subject to […]
Also tagged cartoon, landscape, pencilDay two hundred and five: After a full, productive weekend, I quickly sketched a combination lock that happened to be lying next to my computer. One of the things I was working on today was getting my bike ready for more commuting around Philadelphia for work and groceries and other errands. I use a similar […]
Also tagged pencil, still lifeDay two hundred and four: This busy Saturday was filled with house chores and weekend grocery shopping. I hit the Rittenhouse Square market this morning to buy fruits and vegetables for the week. I found some not-yet-ripe peaches that I put in a bowl with a couple of almost-too-ripe bananas, which should help speed up […]
Also tagged food, still lifeDay two hundred and two: Keeping it simple this fine Thursday evening, I quickly painted my salt shaker and pepper mill. One is old and short, while the other is tall and new. Yet I think of them as a set because their curved shapes are strikingly similar, and the painted red mill shares affinity […]
Also tagged food, still lifeDay one hundred and ninety-three: I guess it’s going to be a hit-and-miss kind of week. I rushed through this sketch inspired by a theoretical building design by the 18th-century French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée. I saw the original in the study gallery of the Uffizi in Florence a few years ago, and stumbled across a […]
Also tagged architecture, art on art, pencilDay one hundred and eighty-nine: Nothing fancy to complicated today. This simply painting was inspired by a fleeting view of a tunnel in an episode from the new Sherlock Holmes series that I was watching after dinner, desperately hoping to be inspired to draw rather than fall asleep. It’s been a long, wonderful, busy week […]
Also tagged abstract, architectureDay one hundred and eighty-five: This morning I found that the remaining cherries I bought at the market a couple days ago were very ripe and needed to be eaten. I immediately thought about making a pie. There wasn’t enough fruit for a full one, so I added some nectarine, blueberries, and strawberries, which is […]
Also tagged food, pencil, still lifeDay one hundred and eighty-three: Today marks the midway point of what my fellow daily sketcher, Sara W., has called a “possibly doomed” 365-day challenge to make a drawing a day for a year. Some days I’m inclined to agree. This evening I had no idea what to sketch, and stared at a blank white […]
Also tagged food, still lifeDay one hundred and eighty-one: My mom commented that yesterday’s sketched with Caprica riding in a car looked like a children’s book illustration. Today I decided to continue the theme and draw the UHAUL trailer. To work in my green-cheeked conure, changed the festive picture and the name of the city on the side. I […]
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