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Palo Alto Community Garden

More Figures

Playing around with more watercolors at Tuesday's figure drawing class.

Campbell Farmer's Market

National Wildlife Preserve in Newark, Ca

Lunchtime Sketch

Coffee Shop watercolors

Some local folks at the local coffee shop.

Animal Drawings

I pulled these from the filing cabinet. Drawings from the zoo.

English Bulldogs/Pastel Experiment

First experiment with pastels and some dog portraits. Damn, I can't believe how these dogs can be so ugly and so darn cute at the same time!

The Barack O-Bomb!

Obama's likeness was much more difficult to capture than Arnold's. He's got a lot going on in the shapes of his mouth that are so important to his likeness. The ears are an obvious choice but everyone does that. This was an hour's worth of drawing and week's worth of research.

Our soon to be Ex-Governor

Arnie really is a handsome dude. The first two are the practice drawings where I couldn't quite get the likeness. The last image is a 20 minute sketch done after 2hrs of trying to get it right.

Figure Drawing from Palo Alto

Some more figure drawings as of late.

Caricaturez!

Some funny people at the local bookstore and coffee shop

Skullz!

Now I'm gonna do some value studies!

Carz!

I've been sketching some cars from a book. I always thought I knew perspective, in theory at least. Much more difficult in practice.

Christmas Cards

Drawings I had hoped to make into cards. Now they're just here on my blog. Both are live sketches done at San Jose's Christmas in the Park.

Figure Drawing on Black

Experiments with prismacolors on black recycled canson paper.

Dano Festival day 2

2nd day at the festival. Wooden Swings. Bridges. Dudes on bikes. Friends. Whale meat on the river.