12-24-07

12-23-07

I sat along the usually dry river bed and sketched two little drawings of snowmelt from a recent storm. It’s a popular walking area and everyone happening by wanted to glimpse what I was doing. That used to not bother me, but I guess I’m out of the habit of having folks looking over my shoulder.

sorry, no sketch today

Today was spent at a friend’s memorial and later trying to assemble my portfolios, along with trying to do daily things that must be done.

Thankfully, nothing (vegetation) froze too bad last night. Maybe I’ll do a drawing soon of those things that survived.

Today maybe was about survival and life and sadness and joy and moving to the future. I’m still wiping tears away.  But that’s just how I am. Took a long time for me to know that. I wish so much that I could be a greater comfort to my friend who suffered the loss of his wife of so many years. I hope he takes comfort in the wonderful children, grandchildren and friends he has, which are so many.

12-19-07

This was going to be a “make-up” day for the recent missing days, but I got to wandering around the park looking for a subject, and when I sat down to paint, I got quite engrossed. This is the first watercolor I’ve done in probably years! It was a day when I got in the zone, with great deliberation and concentration. I was concerned I would be too tight, trying to be too perfect. I let that go and tried to just have fun and get my daily drawing in. That seemed to work. Can’t make it too precious.

12-15-07

A day I was running out of time for a sketch, so the laptop proved to be a ready model.

12-13-07

Another coffee shop sketch. The drawing’s awful; the guys at the table were getting paranoid about me drawing. At least the Cubano was tasty.

12-12-07

Oops, missed the 11th. Keep saying I’ll do a make-up drawing, like THAT will ever happen…

This was another foggy day, quite unusual for us in the great southwest. Thought I was going to sketch the mountains playing hide-n-seek with the clouds, but when I looked across the valley, that seemed way more interesting at the moment.

12-10-07

Lucky Bamboo.

12-09-07

Happy 50th Anniversary, mom and dad! (don’t see this until we give you the card, alright?)