EDM #203 Draw a glass of juice

EDM #203 Draw a glass of juice
Originally uploaded by NeonFog

Glass of orange juice in an old TraveLodge glass. The glass has a very cool old "Sleepy Bear" logo which I elected to leave off.

EDM #101 Draw a bar of soap

EDM #101 Draw a bar of soap
Originally uploaded by NeonFog

The first attempt at drawing a bar of soap yielded something that looked more like a rock with a serious fungus issue. Plain old bar soap is hard to draw as something interesting.

Though I think the soap looks more like an egg , I had an opportunity to practice bubbles. The bubbles look so happy.

2288 Shore Drive, Halifax, NS

2288 Shore Drive, Halifax, NS
Originally uploaded by NeonFog

Done for this month's Virtual Paintout of Nova Scotia. This is a golf club located on an old military installation complete with bunkers.
I am not the best landscape painter (no kidding) but I have to practice.

EDM #20 Draw something "Dad"

EDM #20 Draw something "Dad"
Originally uploaded by NeonFog

Originally I was inspired by the EDM challenge to "Draw a knife or blade". I choose my dad's pocketknife which he carried everywhere and used for everything - work (he was a T.V. Repairman), fishing, fixing the car. The knife invokes so many memories of him it was only fitting as nothing else I have really fit the category.

Monthly Sketch Project - November 2009

This is my first sketch for the Monthly Sketch Project. It is a bottle from a picture Leslie Hawes submitted. Normally I don't have trouble with shadows but I think it may have had something to do with the mysterious flying object we had yesterday evening.

EDM #71 - Draw something representing your favorite sport

EDM #71 - Draw something representing your favorite sport
Originally uploaded by NeonFog

Major League Baseball has been my favorite since I was a little baby. Having been born and lived all my life in the San Francisco Bay Area naturally I am a Giants fan (I will go to A's games if the Giants are out of town). This baseball is a real live foul ball. Jack Clark (former Giant who was with the Padres at the time of the foul ball) hit it off of Scott Garrelts of the Giants at a night game at Candlestick when the Giants were still there.

This ball is actually very dirty. The umpires rub special mud on the ball to remove the shine prior to each game. Also pitchers have dirt (and who knows what else) on their hands. There is a mark on the other side where the ball was hit.

AJS Lesson #5

I created these pieces in one long session today. Sometimes once I get going - and this was after I painted the cell phone for the EDM challenge. My normal color ranges is the pieces numbered 7-9 but I was trying to work out of my comfort zone.

All pieces on watercolor paper 1. Pastels (I didn't intend to make it look like Saturn) 2. Gesso over collage (newsprint, scrapbook paper, pages from a book) 3. Roller sponge with acrylic paint 4. Created patterns with glaze medium and acrylic paint over painted background - used finger and toothpicks to create squiggles 5. Monoprint from acrylic paint on palette paper mixed with a brayer - dry bush over print 6. Stencil layers made from stencils created from punches.

7. Crayon rubbing of wall heater and of light switch plate 8. Rubber stamps inked over acrylic paint 9. Sprayed and splattered ink over acrylic paint allowing it to drip 10. Pale paint wash 11. Water based oil pastels to build intense color 12. Tissue layers over paint and gesso (unfortunately the gold layer does not show its intensity in the scan.



13. Bonus piece created with coffee grounds poured wet directly on the paper. A wee bit messy process but I like the results.