I am an artist that paints in pastels, with some oils, and acrylics. I sketch in pen and ink. As an artist my original paintings are influenced from living in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, and travels throughout much of Canada and all our fifty States.
This is my spot for posting paintings and sketches, to muse mostly about art, life and a little about UT Baseball.
Today was my day out. It was a lovely one. I sketched in the mobile studio. It was about 84º and no shade so just sat in the
car for the first two. That big pine tree is near the house so was in the
shade.
Number 1 building - a new County office building I hadn't even noticed.
Off the main road, I've been driving and Gene thinks all buildings
are new with his vision. (Smiling) in the Ohuhu Mix Media sketchbook -
almost finished - with Ohuhu 03 and watercolors
Number 2 nature - trees right near the house where I found shade.
Number 3 outdoors - trailer park and Number 4 funky - a silver fire
hydrant, I thought they had to be red or yellow or bright blue. Hmmm.
The trailer park is catty corner from the Bastrop Roadhouse. Another addition I hadn't noticed. It is right on the turn from Loop 150/Hwy 21. We usually don't turn that way and we hadn't noticed. What caught my eye was a little building that advertised coffee and juices. A latte was calling my name. I had to go all the way to Hwy 71 and back by Buc-ee's to get there. A tiny little place which really specializes in fruit smoothies with protein powder in them. Bagels and avocado toast were on the menu as well. I ordered a coffee with cream as there was no special coffees or latte. They were out of coffee except for cold brew. I went ahead and ordered that. Iced coffee is just not the same to me as a good "cup of Joe". Nice lady and a little table in the shade to sketch the trailer park behind the building.
I got some Subway items for our dinner. BMT sandwich for Gene and tuna salad for me which I ate on a rice cake to get the sandwich feeling. Pretty good now after years of eating rice cakes. Good crunch! I do not care for flavored ones, just the lightly salted plain ones. I don't care for flavored chips or odd candy or crackers. Give me the old standards.
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Gene had a dentist appointment today. We went on the right day! I sketched out the window for the Hunt. It was another beautiful day. The crown took about 1.5 hours. Amazing. Start to finish: prepare and measure, make tooth, bake it, put the tooth in permanently.
Number 5 roof - the Bastrop City Hall Building and Number 6 vehicle - a white panel truck. It must be the dog catcher which now is called animal control I imagine.
I sketched in the small Canson sketchbook with plain paper and an Ohuhu 0.2 pen.
The Christmas cactus called for sketching a houseplant. It has one bloom left that hasn't quite opened. They were pretty this year. Very white! The sketch covers about 1/3 of the page of the large Canson Mixed Media sketchbook. That makes it about 5 x 7 inches. Drawn with graphite and colored with watercolor. A few strokes of ink with a Micron 03 ended it all.
Before getting out the watercolors I sketched at my computer desk with a Micron'02 in the same sketchbook under the sketch of Gene so about 1/2 page. Number 3, elephant and Number 4, hand
The elephants are made of rock maybe. They say made in Kenya. Sort of heavy in a dark gray material. I don't remember where they came from. I know they were a gift so I feel bad that I don't remember. Maybe it is in my blog. I have sketched them before. I found the sketch. I didn't post about the gifter.
Also the baseball games I mentioned previously are next weekend. Two things I had the wrong date in my mind, almost the same day. Yikes. Baseball and dentist so no connection.
I Grew up in a small town , Magdalena, New Mexico. I enjoy art and the pleasure other people get from my work. I always donate some of my sales and art to charities, especially for children. That started in Bolivia with Para los Niños.
"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." --
Winston Churchill
