hand of kali…

My tablet’s been down for a while (vista nastyness!) - finally re-setup with XP again. Ah, the love hate realtionship with digital! Anyway, this is another (third? fourth?) try testing out custom brushes in photoshop. I think I like what’s happening here (click image to enlarge)  - kind of got a ragged, streaky flat brush going - seems to feel more painterly to me.

(photo ref: deathkitten9000, hands of kali)

nightcrawl…

I was out of town for the last official sketchcrawl so I had to go do a nightcrawl to make up for it! I went up to the Civic Center on Van Ness - to sketch the uplights on the buildings. Tonight is the SF Pride opening - so it’s all done up in rainbow colors. I guess the party is in full swing. (both ways)…

no drawing makes me sad….

Arg! it’s been sooooo long - over a week with no drawing!!! Going back home is great and all that, friends family and seeing the rockies again - but now I’ve got to flake the rust off :)

Here’s a quick one from a flickr self-portraitist: (photo here)

on holiday…

out for a week - hopefully will return with some doodles…depending on how much waiting in airports goes on…

this is why no drawings last weekend…

my first job as a ‘party artist’…. fun- but they take all the drawings home with them!

femme fatal!

…’finished’ sketch from the second half of Audra’s Odessa’s latest pose….

thursday night portrait party

We had a wicked drawing session tonight - my sketches are my usual bla bla bla, but maybe I’ll get to post the other guy’s stuff later - they all rocked it tonight, and of course so did Odessa!

Night Sketching, Market Street…

This is something I’ve wanted to get around to for a while now - I happened to be downtown for dinner tonight, so on the way back I did a couple of night drawings on Market Street. I’ve always like the lighting there - I’d love to set up and plein air sometime - anyone want to do a 9 to midnight PA outing!?! - we’ll see how that goes someday…nobody accosted me, and I didn’t get questioned by the cops - so, we’ll see - maybe there’ll be more of these late night drawings…

Sketching the Bay Bridge…

This is basically right out side my door…I feel guilty whenever I go by here and don’t stop for a sketch :)

These three are walking northeast under the bridge looking for good painting spots - i think I like the last one - standing in the middle of the train tracks…

Quetzalcharcoatl…

Here’s a few more of our fast becoming favorite model; Quetzal….(sorry about the title, that’s just the way my mind works)…I really wish I’d brought my paints, as I’d have loved to have done this pose with the full effect of the lava rock and silver necklace…Laurel (my wife) was working all afternoon to get the jewelery ready for the sitting!