Autumn Techo

People need art, 

whether they realize it or not...

I am still doing

Hobonichi Techo drawings, with

 Sharpie pen and watercolors.

"We don' need Bed, Bath and Beyond

dentist-office art. We need

weird stuff."

County Fair Sketches

I attended the (Ohio) Fulton County Fair

a couple of times, and managed to

get some sketching done.  I used a 

Sharpie pen, Prismacolor watercolor

pencils, and a water brush. After finishing

the goat sketch, above, I began second-

guessing my rendering of the goat's legs,

and their proportion.(see my notes

on the page, click to enlarge)

 I tried to focus on the face, and awareness

 of the page layout. I want to break up

 the space on the page in an interesting way.

I signed up for Roz Stendahl's on-line class called

By Design: Creating The Intentional Page, 

which you can learn more about on her blog,

Roz Wound Up.  I like that the class is "at

your own pace," as life has a tendency to throw interesting situations at us at 

unexpected moments.  So far, I am learning

a lot about how to make a variety of page

styles, the impact of how the text is placed

on the page, and the impact of dark and

light areas in the overall composition. A lot

to think about, but it gets easier and more

intuitive with lots of practice!

Animals tend to move around...especially

just as you are trying to capture a 

particular feature! This cute Netherland 

Dwarf Rabbit was so fluffy, his face reminded

me of a toy teddy bear.  Of course he hopped

to the opposite side of the cage about half-way

through the drawing.

I'm still faithfully jotting down notes

and drawing in my Hobonich Techo.

Here's one of the days we went to

the fair. Entries were drawn before we

left, and then the next day.

Hoping to get back in the swing of posting

to the blog more regularly.  Trouble with

technology, and life transitions can make 

it difficult.  Daily art journaling helps

 keep me sane. Or, at least what

 passes for sane at our house! We all

have our own quirks...