Shades

Jolly

Face

Stuff I'm working on

Postcard size art

In the mail

This little dude is in the mail on it's merry way to the #twitterartexhibit I miss him already.

Before the knife

Grapefruit pictured on it's last day. (cue fruit dirge)

Also last day of 2015.

Onion

More ART inspired by Christmas gifts and holiday breaks. (and the produce that's available in the house)

Art Supplies are a great gift!

My bro keeps me in art supplies.  My annual Christmas present inspires!

300 Lessons

I have a large and mostly dusty stack of art books that I have accumulated over the years and most of those books have challenges, suggestions, techniques, how to's and exercises.  My intention WAS to go through them, one by one in order.  I realized there is a reason some of these are dusty. The challenge to go outdoors and paint from life is less than appealing on a 30 degree day.

I found an art lesson book called "300 Lessons in Art" by Robert Henkes copyright 1981 (for middle and high school aged kids)

Lesson #1 is to draw natural object with texture in pencil and then with felt tip pen. Frogs are pencil.  I didn't want to go over (as instructed) with felt tip pen so I did the peacock in pen instead.   I am guessing I get an "F" for not following instructions, but the texture was fun to do while watching "Back to the future 3".