January 14, 2010

Made it through 59 years.

Wonder what year 60 will bring.

Time has passed quickly

TGIFish Friday December 4, 2009

Capoeta Titteya or Cherry Barb. For my TGIFish Friday piece this week I decided to use the ATC format. Color pencil on Bristol.

Grand Central Bakery

I wanted to get my hand into drawing buildings in urban environments. I am not that happy with it for a couple of reasons. As I was concentrating on the building I got caught up in the building itself and didn't leave myself blank areas to put in some foreground items such as the Trimet route/stop sign. I will probably try this one again as this place makes a really good egg salad sandwich on olive bread.

December 2, 2009

We can't be certain, but I believe I know why we are unlikely to find badgers on Saturn's moon Titan. Color pencil in Moleskine

December 1, 2009

One of my favorites is the Science Channel. Last night I watched an episode of The Universe on the theme of liquids in the universe. When thinking of liquids we often consider only liquid H2O or water. The program took us to Saturn's moon Titan. There with temperatures of around -290 degrees water ice would be rock solid, however Methane would be in a liquid form rather than a gas as it would be here on Earth. Liquid methane would present different properties than liquid water. Liquid methane is less dense, clearer due to not breaking down materials as water does. Methane being less dense than water it was suggested that, for a 200 pound man, trying to dogpaddle in liquid methane it would be like trying to do so in water with an 80 weight wrapped around them. Then again, it would be a brave soul who would do so considering that the temperature would be around -290 degrees. Jupiter is a whole different set of circumstances with pressures and temps increasing to the point that liquid hydrogen appears. Continuing further the liquid hydrogen becomes liquid metallic hydrogen. From various computer generated images I sketched this small sketchbook image and an ATC taken from the sketchbook.

November 22, 2009

Color pencil on paper. Spent Saturday morning watching the grandkids. I spent a lot of the time with my feet elevated to get swelling down, but there was some time spent with them on my lap as we checked Papa's farm, cafe, and roller coaster park on facebook. No visit is ever complete without the light saber fight.

Imaginary landscape

Just playing with the color pencils.

TGiFF

I was in kind of a funk last night about what to sketch. Since the following day was Friday I thought this might be a good time to revive a theme I used for a time last year. Thank God it's Fish Friday. To kick off I did this little Puntius Tetrazona or Tiger Barb. Many years ago I used to have several aquariums and I always had a few of these. They could be aggressive but I never really had any trouble from them. The occasional nipped fin was about all I would witness. They were always an easy sell at the store I worked at back in the day. I managed the fish department in the hardware store I worked. We had about 30 tanks to display all types of fish and these guys were ever present. Beautiful in schools.

November 18, 2009

Clan of the Cave Dachshund. Not as well known as the Clan of the Cave Bear, but just as fierce.