Yes, it's a cow...

As promised, I'm posting something other than a rhino. It is a cow, in fact. I do love cows. Love their eyes and their always nosy expressions. They always look like they are demanding to get in on the secret--whatever the secret may be.


It has been such a nice day today, but I've spent most of it inside being lazy. I did go out earlier and bought a pot of purple petunias. They're beautiful, but I hope I can keep them alive. I have this tendency to forget to water things. I put them right outside my living room window, so seeing them right in front of me (as I am on the ground level) should remind me to give them a drink now and then.

OK, another rhino...

OK, here's another rhino in colored pencil. I promise I'll post something different next time.

more rhinos

Well, what did you expect? I will always draw rhinos. Anyway, more playing around with colored pencil. I am finding colored pencil, once I get started, to be very relaxing. Now that I have a pencil sharpener that is working well and sharpening things wicked sharp, I am happy. The colors that I keep reaching for over and over tend to be black cherry, black grape, indigo blue, dark purple, peacock green, peacock blue, slate grey, and light cerulean blue. I guess these are my rhino colors. One of these days I'm going to try another portrait.

I'm feeling distressed as I'm supposed to be hosting the weekend drawing event this weekend and the wetcanvas site has been down for a couple of days. I did receive an e-mail from them that it should be working sometime soon, but won't be back to normal until somewhere around the end of the month. I was really looking forward to hosting and I have a feeling this will put a damper on my fun:( I did just e-mail one of the moderators and asked her if I should plan on business as usual. We'll see what happens...

A sketch

This is one of my efforts for this week's weekend drawing event. I drew it on my new pad of 6x6 bristol board. These 6x6 pads were a very exciting find. They're perfect for the weekend drawing event where you have to post your work after 2 hours. As I usually work with graphite or colored pencil, I don't get much done if I'm working larger. Anyway, as usual, the scanner didn't cooperate and I lost all the shading in face, but all in all, I'm happy with this sketch.

My first attempt with drafting film

I kept reading about drafting film and wanted to give it a try. It was very strange working on something that you could see the background of the surface you were working on through the paper. It was hard to see, at first. I did lay down color on both sides, which was also odd. Anyway, I plan on working on this more and we'll see where it goes. All in all, an odd, but somewhat pleasant experience...