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Sketch A Day: pebble, prey, stag, filter, fresh, paws, southern

August 9, 2022
drawing: A black crow dropping gray pebbles into a container of blue water, a la Aesop's fable of the thirsty crow.
pebble
drawing: a gray kitty doing a wiggle-butt pose while it stalks an orange leaf.
prey
drawing: black line drawing of the close up of a deer's antlers, from the eyes on up. Written stylistically like antlers is the word Stag.
stag
drawing: three plants (one with purple flowers, one with yellow flowers, and one with red flowers) and their long roots. Caption: Native plants - nature's water filtration system
filter
drawing: a purple bowl of fruit - apple, red pear, banana, orange, green grapes.
fresh
drawing: black and white drawing of a glass of soda pop with a couple of cat paws on the table to either side of the glass. Less obvious are the tips of cat ears between the paws and cola. Caption: The Paws that Refreshes..."
paws
drawing: pastel-style painting of bougainvilla flowers and leaves. (Lots of fuchsia and green.)
southern
Sketch A Day: pebble, prey, stag, filter, fresh, paws, southern (traced on stag & southern).
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Sketch A Day: crinkle, feast, whole, lean, mole, cocktail, triple

August 1, 2022

Still on my black line drawing kick.

drawing: cartoon/pastel style drawing of a gold and red crinkle ball with a cat paw, purple nails extended, batting it while the nose & whiskers of another cat watch on.
crinkle
drawing: a sketch of a kitten moving over to a large dog food bowl with a mound of food in it. The bowl is labeled "Fido."
feast
drawing: black line drawing of a cow with gray spots and hooves. The words "whole milk" point at the udder.
whole
drawing: stylized black line drawing of the leaning tower of Pisa (loosely traced) with a cartoon person dropping two spheres. The implication is that they arrived at the same time. Equation delta v over delta t is proportional to F over m.
lean
drawing: cartoon sketch of a mole in a labcoat holding a graduated cylinder with 18mL of water in it. Caption: a mole holding a mole of water molecules.
mole
drawing: black line drawing of a cocktail glass with a red cherry and umbrella.
cocktail
drawing: stylized sketch of three cats sitting side by side, a black cat flanked by two white ones.
triple
Sketch A Day: crinkle, feast, whole, lean, mole, cocktail, triple. Used instructions for the kitten in feast and the cow in whole. Loosely traced the leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Sketch A Day: greet, keen, grip, belly, central, fleet, lens

July 25, 2022July 27, 2022

I like pen & ink style drawings, and I like making drawings that look like pen & ink. This week had several.

drawing: black line drawing of a dog sniffing the butt of another dog while it wags its tail.
greet
drawing: a brown hair held between thumb and forefinger while a sharp (keen) knife slices it into two pieces
keen
drawing: closeup black line drawing (traced) of a hand gripping a bow with a nocked arrow.
grip
drawing: black line drawing of a kitty lying on its back and showing off its belly.
belly
drawing: black line sketch of sleeping cat with labeled items around it: food bowl labeled "kitty," food bag labeled "Food for Kitty," litter box labeled "Kitty Loo," soft comfy oval labeled "Kitty Bed." and stuffed mouse and "Catnip Toy."
central
drawing: black backgorund, gray sketch of Star Trek's USS Enterprise flying through space with random stars in the background.
fleet
drawing: black background, white and yellow chalk illustration of parallel rays of light hitting a converging lens (the rays on the other side of the double convex lens meet at one point) and a diverging lens (the rays on the other side of the double concave lense point away from the samt point). The lenses are labeled "converging" and "diverging."
lens
Sketch A Day: greet, keen, grip, belly, central, fleet, lens. Traced on grip. Drawing instructions for belly from Lee J Ames’ How To Draw 50 Cats (though I found it elsewhere for the day of drawing).
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2022 Trip to Michigan

July 20, 2022

On July 12, 2022, I drove up to Elsa Frohman & Judi Grant’s house because the three of us were going to travel to Traverse City and beyond. We left the next morning after breakfast at a nearby diner. Our first stop at a road stop had some irate gulls with strong opinions.

Gull at a road stop in Michigan yelling at the world.
Angry Gull at Road Stop in Michigan
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Sketch A Day: siege, bash, raw, cosmic, pink, heal, clog

July 18, 2022July 20, 2022
drawing: top down view of a ballista, a type of catapult that was very similar to a crossbow. It has a spear as its ammunition.
siege
drawing: tall grass behind a pair of cartoony field mice with a white sign held up by a brown post. Sign has a stylized black drawing of a rabbit with the following in red: WANTED for crimes against field mice." (OK, so I misremembered the song Little Bunny Foo Foo as "bash" not "bop")
bash
drawing: two cartoon-style raw carrots with green leaves atop a silver plate behing hed by a white gloved hand with gray arms. Caption: "Hasenpfeffer* *according to Buggs Bunny"
raw
drawing: dark purple night sky over black hills with many colored stars and galaxies. Inspired by the new photos from JWST.
cosmic
drawing: close up view of the Pink Panther - only eyes and bridge of nose. Drawn mostly using shape tools.
pink
drawing: black line drawing of a person sleeping on a bed with a cat curled up alseep on top of them. A caption of "Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" is above the pair.
heal
drawing: black kitten sitting in a wooden clog shoe that has a little decoration on the bridge.
clog
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Sketch A Day: gentle, amphibian, churn, gamble, same, one, hawk

July 12, 2022
drawing: little gray-striped kitty "hugging" a little baby duck. Digitally painted over a photo.
gentle
drawing: traced and colored green frog (caption: Trapoline frog (green frog) Lithobates claimtans)
amphibian
drawing: pencil-style drawing of an old fashioned butter churn. Watercolor paint over top it all.
churn
drawing: green table top with red, green, blue, black poker chips in the center with a few playing cards around the chips.
gamble
drawing: black background, charcoal white kitty curled up asleep (front paws tucked & tail around body) with gray outline. Caption "Same, Kitty. Same..."
same
drawing: chartreuse colored buzzard (traced) on a dead stump. Caption "One Chartreuse Buzzard"
one
drawing: black background with white pencil-style sketch of a hawk flying right at the viewer, holding a branch in its talons. Yellow eyes accent the sketch.
hawk
Sketch A Day: gentle, amphibian, churn, gamble, same, one, hawk. Traced on gentle, amphibian, one, and hawk. Lots of tracing this week.
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Sketch A Day: holy, prototype, gear, motorcycle, ready, factory, complete

July 4, 2022
drawing: white line tracing of an Ancient Egyptian cat statue on black background. Caption "Bastet"
holy
drawing: blueprint-style sketch of a cat-faced device for knocking things over. Caption: Cat Knocker 3000. Labels: object, knocking arm, crank shaft, motor, elastic band, and tabletop.
prototype
drawing: black charcoal line drawing of a large gear.
gear
drawing: a tracing of the cover of The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. Motorcycle is red, mouse is mostly gray.
motorcycle
sketch: "painting" of pink-ish wildflowers with a bee on one. Green background. Traced from photo that I took earlier that day at Sillwater Prairie Reserve.
ready
drawing: three open cardboard boxes with central one containing smiling black cat. Caption: "QC at the Cardboard Box Factory."
factory
drawing: finished puzzle of a stylized brown cat and water-color purple background.
complete
Sketch A Day: holy, prototype, gear, motorcycle, ready, factory, complete. Traced on holy, motorcycle, and ready. (“Ready” was from a photo I’d taken earlier that day at Stillwater Prairie Reserve.)
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Sketch A Day: brake, near, operate, accident, crescent, iron, enemy

June 27, 2022June 29, 2022
drawing: black background with a white pedestrian crossing. A sylized mama duck (white) and two stylized baby ducks (yellow) are crossing.
brake
drawing: a blue monster (who is NOT Grover, despite the similarities) close to the front labeled "Near" with a second, inverted, blue monster in a window behind with the caption "Not really far, just an illusion due to size and perspective.'
near
drawing: the Operation game's man drawn with his parts in place. Yellow background. Traced the man & the openings. Free-handed the items in the openings.
operate
drawing: black line drawing of smiling cat on a table with two glasses of water (illustrated with blue(. There's a third, broken, glass on the floor below the cat, with water spilling out.
accident
drawing: black background, light and dark gray circles, half circles, and crescents representing the phases of the moon. Captions: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent.
crescent
drawing: cartoon-style drawing of IronCat (a cat in an Ironman-style costume).
iron
drawing: dog sleeping with arm around a kitty. Traced.
enemy
Sketch A Day: brake, near, operate, accident, crescent, iron, enemy. Traced on “operate” and “enemy.”
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Sketch A Day: elvis, beat, lunch, circus, axis, johnny, may

June 20, 2022
drawing: Evis, but with pointed ears and a pointier nose and wearing a greann vest & shirt. Caption "ELVIS(H)" (traced with elvish modifications)
elvis
drawing: a red drum with two drumsticks, stylized.
beat
drawing: black line drawing of a lady trying to eat a sandwich while two cats on the table mew for attention with the closer one reaching for the sandwich.
lunch
drawing: crayon-brush drawing of a ring in a circus being watched by an audience. In the ring is an elephant standing on hind legs & playing with a ball, a clown, a lion & tamer, and a trapeze artist overhead.
circus
drawing: black line drawing of a partly shaded sphere with an axis that isn't parallel to the shading. (Like the earth & its axis vs sunlight). Caption: "Axial Tilt is the Reason for the Seasons"
axis
drawing: a mirrored view of Johnny written in cursive and then a design colored in. The design is a purple and green bird. Caption: "The Johnny Bird by Trina Short (age 51)"
johnny
drawing: Linus (my cat) laying in the grass with a dandelion plant held between his paws. Traced a phot of Linus lying on the bed.
May
Sketch A Day: elvis, beat, lunch, circus, axis, johnny, may (traced on Elvis(h) with mods, and May – from a photo of Linus laying on the bed and johnny is a drawing made from a mirror-image of cursive “Johnny”)
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Sketch A Day: design, fail, boss, ask, length, scene, dice

June 13, 2022June 15, 2022
drawing: radiating lines and offset circles made with white lines with various shades of purple shading in the shapes made. Somewhat symmetrical on the diagonal.
design
drawing: Wile E Coyote holding onto a bit of cliff edge for dear life, only the cliff edge has been separated from the rest of the cliff. Large "FAIL!" on the sketch as well. Traced & colored.
fail
drawing: black line drawing of two cats with "My cats *ARE* the BOSS of Me!"
boss
drawing: black line drawing of a cat displaying its belly (and feetsies with toe beans!). Text: "Is she asking for pets? Or is it a TRAP?!" Drawn using instructions from Draw 50 Cats by Lee J Ames.
ask
drawing: black background, yellow chalk drawing of a meter long stick with object beside it, a decimeter-divided stick with same object beside it, and a centimeter-divided stick with the same object beside it. Text on the 1 meter long stick is "object is .1 m long." Text on the 10 decimeter stick is "object is .13 m long." And Text on the 100 centimeter stick is "object is .136m long." A study in precision, in other words.
length
drawing: kitten holding an empty bowl with the caption "Please miss, I want some me-ore!" a la Oliver Twist. Kitten traced.
scene
drawing: black background, two cubes decorated to look like dice. Five and two pips showing on the faces.
dice
Sketch A Day: design, fail, boss, ask, length, scene, dice. Traced fail and scene. Used Draw 50 Cats by Lee J Ames for help with ask.
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