Bugfest
I just found out that Saturday is bugfest!! Is it raining out or is that just my mouth a watering?
More info posted soon!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Apex Art Skeleton Drawings
Hey, if you would like to see some really neat drawings, stop by the Apex High School Art Blog and see what my students did the first week of school.
Thanks!
Hey, if you would like to see some really neat drawings, stop by the Apex High School Art Blog and see what my students did the first week of school.
Thanks!
Zoo
Yesterday, we went to the zoo and I took my sketchbook. How funny after painting mammoths all weekend that this guy walked right up to us.
Usually, they are way down on the other side of the world. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad these pachyderms have hundreds of acres to romp but it doesn’t always make for the best viewing. So this was way cool to have him only a few feet away.
Drawing animals, even what you might consider slow moving animals, is hard work. They really don’t hold still like you might think. I did a lot of gesture type sketches trying to capture the essence of elephant, (which is a new perfume I’m working on). I really like this sketch with the squiggly trunk. I’m going to have to do more with…. Coming soon to a blog near you.
After the zoo, my body decided to stop playing games with the ear infection I’ve been wrestling with all week. I had a raging fever with the most icky chills. If you’ve ever been under a heap of blankets but still felt like you were standing barefoot in the penguin house then you know what I’m talking about.
Yesterday, we went to the zoo and I took my sketchbook. How funny after painting mammoths all weekend that this guy walked right up to us.
Usually, they are way down on the other side of the world. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad these pachyderms have hundreds of acres to romp but it doesn’t always make for the best viewing. So this was way cool to have him only a few feet away.
Drawing animals, even what you might consider slow moving animals, is hard work. They really don’t hold still like you might think. I did a lot of gesture type sketches trying to capture the essence of elephant, (which is a new perfume I’m working on). I really like this sketch with the squiggly trunk. I’m going to have to do more with…. Coming soon to a blog near you.
After the zoo, my body decided to stop playing games with the ear infection I’ve been wrestling with all week. I had a raging fever with the most icky chills. If you’ve ever been under a heap of blankets but still felt like you were standing barefoot in the penguin house then you know what I’m talking about.
Momentum
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My first thought was, Toby Mac. You know; I'm a man on a mission, my position is Momentum.
But then I thought, nothing says momentum like a falling pack of woolly mammoths. Right?
click to see it all
My first thought was, Toby Mac. You know; I'm a man on a mission, my position is Momentum.
But then I thought, nothing says momentum like a falling pack of woolly mammoths. Right?
Saturday, September 08, 2007
So play Bass
Every time I stand up I get dizzy. I’m pretty sure I have an inner ear infection. My eyes are puffy, my nose is stuffy, so what’s a guy to do. Play bass.
Cloak and Dagger, done best by Percy Heath, and most poorly by me, especially with an inner ear infection.
ps, if you are really sharp you might see a wog sitting in the background :)
Every time I stand up I get dizzy. I’m pretty sure I have an inner ear infection. My eyes are puffy, my nose is stuffy, so what’s a guy to do. Play bass.
Cloak and Dagger, done best by Percy Heath, and most poorly by me, especially with an inner ear infection.
ps, if you are really sharp you might see a wog sitting in the background :)
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Tag, I’m it.
Karen Lee tagged me with a meme which I guess is a way for me to bore you with what are suppose to be interesting facts about me. I know, a thrill a minute! So here it goes.
The Rules:
Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names (see below), then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
8. I used to be a Wombat:
In my college days, I was the lead singer and bass player for the Wombats. We toured around NYC playing small venues whenever we could get a chance. Claim to fame was playing CBGB’s which was pretty fab in the day. I’ve written at least 500 original songs (some half decent), all of which are recorded on tape and collecting dust in a box in my closet.
7. I am a professional bagel baker:
having baked bagels for Brueggers in NC and Zaros in NY (to name a few).
6. I like gospel music:
I have 103.9 the Light programmed into my jeep’s radio. I’m probably the only white boy who would know how the Melissa Wade in the water song goes or could tell you the difference between Kirk Franklin and the Kirk Carr Singers.
5. I have a collection of political memorabilia:
Especially, but not limited to, Richard Nixon. Items include bumper stickers, pins/buttons, magazines and old newspapers. I even have a copy of the August 9th, 1974 New York Post, the day Nixon announced his resignation.
4. I wanted to be a toy designer:
In college I seriously considered a career in toy design, having developed prototypes, created a portfolio and interviewed with several NYC companies.
3. I have strange tastes buds:
I will try anything at least once, especially if it contains weird stuff like insects, mollusks or other invertebrates. Possibly the strangest meal I have ever consumed was fried mealworms in butter and garlic. They have a nutty flavor.
2. My photo is on the wall at Buffalo Wild Wings:
I love hot, spicy foods. Not just hot but insanely hot foods. I have a collection of hot sauces that could melt metal. So when Buffalo Wild Wings had a contest to see if someone could eat 12 of their Blazen wings in under 6 minutes, I was up for the challenge. That’s some hot sauce but I won a t-shirt and my face posted on their winner wall.
1. I once wrote Debbie Gibson a fan letter.
So to be meme’d...
Steve
Kathleen Rietz
Platinum Blonde
Carla
Karen Lee tagged me with a meme which I guess is a way for me to bore you with what are suppose to be interesting facts about me. I know, a thrill a minute! So here it goes.
The Rules:
Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names (see below), then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
8. I used to be a Wombat:
In my college days, I was the lead singer and bass player for the Wombats. We toured around NYC playing small venues whenever we could get a chance. Claim to fame was playing CBGB’s which was pretty fab in the day. I’ve written at least 500 original songs (some half decent), all of which are recorded on tape and collecting dust in a box in my closet.
7. I am a professional bagel baker:
having baked bagels for Brueggers in NC and Zaros in NY (to name a few).
6. I like gospel music:
I have 103.9 the Light programmed into my jeep’s radio. I’m probably the only white boy who would know how the Melissa Wade in the water song goes or could tell you the difference between Kirk Franklin and the Kirk Carr Singers.
5. I have a collection of political memorabilia:
Especially, but not limited to, Richard Nixon. Items include bumper stickers, pins/buttons, magazines and old newspapers. I even have a copy of the August 9th, 1974 New York Post, the day Nixon announced his resignation.
4. I wanted to be a toy designer:
In college I seriously considered a career in toy design, having developed prototypes, created a portfolio and interviewed with several NYC companies.
3. I have strange tastes buds:
I will try anything at least once, especially if it contains weird stuff like insects, mollusks or other invertebrates. Possibly the strangest meal I have ever consumed was fried mealworms in butter and garlic. They have a nutty flavor.
2. My photo is on the wall at Buffalo Wild Wings:
I love hot, spicy foods. Not just hot but insanely hot foods. I have a collection of hot sauces that could melt metal. So when Buffalo Wild Wings had a contest to see if someone could eat 12 of their Blazen wings in under 6 minutes, I was up for the challenge. That’s some hot sauce but I won a t-shirt and my face posted on their winner wall.
1. I once wrote Debbie Gibson a fan letter.
So to be meme’d...
Steve
Kathleen Rietz
Platinum Blonde
Carla
Monday, September 03, 2007
Alphabets
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Practicing my stored shark symbols. Not to difficult. I have been drawing sharks the same way since Jaws (4th grade). Now that is a stored symbol!
In other news, I am really ticked off at my scanner. What’s its problem? Why can’t it work? It wasn’t cheap (price) but it scans like (grrrrrrr!)
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Practicing my stored shark symbols. Not to difficult. I have been drawing sharks the same way since Jaws (4th grade). Now that is a stored symbol!
In other news, I am really ticked off at my scanner. What’s its problem? Why can’t it work? It wasn’t cheap (price) but it scans like (grrrrrrr!)
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Edge of the Forest
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All week long I have been training my students not to use stored symbols, to draw what they see. We ran through all the know exercises, blind contour drawing, drawing something upside down, drawing positive and negative space, etc… So what a hypocrite I am sitting at my art desk practicing my stored deer symbols!
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Here is the entire image.
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All week long I have been training my students not to use stored symbols, to draw what they see. We ran through all the know exercises, blind contour drawing, drawing something upside down, drawing positive and negative space, etc… So what a hypocrite I am sitting at my art desk practicing my stored deer symbols!
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Here is the entire image.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Goldfish
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Well, I never drew fish before so the learning thing is, doodle first.
I should have sat and doodled a few fish. I jumped right in which worked ok for the previous giraffe cause I've drawn giraffes lots. It even worked ok for the goldfish on the right. But the fish climbing out, not so much. OK, it's still a learning process.
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Well, I never drew fish before so the learning thing is, doodle first.
I should have sat and doodled a few fish. I jumped right in which worked ok for the previous giraffe cause I've drawn giraffes lots. It even worked ok for the goldfish on the right. But the fish climbing out, not so much. OK, it's still a learning process.
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