Sammy Sketch

It was slow last night at work, so I decided to sketch a picture of Sam since season 2 of Supernatural is coming out on DVD next week. I used one of my smaller travel size sketchbooks, this time the one with brown paper, with brown, white, and a tiny bit of blue colored pencil. After I scanned it I added a hint of color in Photoshop, but not much. I didn't spend too much time on this, maybe an hour total between interruptions from helping gallery patrons.

Vintage Lady Sketch

Just another page out of my sketchbook. I did a "design your own movie poster" day with the kids during the last week of class, and they wanted me to draw with them, so this is what happened. One of the girls in the class picked something out from the stack of reference books and magazines for me to draw, so I was using a subscription tear out card from an issue of Vogue that had a photo of Keira Knightley for a loosely based inspiration.

Ink Paintings

During the last week of the children's art class, I taught a lesson on ink painting with bamboo brushes. I did two demonstrations - one in a more traditional Chinese style and one showing how they could adapt those methods to paint something based on subject matter from around the island. For the one about the island, I painted a picture of the cliffs on the beach in Aquinnah.

Sand Sculpture

I made a big sand sculpture on the beach yesterday. It's a giant fish, maybe about 8 or 9 feet long. My only tools were a shovel and stuff that I found on the beach, including rocks for his scaly fins, a plastic cup used to make scale shapes on the body, and some random sticks used for carving. It looked much more detailed and three dimensional in person than it does in the photos, but the sunlight was kind of washing things out in the pictures so you'll just have to take my word for it.

Last Day of Classes

Today is the last day of the children's art classes that I've been teaching at the art gallery this summer - I'll still be working at the gallery for now, though.

Last weekend the kids got to have their own art show here at the gallery. They were all very excited to have their work hung on the walls "just like the real artists!" One of the local newspapers even came to do a short story on the show, which was nice. I had a really good group of kids in class this year, and it made me happy to see how proud they were of what they made.

Polly Hill Arboretum

Just some sketches - an ink one and two watercolor ones - done yesterday at Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury.

Harry Potter sketch

Just a very speedy Harry Potter sketch.

T-Shirt Design

I decided that the art gallery that I'm working at needed a new t-shirt design. The one that we have now is horrible and we hardly sell any of them. See for yourself.



So I asked the people in charge if I could come up with a new design for the shirt. They're having a board meeting on Monday, so my design will be reviewed then. Here's what I've come up with. The building is a historical building (over 200 years old), and very distinctive looking, so I thought it only appropriate that it be included in the design. And the ropes and anchor are a nod to the gallery's boat building past. I think the design should be printed in white or light blue ink on a navy blue t-shirt.