3 posts tagged “colored pencil”

For those of you who are interested, my car was totaled in the hit & run. I keep trying to stay positive by thinking: "at least no one was in the car" and "at least I didn't have to pay my really high deductible" and "at least I got a bunch of streetglass." Besides the fact that no one was hurt, they're pretty small consolations for the week-long headache of getting a new car. Which I did on Monday - well, it's a new used car... Actually, it's sort of a beater, but it runs well, smells like soap, has decent gas mileage, and gets me where I need to go. And that extra money from the car is going into the house kitty.

Since the accident, I haven't scribbled (or exercised or cooked or cleaned the house or ... ), but I'm finally starting to feel sane enough to start up again, and I hope to have something new to post tomorrow. I spent the last several days as a giant ball of stress, and I know I was a pain to any/everyone who had deal with me in real life. Apologies to all of you. Anyway, to make up for my grumpiness and my last few whining posts, I thought I'd post two drawings from last week. Hope you enjoy.

I go through hot & cold spells with almost everything. With how little I've posted lately, I guess two back-to-back posts almost make this a hot streak for vox.

This is a hot & cold time of year for me. Maybe it's the weather. Maybe I'm realizing the year is slipping by and I haven't done as much as I hoped. I rarely have a New Year's resolution, but for some reason have decided to make a mid-year resolution. Here are most of the things on my list: 1) I am going to get fit enough to go backpacking next summer. To do that, 2) I will exercise three days a week and 3) take vitamins. 4) I will draw (at least) every day that I do not exercise, and 5) I will look into taking an art class at the museum. Whether or not the museum art class happens, 6) I will explore starting a series of paintings of playground things and 7) I will  take a crocheting class so I can learn to make yarn-robots. 8) I will try to spend more time with real people, and when I do, 9) I will try not let social things bother me.

I have been busy cobbling together the company newsletter and now I'm in the middle of getting all 3,000 of them ready for mailing. These are the contents of my even less interesting life outside of vox. Newsletters. (sigh) At least it's sort of art related.  This scribble is in celebration of all of the trouble I have creating newsletters since I have no "real" graphic design training and just make something that I think looks good. I have no end of trouble with the printers and in getting the thing coverted to spot colors and other such nonsense to print. This is called "CMYK."

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I've shared anything here. I closed out a Moleskine over a month ago and am well into a new one. The drawing has been steady, but my postings obviously have come in fits and starts. I blame my 9 to 5. The only other news I have is that I'm working on a new painting/drawingthing to hang near my desk at work, so I might disappear again until that's finished.

Here's a new-old scribble that I drew at an activist conference a few months back. Hope you enjoy.