Active lines and a MOO

I like to sketch every day.  Sometimes these sketches are quick line drawings straight from my head.  My favorite subject is the dog :-)

I drew a series of three:

Maybe a little sad?

Wow, wired :-)

Ready to play!

And I drew a cat:

Alarmed??

MOO:

 I had no idea that there is such a thing as a witches' door, but in any case, my word art isn't one of them.  It's just word play :-)

Wild cats and a penguin

A few sketches where my goal is to capture expressions:

Ink, charcoal, chalk

Ink

Ink and Copic markers

I like penguins.  To me, they look like they are ready for an adventure :-)

Goldens

Remy keeps me company for much of the time I work in my studio.  He's a restless snoozer.  I looked down and managed to just capture him in a pencil sketch before he decided it was time to move:

Quickly, now :-)

I've been watching animals and people from the back and observing how expressive body postures are.  This is another Golden (done in ball point pen):

"Come home soon."

Mixed Media Horses

In  Carla's  2014: Year of the Fairy Tale class, we are on our seventh fairy tale - and our prep work involves horses literally drawn from one's own imagination  :-)

After finishing the suggested 60 line drawings of horses, I was looking for another way to create twenty more.  I used a simple technique from another of Carla's online classes, Blobimal Artists Books, random collage pieces adhered to the paper and from there "finding" and defining the horse with line work.

These are some of my favorite horses created this way:

 

The random collage elements get my creative juices flowing :-)

Addictive

Not to be dramatic, but 'tangling' is addictive, especially because I have always loved patterns and line work.

Here's my third tile:

Why am I making my tangles so small???

For me, one appealing aspect of tangles is that they are the starting point of patterns that can evolve in any direction I choose; and this 'personalization' is absolutely encouraged in a Zentangle®

When you draw one

it just leads to another one :-)

My second Zentangle® tile:

So much fun to learn something new.

 The weather here is snowy with really, really frigid temps. So, I plan to stay inside where it's nice and warm and work in my studio; I will probably draw more of these tiles :-)

Um-m-m, not sure

Still on the Picasso Dog thing; I had a "traditional" dinosaur elements in mind, however this is what happened:

Something a bit different.

I think it's a Dino-Bird. The tail became a wing and then a beaky thing happened. A bit different, but I think the little critter has an endearing quality to the face. I just kind of have to follow my pencil :-)

Scribble blob...

from the last day of Blobimals class:

A Bunny-roo :-)

15 Second Stealth Sketch

Waiting for our table at a local restaurant, I sketched this fellow - the challenge? in less than 15 seconds and stealthily ;-)

Really fas-s-s-t gesture drawing!

When one draws really quickly, the "target" person or animal isn't even aware of being "captured" (heh-heh)

Fitting pose

I was sitting in my study checking out the little sketchbook I carry with me; this is apart from the larger sketchbook I have in the art tote that I keep in my car. This little guy is convenient, but I have to work smaller than I prefer.

• Should I opt for a larger, albeit more bulky sketchbook? 
• Is it a good thing to work uncomfortably? 
• Ought I to adapt..or not? 
• Etcetera...

Then Remy came over and did his normal "sprawl". From where I was sitting he fit perfectly:

Remy helping me reign in "over-thinking"...

Don't know what this means regarding sketchbook sizes, but synergy is at work here :-)

Monday Bunny

It has been a bunny morning chez Cranna. Remy found a baby bunny in the back yard.

Remy was very, very excited. He was sort of nosing and pushing at something and when I saw clearly what it was I told him to "leave it"; he stopped. He was hovering over it and I said, "leave it" again and he moved away. I called Remy to me and he came (Good dog!!!) and he was rewarded with a high value treat and then another one!

Have you ever seen a baby bunny? This grey furball was maybe five inches long with a sweet face topped off with perfect little ears. He was so scared he was hunkered down and wasn't going anywhere. After Remy was back in the house, I went out to scoot the little baby away. He really didn't want to move to I sort of lightly touched his head and back with a dish towel until he turned and did a sort of slow motion hop away.

So here's a mixed media piece to celebrate Mondays (sometimes characterized as blue Mondays) and baby bunnies. A blue bunny...why not?

Happy!

Young Golden.

I was thinking about Remy when he was a young pup - not a baby, but that fleeting period where I could see the promise of what he would look like as an adult. However, he still had those big paws that he had yet to grow into and the occasional wayward movements of the young who are trying to get used to their ever changing, growing limbs! Adorable.
This is a sketch of another young Golden at that age:

Does he know he is adorable?

Snooze...

It's Sunday. Morning fun stuff done. Time for a snooze.

Sweet dreams.