Khajuraho in pictures.

Khajuraho - unique architecture in India. It was a post in SkineArt with the drawing by Rene Fijten of this  interesting architecture from 1000 years ago, It is a huge complex of 25 temples, built around the year 1000 and hidden in the jungle for centuries. In this rainy evening I am drinking tea with honey and lemon and can't stop admiring human genius, building such a jewel.

Liza.

Liza - the beauty of the family.

Went to fight a ticket.

Won, parking ticket was dismissed. Hooray! Scribbled on the train in  this hairy sketchbook.

Green house.

Ink bleed interesting way on this hairy paper, giving it a little vintage look. Past this cute house yesterday on the way from Garfield place in Brooklyn.

Chuckie my cat.

Chuckie was named by my daughter when she was 7 after the Chuckie from "Rugrats", red haired  funny character from cartoon.  He was my first cat, before I thought that I am a dog person. He used to ride in my daughter's doll baby carriage, sometimes wearing   white hat with the frills, sometimes deliberately jump into the stroller and roll till it stops, hitting the wall. Now he is a patriarch of the family and often get tossed around by Fellini, younger generation.  :-) Ink in watercolor Moleskine A4.

September 27.

Sketching a little bit with pencil Shorty. I sharpened it straight across in an angle, I feel lead is too dry, too hard. Where to get softer? May be Ebay, Koh-I-Noor? I drew on Moleskine plain paper. People mostly so sad.

Inna in ink.

This is the last page of my Moleskine large.  Very sad.  Really liked it Watercolor paper. My A4 is too big, seems require more work and responsibility. It started with "Chinese bakery" on October 30, 09. Anyway I used ink (mixed myself) and played a little with Axe-cut strokes in the hair, holding brush angular, Pentel water brush is the best.

Plumage + Tango Limited Edition Giclee

Plumage + Tango Limited Edition Giclee

by super talented James Jean, I love his work.

Small sketches through the day.

Couple of minutes per sketch with ink and pencil, tried this Axe-cut strokes with outline brushpen on the guy in sunglasses.

Today on Brighton 14 after haircut. 2 inks on the top of my Window mural plan.

Axe-cut brushstrokes in Chinese painting.

Tutorial on Axe-cut brushstrokes
Very interesting. Now I want to get same water brush, it seems to work differently.
Here is a Link to it.

Amazing Lynne Chapman.

Lynne Chapman.
Interview on illustration by Lynne Chapman, how the process of creating a book for children going, advice and sharing her thoughts. Just wonderful to see how Master thinks.

Red house on Kingshighway, Brooklyn.

Another corner of Kingshighway. I used ink, couple of colors, this time took Pentel pen brush with brown ink, I got in Zelda's art store. For green used my daughter's old  almost dried highlighter.

Scribbler. Just found this program online.

and drew. Would be interesting to do real pen drawing in this style, feels so therapeutic.

One day mural.

I painted this window mural in one day. Size 7.25 feet by 5 feet. Hardest part was to figure out proportions of the window sections, so it would relate to real window on the other wall. Also wall was not prepared, so I had to sand and put 2 coats of primer (second with poly). I was offered to do it the night before. I don't like to say No to challenge. I did it alone.

I didn't think it was possible. Now I have a headache and can't sleep. But for supper we bought nice chicken Kotletki in "Taste of Russia" store on Brighton. :-)

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

Sometimes I go here for food shopping, coffee and nuts in Turkish store, meat in meat market, Japanese food in Uni, fruits in Korean fruit stores. I don't like shopping, only for art materials. I used 2 inks in Moleskine sketch, paper doesn't take it easy, it looks a little fuzzy, but still fun.