Few sketches in April in deteriorating sketchbook with brown paper.

I can't wait to get rid of this sketchbook, even I really like the paper. Hard to look back at filled pages, everything seems irritating and no good. This people I met here and there, touched me and gone. Again pencil and white gel pen.

This woman I met by the dentist, first I was hungry for drawing, than we start talking and she was pretty cool telling me stories from the life of Manhattaner. She knew my dentist for 40 years. Interesting that my dentist has such wrong opinion about me, I am not correcting.

Yellow sunrise and pencil sketch.

Getting inspired by completely different palette of the sky every morning (I don't know how it is possible, such an amazing variety). In my mind I am painting it with the big flat brush. In reality...

Sketch at the doctor's office. Drawing with "perfect pencil" Faber-Castell, I like it dry lines, reserved touch, matching with my own today's feelings, to close tighter endings of my shell.

Sunrise and sketch with "perfect" pencil.

Beautiful morning.

This freezing weather keeps me mostly indoors, but sometimes I can't keep my pencil still. On one occasion I spoiled myself with sushi, my favorites, with eel, and drew a guy, while waiting for the order, and at home. Would be so nice to go to eat with someone, very patient friend, and sketch there, for longer...

Subway sketches on the way to Manhattan.

Sleeping man, he was so broken to pieces, but still presentable. I was glad he didn't look at me once.

It was a rainy day and boring things I had to do in the City, but sketching made my day happier, especially when I switch pencils. I used a little bit of oil based Faber-Castell.

Amazing to look at people, trying to feel their mood, hiding mine, switching stare, when they look at me. What is uniting them is silence, but everyone's silence is so different.

Here is another glass and I finished Chanukah, will take picture later.

I love America!

I love America! Rushing to do errands, I forgot my sketchbook at home, taking with me only one pencil, mechanical Faber-Castell.
In a process,  facing half an hour or more of the waiting time in the Nail Salon, I realized, I need piece of paper, or sketchbook, Asap.
And I got one in the store, I was in, it was the only one and very interesting sketchbook among bunch of ruled notebooks.

After that I went to a concert in the City and drew on the Subway and afterwards sketched musicians. Really charming sketchbook with toned paper.

Only in America you can get what you want the second you need it and the quality which could exceed your expectations. :)

Salz pencil.

On the top of the sketches from the doc's office, done with watercolor Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencil, I drew my antique "Salz" pencil, dated April 14 1925. Thin paper struggles to accept ink from Kuretake brush pens I used. I heard Fabriano sketchbooks with tinted paper is thicker. Watercolor pencil is very weak on brown paper, may be I should try it on white?

Pencil sketches.

I was really happy to draw on the train, to try out pencil and just relax. At one point one pretty women stared at me very intensely, folding hands with apple phone in front of her. She, probably thought I drew her, but I was drawing  that person with checkerboard hat near her. I was trying to find opportunity to smile, but I couldn't, so kept sketching with emotionless expression.

Here on the way back. We didn't win parking ticket. Sketched and chew hot sugary cashew nuts I got on the street near court.

Perfect pencil by Faber-Castell.

Could not resist a good deal on Ebay, got "perfect" pencil. Read interesting reviews on it, how comfortable it is on the go with sharpener and lead protector in the cap. It will fit Palomino and Blackwing pencils. Awesome. With metal cap it cost enormous money $250-495, I am good with plastic one. Drew it with ink and few colored  Faber-Castell pencils in Moleskine on the top of scribbling in the doc office.

Street.

Nothing special about this street in Brooklyn, but it caught my eye. When you start wondering, you won't notice how you start speaking in familiar language all the time, how everything translated into visual images. I used ink in Moleskine, red and yellow Pitt brushes for touch of color.

Lost in time.

Sketch called "Lost", October challenge on Skineart. Idea is a little nostalgic memories of childhood, even time passed but it is still with you, part of you. I used pen, Faber-Castell colored pencils, white acrylic for milk puddle and couple of scratches of oil pastel.

Excavator.

I tried to simplify structure of this heavy yellow machine, first did it in pencil, then add Faber-Castell artist pens.

Music on my plate.

I drew it with my new old school pencil, I  got (a little forcefully) yesterday as a present. I checked,  it could be 1950 year or 1970 stock. It is thinner than  regular Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencil, so it sits better in my hand. I am pencil crazy. I wish I will draw more, like 10-12 hours a day. And be free from worries. Here explore some music and emptied plate before drawing.

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.

Tribute to Inna's cooking.

In the process of cooking Vegetable Parmesan. I used  ink  only here, I just love the process, used couple of  Faber-Castell artists pens, with brush nibs, to add a bit of color. In WC Moleskine Folio, I believe,  it calls. One day I will buy bunch of different color inks and experiment wilder and bigger.