Trip.

This unfinished breakfast with cherries was sitting on my table for a while till it felt right to share thoughts and feelings about my daughter's trip to Israel. Little strips of paper with dates and plans like the ones what people use for prays and wishes, they folding and place between stones of the Western Wall. It is a centuries-old tradition. I sent mine too.
I used ink and Inktense pencils, but finished up with few Kuretake brush pens.

Subway musicians.

Changing trains got wrapped up into music for a moment. Two musicians with violins. For some reason I felt that music painted surroundings in flaming reds. I was hiding with my sketchbook behind some metal boxes, where slightly smelled like urine and music licked my shoes with orange waves like tired sea.
I used ink, Kuretake, salt, Inktense pencils, mixed media on Arches.

Roses and tuna melt on a bagel.

I started this before the hurricane Irene, but dropped everything and evacuated. So it was a little bit hard to get back into it, but I added some color and tried to bring to completion. I used ink and colors from old plastic leads containing Kuretake pens scribbles and Inktense pencils leftovers.   Dry puddles got reactivated on plastic with water brushes, it worked for faded nostalgic sort of colors I wanted. Always think of my beloved writer Marcel Proust, it is mostly image from remembered reality, relived once again.

Glass.

Went to look for a coffeemaker and was stunned by the beauty of  the glass singing its own melody on the dark industrial street under the train in Brooklyn.  Still living with crappy coffeemaker but will remember that day with dust, sunlight, shadows and glass. Ink and touch of Inktense pencils on old, very old watercolor paper.

Cherries.

Cherries on my desk. Sometimes harder your life on you more you appreciate little things happening, which slipped away before. More you think what is really matters. Anyway here is a little mess and a regular day with plans and worries. My pretty Rembrandt watercolors which still waiting to be used and appreciated and couple of new piston water brushes I got on Ebay. I used ink and Inktense pencils for this drawing.

Inna in ink.

Another portrait of Inna. I used ink and couple of  Inktense pencils. I opened new water brush from JetPens, because my old lost the point and not that good anymore.  Size of the paper A4. I used Fluid  watercolor book from Dick Blick, I really like this paper and it was pretty cheap.

Leo's breakfast.

Ink and Inktense pencils for color. I miss drawing food. Used Leo's breakfast photo for reference. My food today was not that pretty, I created weird chinese stir-fried dish with coconut milk, rice wine, soy and bunch of vegetables, and rice pasta. Not drawable, but edible.

1.1.11

I missed drawing with ink on a good paper. So here is our first day of the year, we went to Manhattan to pick up Inna after her New Year's escapade with friends. Seems almost no cars, people walking, enjoying peace after craziness of the night. Afterwords add a bit of color with few Inktense pencils.

Chinese sweets.

Chinese sweets really help with anxiety and cold weather. Side affect - couple of extra pounds, but only if you pay attention. I used ink and couple of Inktense pencils in watercolor Moleskine. We don't have snow yet, but it was pretty cold and windy near the ocean.

Yellow leaves.

This house with bags of leaves is on 18 Street in Brooklyn, not far from where Maytal works. I had so much fun with ink and add 3 Inktense pencils: green, brown and yellow.  Today I lost my mind and got some treasures on Ebay, can't face it yet...

Maytal.

Portrait of Maytal. She is really beautiful girl. I used ink and drop of Inktense pencils leftover,  smudged on plastic lid I use for palette sometimes. On Arches watercolor block, grain torchon, 140 lb. I have only 4 pages left.  Size 9"x12"

I have one bigger from old times, 12"x16", but it won't fit into scanner and it will take me much longer to do because of the size. That would be good to paint on easel somewhere in he fields of France, may be, one day...

Persimmon Margarita.

It was not as delicious as it was really pretty. In this tall flute wine glasses. We listen to our long loved Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Squirrel Nut Zippers.  Never got tired of them. I used ink and Inktense pencils for bits of color in Moleskine.

Tangerines.

Tangerines for my daughter. I want everything to be beautiful around her. And it is. We just have to notice that. I liked it on black plate. I used ink and wanted more color, so used few  Inktense pencils. In Moleskine A4. Could not resist adding few words in Japanese. Sort of  cryptic way of expressing my mood.

Kawasaki.

I used Kuretake 13 brush pen, I thought ink is not gonna be touched by water, but when I used Inktense pencils and water brush ink got washed out a bit.

Here is Photoshoped version, I think really cool. Now I'll drag myself outside to get some food and fresh air.

Ratatat.

Page of my drawing journal. Drove, drew, dealt, listen to music, found few tracks I was looking for. Mashup.

Suckling.

Sometimes thoughts could be surRealistic.  Inktense pencils.

Fellini on my table.

Scribbling on the run.

As usual so many things to do and no time to sketch, so I scribble everywhere I go, dragging my plain Molly with me,  so this one drawn in Brooklyn, JFK, White Planes, medical office and home.

Autumn.

Purple cloud scared me away from the porch in the old house. Rain started.

Breakfast with cat.