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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Filet Mignon.

Visiting my friends. I used Winsor and Newton small watercolor only. Was a little too weird not to have regular red, here is Alizarin crimson, but I mixed it a little with yellow and it gave me red. Before I  was thinking to get separately red, white, payne gray, ochre, umber and siena, to complete my earthy favorites, but I did this in what was included in this set, and even used little attached palette instead of separate one. I think it is enough. At first I put in the tin red from russian "White Nights", but compare to Winsor and Newton paints it felt like painting with shoe cream, so I took it out. Meat was delicious, so I wanted to pay tribute to this spontaneous party and our drawing session afterwards.

Flowers for Inna.

Watercolor in Moleskine WC with Lukas paint and few touches of black ink. Missing painting. Add last touches before breakfast and now off for coffee and russian news.

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