Songs and chat.

Dragonette

Goldfraff

Finger Eleven Paralyzer

Listening to songs  and scribbling with woodless pencil. I sharpened half of antique Mongol pencil set.

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.

Marika and cake.

Here is Marika, she speaks Hungarian and she is very sweet person. She works in the house where I touched up mural recently. She made me nice coffee and brought this wonderful cake. I mention in the other post that while working downstairs she was singing opera arias, it was pretty amazing.  And about this cake, it may not look  that special, but the taste was mind blowing, some tiny pieces of nuts and thin layer of coffee cream, and topped with coconut. I used ink in Moleskine.

Mural with woven layer last touch.

I made mural in the bathroom even more muted, because designer wanted it very subtle.

Here, near mural,  is window treatment, in silver. I really like it, silver net. It corresponds with other silver accents, like round stool and rug, and hardware. I also got amazing piece of cake from this nice lady, hungarian housekeeper,  drawing of it I will post later.

Parking lot and crooked pencil.

I was waiting for Jeff in Long Island and tried small leftover Conte pencil, sort of charcoal, I think, on this brown paper. Works nice on it, but messy. Good for fast impressions. On the top I drew weird crooked old advertising pencil Koranda Well. On the clip it said Wings. It is bent in pleasant way, sits comfortable in my hand. Takes 1.18 lead, I put in from 1940 stock.

42 street in Manhattan.

One of the busiest streets. Even at night. Ink and added 2 Inktense pencils later. One day I want to make my own sketchbook in a regular book jacket, so drawing in public would be even more discrete, it would look like I am reading a book.

Bryant Park from Ave of America's side.

When my daughter was little we use to go to Manhattan every weekend, I planned our adventure ahead on a computer: place to see, place to eat, walk a lot, little fun to buy something , so she will tolerate exhibitions and serious music. We called it celebration of life. It was exhausting but wonderful. So she got used to museums, opera, concerts. (It was pretty cheap, family and student's special discounts). And we fell in love with Manhattan, where you can always find something new to explore. So here Bryant Park from Ave of America's side and I fit  people in. Ink and couple of Inktense pencils.

Snowing again.

Bryant Park in Manhattan.

My new fingerless gloves didn't help much. Cold. I used 2 inks here.

Manhattan towards Grand Central.

Hard to fit in stretched to the sky Manhattan's buildings even in my furry sketchbook 11 3/4x8. I used mixed ink, it has a feeling of old daguerreotype, which I like. I want to feel connected.

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.

View on Manhattan.

Went to pick up my daughter from Manhattan. What a beautiful city.

Snow sketch.

Playing with flat brush, acrylic ink and a bit of primer and thinking about Bob.

New Year's Eve.

Driving through Manhattan on New Year's Eve, was lucky to escape ticket from NYPD officer. Used interesting Exam pencil from Fiber-Castell with flat lead 2B.