Breakfast and appreciation.

After today's conversation I felt again how precious our everyday life is. How thankful I am for love given to me and how much I want to give. Here is simple breakfast and my thoughts in the morning. I used ink, I mixed and few Kuretake pens for color touches. I cut another old piece of watercolor paper with my mother's ivory knife.

Brooklyn.

Brooklyn, view from the car. I used 2 inks and little help from Kuretake pens for bits of color. Ink spreads on old paper a bit uncontrollable. Interesting that every piece of paper like wall behaves differently, even it seems the same.

Holding hands.

He likes to hold my hand while sleeping. How sweet. I try not to move for a while, if I slowly try to free my hand he grabs me stronger. So demanding he is, gotta obey.

Card for my aunt.

I made this card for my aunt, wrote nice words inside and don't have time to draw roses, will buy real roses,  gotta run to her.  

Pizza and menagerie.

I drew pizza, (pretty good one, I read about it first on Sheepshead Bites and then decided to try it) and put in a shadow under the table my little menagerie. They didn't really sit there together all the time, but they were lurking here there, hoping we may drop something really delicious, which smelled so good. :-) I used 2 inks and few Kuretake pens.

Uranius 2018 pen.

Got new pen in the mail today. Fellini and I opened parcel with ivory knife and found beautiful  red box with golden seal.

What a pen! Rollerball on one side and brush on the other. Comes with bottle of ink. Sketches yet to come. Thinking what paper would be good with it.

I think brown, and thick white pencil on the top here, there. Stabilo pencil, which I got in NY Central. Super exited.

Pina Bausch.

Pina Bausch.

Spring break.

I mixed new ink, thinking now it should have more of yellow-honey in it. My fingers tinted different colors now, so hard I tried to mix inks.  Next time I will try to use syringe or pipette, btw, where people getting this pipettes?  I used one ink and Kuretake H20 in watercolor Moleskine A4.

Interesting to read.

5 sketching secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci

Avenue of Americas.

Avenue of Americas in Manhattan. Looking through the park on 34 street, where big Toys R Us, magic place, where we bought so many toys for my daughter when she was little, so many stories to remember. Anyway here I used up my Sepia ink, have to mix new one. Love Kuretake H20 brush. Faded red from Twin Kuretake pen. I ordered Uranius  pen , brush on one side, rollerball on the other.  Should be amazing for quick sketches. Waiting.

Bread Pudding.

Bread pudding in Spice in Manhattan. I used 2 inks and few Kuretake brush pens. Really fun day.

My leftover Faber-Castell pencil from old times.

I saw mentioning about this pencil in other blog lexikaliker, in German, (couldn't read), and remembered about mine, given to me more than 25 years ago by dear friend.

I use it with protector/extender which is really part of antique mechanical pencil, someone smart sold me on Ebay. But you know what? I am happy to use it, because it works for this particular pencil and makes it very unique. Next I should do  a drawing with it.

Interior with metallic glaze in strie.

Here would be chandelier hanging above the table. This design was made up and stenciled and hand finished.

Strie and panels on the bottom, this panels was the easiest thing to do but looked so nice. All woodwork was antiqued.

Another side of the room, staircase took greenish metallic glaze with antiquing, brownish antiquing connected to oak banister.

This was interesting finish, metallic tinted plaster from MM, I love working with knives, playing with texture. Top layer I did with opal glaze. This is guest bathroom. The sink will be metallic glass with tight texture, together it will be awesome.

Entrance room, depicting sort of abstract landscape with blue sky-like panels on the ceiling, with light wrinkles in it. Trim would be antiqued.

Now longing for new project.

Diner.

Another  inking about Selena's Diner near Hunter, NY. I used Sepia ink and Kuretake H20 on aged WC paper and a little bit of my old Shin-Gansai watercolor from Holbein for the window scene. How lonely we are, but still so happy.

Song.

Can opener. Mamonov.


Saw him on Facebook. Pretty strong, weird sometimes, but I like him, gonna throw couple of songs on my Ipod. He says what I think.
Kanava