Thing a day 20
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Yup, day late, and definitely a dollar short 
I’m trying out some quick
sketching. I was watching the Beatles’ first trip to the US and did four pages of sketches… this is just one.
Thing a day 19
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Day 18 was another wash. But I was forced to paint wet on wet today. I
know what I see. But what do you see?
Thing a day 17 - aluminum
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Sanded aircraft aluminum a friend cut and drilled for me. Edges & corners were too sharp. To be used as book covers.
Thing a day 16
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Today I helped others create. I taught a group of 35 teenagers how to
express themselves through writing and visual journaling. I used the
“morning pages” technique and then set ‘em loose with art supplies.
Thing a day 15
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Painted a few sample colors on my studio wall - and I finished up a custom order for 2 journals and sent ‘em off today. I always forget to take pictures of custom orders before I send them out… oh well.
Thing a Day 13
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“Edge”
Inktense Colored Pencils on Moleskine.
Day 14 was a wash. (although there’s one hour left). Vday, Arts League meeting (I’m on the board), catching up on articles leaves little time for the fun stuff..
Thing a day 12 - a cup
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Back to drawing. My art teacher says I need to work more on shading &
value. So here’s another attempt. My perspective’s a bit off.
Thing a day 11 - war paint
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Photocopied a picture of my face to use in my art journal & used ‘em here. Acrylic paints, gesso & pen on this one. I’m theme-less these past few days, but I suppose I can cheat and use the TAD theme “paper” 
No pictures since I was just testing out a new squirrel mop brush I bought (splurged) on - I painted lines of various thicknesses to test out the versatility of the brush (got some nice fine lines with it), did a couple wet on wet splotches, nothing I’d really want to show.
Thing A Day 9 - "edges" - collage
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Sat down & tore up some paper. Used “Edge” & “Paper” from the Thing A Day Themes.
It’s not quite finished… something’s missing but I need time to think about it.
Thing A Day 8 - inktense
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Again, something a little different. drawing, but not so realistic. Played with Derwent Inktense pencils & Sharpie Poster Paint pens.
Drawn while basking in the lovely music from Bill Mallonee live at Rhythm & Hues in Marietta, GA.
Thing a day 7 - finished mushroom book
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Figured I would finish the book I started yesterday.
Painted the cover, added color accents to the mushrooms, bound it with a harlequin stitch & filled it with ledger paper cut to size.
Thing a Day 5 - something different
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Took a break from drawing to work on journal covers. Here’s one I’m
really excited about. It got a coat of metal primer and now it needs
some paint to bring out the mushrooms.
Thing a day 5
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I’m not too happy with this one. Drew it in my drawing class today. Getting the hang of the graphite, but I’m still not drawing what I’m seeing…
Thing a day 4
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Fish eye - since the eyes kept giving me problems I decided to focus
on one of them. I still struggled, and may have over-worked it.
Thing a day 3
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Another detail of the fish. I set aside yesterday’s drawing since the
eyes were giving me a hard time.
I’m getting the hang of shading & drawing without hard lines… still don’t like graphite much.
Thing a day 2 fish
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This one’s still in progress. Made a viewfinder out of cardboard (no that’s not cheating) to help with the composition. I felt like focusing in on a detail today.
I’ll definitely need more time on this one.
My drawing teacher wants me to bring in this & yesterday’s work (and my college drawings) to her kid’s class for a “Dog & Pony” show as she called it. Guess she thinks I’m doing well, eh?
So I’m drawing this fish for a few days - maybe 5 or so… gotta work on my drawing skills or my drawing teacher will draw all 5 feet of her up and stare me down ’till I faint.
Thinking of working on my drawing, using the same subject for a whole week… just need some ideas for subjects…
