DC - What's That?

What's that?

Often asked of myself when painting away...

...and sometimes unanswered for months.

'Ladder to the Full Moon' - acrylic on paper, about 8"x8"

My talented friend Carole is the host of this Drawing Challenge.  Take a look at her interesting place for links to lots more artists grappling with 'what's that'.

(inspired by the full July moon sailing over Seattle this weekend)

 

quiet

moonrise last evening

the eating kind

the pretty kind

pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 sketchbook

pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 sketchbook

Hope your week is going swimmingly.

Maria - DC

The lovely and talented Patrice brought us an interesting drawing challenge this past week: Maria.  Motherhood and moonlight were a natural turn of thought as I have been spending time with both my mother and my daughter under the full moon here in beautiful Denver.

moonset on the morning walk with Daughter

'Maria-in-the-Moon' - pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 4x6 sketchbook

You will be blessed with many more images on this theme if you visit Patrice's delightful place. 

Moon - DC

'The Moon has a face like the clock in the hall

She shines on thieves on the garden wall'.
-Robert Lewis Stevenson

'Ol' Devil Moon' - pigma pen and magazine snippet in 8x6 epsilon

'The Blue Moon Remembering Her Former Phases' - Stabilo pencil in 8x6 gamma

 Our Drawing Challenge took us to the moon and back this week, guided by the talented navigator of all things artistic, Patrice.  Have a swoon at the rest of the moons at her interesting blog.

Last Night, the Moon

From my chair last night, I watched the moon sinking toward the bosom of Kupreanof.  She grew more golden as she  glided down.

''Last Night, the Moon' - watercolor in 8x6 'gamma' sketchbook

These long summer evenings are so lovely.  I stay awake too late, entranced by the light, the wonderful scent of the forest and beach, the birds singing the day goodnight... and drawing.

'Moonish' - pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 'gamma' sktechbook

Scene Recently, #16

Chinese Lanterns #1

Next Thursday I will be teaching a little painting workshop for 8-years-and-up people at our nice library as part of their summer Art Camp program.  We will be decorating Chinese Lanterns, nylon ones from Dharma, with acrylic paints.  I spent part of my day starting mine so I had an example to show the group.  Very FUN!  My theme is the Moon's face in four seasons.

This is summer.

Autumn

 Winter Moon

These are 10" diameter lanterns.  It seems to work best to not draw on the lantern blank with pencil but just plunge in with the paint brush.  I think I will encourage the kids to do some preliminary sketching on paper to develop a design prior to working on their lanterns.

I saved the Spring moon to demonstrate in class.

Look for a post of the workshop end of next week, and enjoy your Saturday!

Albert Pynkham Ryder

In the corpse light of this morning's half-dead moon

further paled

by thin veil

of quick cloud

Albert Pynkham Ryder walked beside me.

On Foot in the Snow

This eagle landed in a nearby tree to watch Flossy run around on the beach, kept clean of snow by the tide.

 The half-moon floating at 3pm.

Seattle Girl is visiting this week - we got locked out of my car and had a great walk while we waited for the Sailor to rescue us.

Alpine-glow mountain peaking above a foot of snow on the muskeg...

as the sun goes down another day closer to Solstice.

Summer Morning, Sunny Days

The moon was setting and reflecting in the high tide in front of my house when I was getting ready to go to the swimming pool at 5:30 this morning; I went out on the deck in my swimming suit and sweater to snag a photo.

On Sunday Devil's Club caught my eye as we hiked around the Three Lakes trail.

Flossy stood guard while I picked berries.