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October 30, 2005

Illustration Friday--Broken

It is such a bummer to have a broken arm on Halloween.

Acrylic on paper.

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October 27, 2005

Blind Contour Friday 13

I did this while waiting for a kid at the movie theater. It's some sort of new fangled movie ticket machine.

And as a bonus: more ghosts!

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October 26, 2005

Ghosts

I'm having one of those got to draw some floaty ghosts days. Unfortunately, my scanner isn't very good at picking up subtle washes so this looks pretty different in my sketchbook. Stupid scanner.

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A Month of Softies--Halloween

Pumkin head couple for A Month of Softies Halloween challenge.

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October 20, 2005

Blind Contour Friday 12

This time I drew the beautiful Japanese doll that lives on top of the cookbook bookcase/dvd storge unit thingy in my kitchen. How was that for a clunky way to describe it? It's not a cabinet, it's a freestanding media storage unit that happens to be in the kitchen and hold cookbooks and dvds. Wouldn't it be great if there were a word for it, like "holdenstuffen" or "flarg?" So I could say "that lives on the flarg." Isn't that better? Smoother I think. Anyway, here she is.

Posts here will be a little sparce until the end of November. Right now I'm getting ready for Nanowrimo by writing a warm up story and trying to ramp up the word count as I got closer to the 31st. So I will be doing pretty much nothing but writing all month. I might do one or two pictures and I'll still do Blind Contour Friday because those are too fun to give up for anything.

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October 13, 2005

Blind Contour Friday 11

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Maybe I need to work on a larger piece of paper or something, but I seem to have a thing with trying to draw everything in the same place. This was fun to draw anyway. It's my tiny amaretto cookie tin that I had to have because when I was a kid my best friend's mom had one in her kitchen.

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October 09, 2005

Illustration Friday--Lost

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Acrylic on paper.

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October 06, 2005

Blind Contour Friday 10

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You might think this is some kind of distortion, but no. This is exactly how I've looked since the accident. It's tragic, really.

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October 01, 2005

Illustration Friday--Float

One day the seals decided to have a party on the local float. That is Shore Patrol on lifeguard duty and a relative of Monseiur Snuffy snuggling up to the anchor.

This was my first time using gouache for a whole painting and I gotta say, I'm hooked. It's much more fun to work with than watercolor or acrylics.

Goache on paper.

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