Blind Contour Friday

Fox News Alert: SouthWest Airlines plane skids off runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. wellll...YOU try and do a blind contour drawing from a TV program!

Droplet

Found this pastel sketch in a tracing pad under the bed.

There’s no fun like snow fun

sketchy guy

This guy just popped into my head...so I drew him. Kind of different for me. I think maybe I'll create a family for him.

Blind Contour Fridee

The coat tree...full of wonderful memories of winters past.

Blue

Not.

Newport Livingroom

This is a bad (blurry) scan of a pastel painting I did of the living room in our Newport, KY house...while sitting on the couch. The nice thing about doing a painting of your livingroom is you can leave out all the clutter; shoes, papers, clothes, empty glasses, books and magazines, laundry, dustballs, things the cat dragged in, etc. I mean, if that's what YOUR livingroom looks like. The end.

“Horse of Corpse”

My section is the last. Have you tried it yet? http://www.anexquisitecorpse.net

Illustration Friday "Small"

Li'l Bubby. Big chair.

Corpse #2

I started this one off. The woman in my section faces backward and looks over her shoulder. The second section continues her body facing front. Wierd, huh? Especially all the added appendages. Check out anexquisitecorpse.net for more.

FREE

a quick illustrator sketch. As you can see, I've had very little FREE time lately.

Chloe

I've been rewriting & refining a poem I wrote about Chloe to go with this picture...but it just makes me too sad...so here is the picture. I lost Chloe a little over a month ago (chronic renal failure). I have posted couple of earlier pictures of her. It happened kind of suddenly...and I had no idea it would hit me so hard and stay with me so long. What a sweet soul.

My First Corpse

Sounds like a new toy for this holiday season, but it's not. This is my first anexquisitecorpse.com corpse. My "section" is the second from the top, of four (divided horizontally). I am currently working on the final section of my third corpse. I highly recommend participation in this fine-art-by-unpredictable-collaboration "game", if for no other reason than to enjoy the "critique" of completed corpses.

BCF

For the first attempt, I thought I would try to capture this thing I do with my mouth called "railroad mouth"...where I skew my lips on a diagonal one way...and then the other way...making a sort of flashing X like a railroad sign (learned from my ballet teacher when I was in the first grade). The second attempt was actually my 4th attempt.At this point, I was getting a little frustrated with just getting something that looked like a face!...Then I said to myself, Lynne, stop trying to compete with Wally.. you KNOW he cheats. And then I said...LYNNE! you can't put that in your blog, what's wrong with you...slap slap slap slapp...ok OK I'm sorry,... geeze

EDM Challenge "something with folds"

...sitting there...contemplating
what to draw that has folds...

Pastel Sketch

Just felt like doing something “pastelly” again since it's been a while.

Illustration Friday "Night"

Quack Photographer

Well, ducks like corn even if you don't. These were taken on the same walk described in the previous entry.

Phall Photo Ops

I took my new digital camera for a walk around the neighborhood yesterday. These are my first attempts with photography...so go easy.

EDM Challenge "Toothbrush"

time to get a new toothbrush.

Distraction

It's always dangerous for me to start picking up painted fall leaves when I'm on a morning walk. At some point, I have to force my eyes forward and resist the urge to scan for more fallen treasures, turning my walk into a day-long obsession and missing crucial phone calls from potential employers. These are some of the leaves I found today. If anyone called...please call back on Monday.

BCF

I really have to get out more.

Illustration Friday "Broken"

20 THINGS...(click on image to read)

BCF iBook and tPot

...and the keys ran away with the flowers.

Trick or Treats

For Mom.

Blind Contour Friday

Bad Hairdryer Day

EDM Challenges 21, 22 & 31

These are all separate drawings of items in a collection of family memorabilia combined into one image created in photoshop. The dress is a christening gown originally worn by my sister...and then me. The clip in the lower left is really pretty, but I haven't identified whose it was...or the story behind it yet. The postcard collection, bound by wooden panels & metal screws, was my mother's. The little snapshot mini album has a leather cover with grommets and a very fragile string holding it all together. The photos inside are from my maternal grandmother's family, as is the small, framed portrait in the upper left corner. I have boxes of postcards, photos and letters, many of which were sent by friends and relatives while they served during WWII. I submit this entry to satisfy the "clothing", "antique or vintage items" and "collection" challenges.

Handy li'l drawing

Illustration Friday "COLD"

Little boy out on doorstep in the snowy cold, waiting for the bus to pick him up for his Political Science class at the local University.

who's in control here?

Blind Contour Friday

Kitchen series. The fridge has so much stuff on it....and then the earthquake hit

EDM Challenge #36

Well....this was a challenge all right. Though I've been doing this more lately, I still haven't reached a good comfort level yet, and it shows. Great assignment!

NY Winter

Another from the photobox. (pastel pencil)

Two More Bubbies

She's so sketchable!

Back in Time

I did this sketch from an old family photo, from an old family album. Probably early to mid-'40s and probably in New York.

Illustration Friday "Lost" (tooth)

I just could not come up with anything to submit for this week's topic, "Lost", until it literally popped out of my head...and fell into my lap (crown & post) . Of course, I took advantage and did a quick sketch before jamming it back in from whence it came. Timing is everything.

Illustration Friday

"Float"...photoshop manipulated photo of my daughter, Andrea.

Blind Contour Friday

My husband gave this to me last Easter, so I dedicate this BCF drawing to him.

EDM Challenge #35

Bicycle by a fence. A "sketchy" scan of a pastel on plain ol' drawing paper.

Insomnia

sketchy day

I got into a sketch rut today. Pencil & charcoal pencil and a big box of family photographs.

quick seaside sketch

Sanibel seagull. I especially like the paper edge down the right side.

EDM Challenge #8

These 3 pieces were made by a friend. The left ring is my wedding band, and the right is my "engagement" ring. My husband has the same wedding band (of course), and a similar "engagement" ring. The middle piece is a silver pin with ivory inlay. The right ring is silver with a bloodstone. The wedding ring design represents a catfish, which is a symbol of good luck.