What I Observe by Joan Tavolott

So sorry for being absent for so long. Life got very busy. I'll try to do better in the future. I love the sketches posted for this theme. Happy New Year everyone!!! Wishing all of you a healthy, happy, inspired 2016.

I have so many sketches that could be posted here, but I'll just do a few. I have gotten into doing digital sketches on my iPad with a program called Artrage. The first and last sketches were done on my iPad, one at a cafe and the last one on the railroad going into the city. The group of Steelers fans were in a bar where my urban sketching group went to share our sketches for the day. Of course Lynn will recognize the third one done at Starbucks.

What I Observe, Ellen Payne

Drawn for Everyday in December.

Observations at Panera Bread Company.

What I Observe(d yesterday) , Lynn Cohen

What I observe, Jean Bernick

Jean Bernick, what I observed. I did another sketch today looking out my back window. We must have 75or 100 sparrows at our bird feeder. It is cold and they are hungry.

What I observe, Jean Bernick

Every year in December, my Great Blue Heron metal sculpture dons his Santa hat. Happy Holidays to everyone!

What I observe, Ann Hyde

Blustery Day for a lurcher

Drawing What I Observe "Coffee House and Restuarant Drawings", Lynn Cohen

 

I go to local coffee houses (Starbucks, Barnes & Noble Café, Pure Grain Bakery) and observe the people sitting or standing around, and I draw them. I love giving them conversations or talking about their behaviors that I observe and then make up stories about.

This is something I have been doing  since 2012, and started out doing once a week; now I am more apt to draw in one of these places 4-5 days a week. As a result I have filled many, many

art journals with these people scenes and watched my drawing continue to improve over time.

 

This is an example of a drawing done in 2012. Maybe you can see my progress.

(and maybe not! LOL)

Draw what you see, Donna Bickley

Draw something I see - by Donna Bickley

From my studio window I see a small crabapple tree with reddish brown, fermented apples leftover over from the season - the tree  up against a simple wooden fence.
There has been a freeze and now a warmish time which brought a thaw thus aiding in the fermentation and softening of the apples' interior.
\. I drew the tree from my window view and the robins and other critters were added from my memory and imagination.
I made the tree smaller than reality and the robins bigger to convey the vision in my head of the weight of flocks of a dozen or more robins who came to visit this tree in a 3 day event in which they gobbled fermented apples, were intoxicated and staggered about hilariously. The melting snow , one of my cat characters and a coupla local mouse voyeurs complete the picture you are seeing.
Mixed media on an aceo card, pen, acrylics, and watercolor pencil.