Trying something a little airy this time around.

I actually had a different drawing that was coming along and I deleted it somehow. The dangers of digital. Oh well, it happens.

This was another surprise.

I worked on creating a more complex layered drawing. Now that I see the drawing full size I see it needs more work. Maybe I will revisit it.

Well, that was a surprise.

I wanted to work in black and white to concentrate more on the shapes and brushes I could make. New discoveries about strokes in this one. Getting this energetic thing moving so the quieter drawings will come.

Hope you are enjoying this as much as I am.

In this drawing I really experimented with making custom brushes and changing the hardness of the pencils.

It's really interesting to see these outside of the iPhone. Remember I am drawing on a very small surface and I don't see the drawing full size until I export it to Dropbox and then post it here.

This is the second drawing in the series. Yep number two

I learned how to make some more tools that would make marks that I am interested in making. I'm getting faster at switching from one tool to another; that makes the drawing more spontaneous.

This one is energetic and looks more like the work I make on paper.

I'm pretty excited working on these.

Had a great day in the studio last tuesday. Took a couple pics. Digital photography is great but I really want wireless transfer. I know I can take a shot or two with my iPhone but I like using my camera and that means transferring from my memory card to my laptop and then uploading to my Flickr account. No. I don't upload images to FB because I find their TOS (Terms of Service) offensive. At flickr I control the rights of each and every one of my images individually. (I'm looking forward to seeing what Google + has to offer. I hate Facebook in O so many ways.)

A quick capture of my road kit.

I carry several sketchbooks. Three Molekines, one for ink drawings, a watercolor book, and a journal. Last but not least a Fabriano with multiple color sheets.

I like having the aqueous pencils on the road gives me lots of options. I can use one of my nifty Japanese nylon water color brushes to blend color or I can leave them alone.

This time along I brought a new India Ink brush marker. Love it. It helped me keep my little sketches very loose.

My plants were weeping when I arrived at my studio today. Four 90+ degree days called for more watering. I unloaded some supplies and drawings I had scanned last week. Then I began to get my road kit together.

I have a pretty serious kit for drawing in small sketchbooks along the beach or in the public places. I carry small Moleskines or spiral sketchbooks; they are best for unexpected bouts with nature. I can control them in the wind or cover them up from the rain. I have aqueous colored pencils, a squirt bottle, and  plastic Japanese brushes that have water wells built in.

Got to the studio after running errands early this morning.

Took awhile to get started but by the time I left progress had been made. I finally feel like work is starting is to spill out. These drawings use an under layer of soft pastel and an upper layer of oil pastel. Some metallic. color. Some scraping and scratching. You can't see the metallic in this quick photo.

Looking forward to getting back in and working more.