Drawing in the Dark at musee du quai branley

Catching up a bit

Ah, I have been not drawing so much.. but here are the few I have done. I hope to get back into a weekly thing again, we shall see!

'toy' - who loves bingo prizes? ME!

'plant' - the m.j. diagram

D.C.I. Branch Meeting

Alex and I had a mini drawing club tonight in an effort to get the drawing ball rolling (and maybe, for 5 minutes, I would stop reading political blogs). Alex, who had stayed on top of our last handful of topics, drew on a new topic: WILD KINGDOM (which Colin's excellent previous post most conveniently fits into too!). I on the other hand had some catching up to do.

alex's wild kingdom:


nor's "plant":

nor's toy:

nor's wild kingdom:

a man with a porpoise

monster

Toy Monster, Monster Toy

series of ....

Series of little toys that could possibly be monsters simultaneously? Maybe I should work on monsters for my next theme....

Plants!

Plants from Golden Gate Park, Point Reyes, and RLS State Park near Calistoga. Some are sideways or upside down.

goat style

I was going to suggest Monsters. so i drew one. boo!

topic

I took a long break and I feel as if I owe at least a topic to this club. What about TOY? I would also like to suggest a rule for this week. We must draw TOY in 10 minutes maximum. Quick drawing that shows the essence of the subject!

fever!

hello
i meant to draw + post a plant tonight AND post a new topic, but i'm heading to bed on account of a fever, so if anyone wants to throw a new topic in the mix, i'd be most extremely appreciative.
keep up the good drawing fight,
nor

Plants of Cape Cod

Sequoia

Ah, I took a long break.
Here is a drawing from our campground in Sequoia Nat'l Park a month or so ago.

Flight to Syracuse, NY

tj rice crackers

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plant matter

hello team!

long time no see. good to be back.

i'm in the middle of designing a logo for someone, involving a 'sprout', so i've got plants on the brain + so this week's topic: PLANTS.

here's an old post i would have made if kanji hadnt taken over my blogspot: i was going for an overall pattern of logos i'd photo'd in one day's walk in kyoto (a camo pattern maybe?) but it never quite got as dense as i'd hoped.

ps i think the every-other-week topic is a good idea, considering the posting pattern we've fallen into. which isn't to say that that everyone isn't welcome to post anytime they want on any topic they want, because they are.

Topo Chico

how shall I refresh thee, on a summer's day...

Noranges

This is from Nor.

Hakuto

Breakfast

I ate my lunch before i could draw it! but it was pizza!

The trouble with Kanji

Hi everyone.  I'm Heidi, and I'll be filling in for Nor this week since she is having trouble reading the Japanese text that shows up when she tries to log on to this blog. For this week's topic, how about food.  We all have to eat it, so why not take a few seconds before you do and sketch it?

scrub jays

specimens at the California Academy of Sciences

point reyes trip

Tule elk and Tomales point done on a six mile hike at Point Reyes. Up close the crazy eyes of the elk make them look freaked out all the time.

narwhal

greetings from japan

hello from kobe!

i'm too jet lagged to think up a topic or scrounge through old emails for suggestions, so i think it will be another topic-less week, PLUS i think camo deserves more time on the radar.

above my first two japan drawings.

Birdwatcher's Camouflage

I was watching 'Attenborough in Paradise' last night, and that guy is irrepressible and fascinating to watch. In the scene above, he threw big leaves into a bird's 'arena' and waited behind palm leaves to see what would happen.

evidence

I nearly killed my fiance and since it was so dramatic, I wanted to post this drawing..... We were at the resort (in the middle of nowhere) with bunch of friends in Oregon enjoying the long weekend. Knowing that he is allergic to nuts, we were all cautious with what we cooked. But, no one knew that he would develop allergy reaction to SOBA (buckwheat) noodle on that weekend!!!! I cooked his favorite soba noodle for lunch, and 2 hours later..... benadryl... inserting Epi........ 911....... ambulance...... 6hours at ER..... Oh, man. What a weekend..... This is the drawing from the ER room..... The only evidence that I nearly killed him by feeding him his favorite noodle, soba......

Sorry that it has nothing to do with the weekly theme..... I will work on the Camo-theme.

camo

as inspired by the sumi ink club workshop (which i did not attend, but i sure did like that drawing on the machine projects site), this weeks theme: camouflage.

i'm leaving for a couple weeks+ in japan on saturday and have a question for the drawing team: what art tools should i pack? has anyone perfected the art of the travelling drawing kit? i think i've made my sketchbook decisions, and am trying to give myself daily assignments, to spur me on (i tried an assignment-driven sketchbook thing a couple years ago in nova scotia and it was a semi failure, but i think my expectations were excessive: 10 assigments a day! too much! this time i'm only giving myself three, on a sketchbook half the size).

thanks again team for your awesome awesomeness

elinor

people, skinny, streetscape

From top to bottom:  People on the 22 Fillmore, skinny tree fern in Golden Gate Park, and the corner of Duboce and Church.

White Sea Gulag: Building, Apparatus

details in modern architecture

there is a fruit bat under your composite slab!

skinny guy

I second Jeremy's call to come join us at the Y. The atmosphere is friendly and informal, plus they have cookies! I rediscovered conte crayons last night.

Figure Drawing Night

Didn't make it to Sumi Club, but on Tuesdays there is also a figure drawing night at the Santa Monica YWCA. Josh and I attended, as we tend to do every fortnight. If anyone wants to go next time, drop us a line for more info. It makes a great Tuesday night drawing outing. Here are some of my drawings, I am slow so I didn't really finish any.





I did some other random drawings over the week. One is the other view of the Orchids Michele drew, one is a skinny beer my boss drank, and one is a bar, but I stopped drawing that one to play chess and drink wine.

sumi club

If anyone of the angelenos happen to check the blog before 8 pm tonight, there's a free drawing event at Machine Projects tonight, hosted by the Sumi Ink Club (our rivals?):

http://machineproject.com/2008/06/17/disruptivepatterning/

skinny geometry

Amsterdam streetscape