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My *last interior

This one has not quite the deep space I wanted, but both the church and the auditorium I'd hoped to draw were locked up tight. So here is the lobby of a local posh hotel.

Click and scroll down for full image. Drawn with Cretacolor Aqua Monoliths and 8b pencil.

Oh, and by the way, you hear an awful lot when you  hang about a hotel lobby and are quiet as a mouse.  Don't worry. What happened there, stayed there.

*Thoughts on the interior series: I'm glad I did these because I feel less disinclined to tackle interiors than I was before. Now I'll provide more context in my sketches of people in public places, for example.  I rediscovered my Cretacolor crayon/pencils which is, in general, a good thing. I thought I'd use gouache more than I did. I'm glad I fell upon using an everyday office pen with waterbrush for washes (see the computer lab sketch and Return of the Thingy)---that was such a fun discovery.  So cheap, so simple.  As Detlef suggested in his comment below, I did lots more drawings than I posted. There were some awful clunkers, but wasn't that the point--to get better at something I wasn't very good at?  There's no danger of my leaving home permanently for Interiors World, but I'm glad I spent a month there. 

If you have thoughts on this series, I'd love to hear/see them in your comments. I have made a separate Interiors photo album. It appears on the left side of the screen with the other photo albums.

Coming in February--- Food, Glorious Food!

Handbag innards: BCF #27

Innards, interiors, insides---after a month of obsessing, things get very fuzzy, don't you find?

Drawn while reading emails, lettered blind, colored peeking.

Click here for the rest of this week's crop of zany Blind Contour Drawings. We may be going to once a month soon.

The return of the Thingy

Not much time today so here's a quick interior sketch, number 30 of what will be 31, one for every January day. Can't wait for February's topic!

Scroll down to see the mysterious.... thing.  Or, if you can't scroll down, check out image in Sketchbook Photo Album at left.

Back in the saddle again

The camel saddle, that is :

One of the interior windows at the Persian Carpet, a fabulous store hereabouts.

And sitting on the floor, looking at a room you've seen before: (scroll down for full image.)

Now the only type of interior I've yet to do from the list I gave myself is a deep-space one.  I have several possibilities in mind.  Stay tuned.  And thanks once again to all of you who were so encouraging the past couple of days, when I was so tired.

Slow and tired--- but onward

It's cold and gray outside. I'm in good enough spirits, but I'm exhausted. This is not my best sketch to say the least, and yet, with it, I'm keeping my interiors promise. One could do worse.

My kitchen again, at dusk.

Tomorrow is another day.

Inside the computer lab

Too much Photoshop to learn,  too little time.  At least,  I got an interior sketch drawn while the teacher talked about gradients. I figured I probably wouldn't have too much use for those.

It's not the Phantom of the Opera: BCF #25

Oh,  I know  it looks like the chandelier is about to fall and crush his cranium,  but this is NOT that story. This is a former president of the US, done up in bronze ( and also pictured below),  brandishing the *morning newspaper in one hand and gesticulating limply with the other. Is he scolding his dog, taunting his next-door neighbor,  making an obscene gesture in Italian to his yard man? We'll never know. But judging  from the grimace on his face,  it wasn't a Zen moment for anyone concerned.

*I say newspaper, but, of course, I have no idea what he's holding.   Poetic license is  a handy thing.

For less ghostly, but yet less presidential Blind Contour Friday drawings please click here. Niff and Sutter will show you what to do.

It's official: I'm nuts

There YOU are,  enjoying this nice day, doing your stuff, taking your sanity for granted. YOU'RE not the one throwing herself in front of corinthian columns and rounded walls, bad portraits and dubious statues, in dim light, armed only with an 8b pencil and a couple of tattered brain cells. It's all very well for YOU.  And just whose idea WAS it to draw interiors this month???

One of our former presidents gesticulating limply in a rotunda somewhere.  (If for some reason, you want to see the whole thing, click and scroll down.)

Last night, when I had a slightly better hold on reality, I managed to eke out this head study of our model Manju, who was dressed in a sari . (Scroll away here, too.)

Woman in interior

More woman than interior, but that is just fine by me. In reality, the colored drawing is much larger (18" x 24") than the other one ( about 13 x 19) but such are the vagaries of Typepad imaging formats.

The righthand drawing (scroll down to see it) is done on paper with fibers embedded---looks odder here than in real life. Here she seems to be sitting in a windburst of down feathers. I loved using crayons in the drawing, far left.

Fun in Interior World!

Some days it's like pulling teeth (yesterday, for example) but other days it is zippy and fun! So here are two interiors from the good times. In the dark days ahead when walls and floors clash, when legs of furniture go horribly astray,  let us remember we had our  happy moments. Shall we?

At Charlie's Chinese restaurant. Drawn last night, painted this morning. Please scroll down for whole image.

 

One of two entryways in our house, drawn while sitting on the floor. The other entry has fewer curlicues and I will draw it  later this week. But, man, drawing those curlicues was so fun after doing battle with straightish lines for 16 days. I had intended to paint this,  but I like it black and white, for the moment anyway. Pen is a nice change, too, after all that pencil. Another one that requires scrolling down to see.