Some very old community theatre posters

I spent most of the morning working up a poster for a local community theatre. I didn't have any illustration board and had to work in pen and ink on a rougher surfaced sketch paper.  The surface wasn't quite slick enough, but there appeared to be no bleeding.

Trying to find the time to draw....

I just finished playing for a production of Tarzan and now I am practicing the score for the Fantasticks.  A 55 hour workweek and piano jobs at church and in the community sometimes make it difficult to focus on my art...gets me down. Add to that spring asthma and allergy flares and you have the perfect recipe for a self pity party...stop crying you big baby.

SpringBreak

As the year winds down, I find myself trying to plan projects for Summer.  There is a likelihood that I will have a large room for a studio.  I envision a drafting table, a desk, storage shelves, space for computer and scanner, and easel. It will be amazing to move beyond the tiny pages of my sketchbooks into larger scale works again.

Last day of Spring break

I spent the day storyboarding a poem that I had published in Backbone Mountain Review and adding a few drawings to the ongoing Rosamund saga.  4 mile walk cleared my head.

Small watercolor sketch on gesso

Watercolor Pencil over Gesso

Coated a page of my moleskine sketchbook with Gesso to prepare for a watercolor sketch. It was interesting working on bright white after only working on eggshell for 6 months.  The gesso made the watercolors seem less translucent. I think I'll go back to just using my moleskine watercolor notebook.
The Derwent watercolor pencils that I got for Christmas seem to be much more saturated then the more expensive prismacolor set I already had.