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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Draw, Doodle Sketch Virtual Session, #26, 10/5/20

The host, LizPopiel, has curated a set of images, (whether photos or art), for us to draw that session. They start with short times,3 min.) ,set to a timer, and continue to longer ‘Poses’, c. 20 min, as if they were models posing. Participants hold up their work, if willing, between each image. This is all done over Zoom.

These are my drawings from the session. I keep using a black Crayola crayon. Only because when I was drawing with students in my own classes, I needed something dark enough to be seen. It turned out to make better coloring pages. I don’t particularly like it tho. The new little box of just black Crayola crayons does not seem to be as dark a black. Say it is not so. I’m sure there are loads of black Crayola crayon stubs rolling around here!

I did leave this session early because I was having such a hard time concentrating.

Many thanks to the host, Liz Popiel, for making this happen.

Black crayon drawings from Sip & Sketch online drawing session #25(?), 10/2/20

The host, Lisa Jordan, has curated a set of images, (whether photos or art), for us to draw that session. They start with short times,3 min.) ,set to a timer, and continue to longer ‘Poses’, c. 20 min, as if they were models posing. Participants hold up their work, if willing, between each image. This is all done over Zoom.

These are my drawings from the session. Many thanks to the host, Lisa Jordan, and partner host, Cindi Taylor, for making this happen.

Cat and Pig Check Out Noodle Day and Touch Tag Day, phone drawings 10/ 6-8/20

Cat and Pig Check Out Noodle Day and Touch Tag Day, imessage phone drawings 10/6-8/20

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Sip & Sketch online drawing sessions #24, 9/25/20

Here are the drawings I did last Friday night at the ‘Sip & Sketch’ online drawing Zoom sessions #24, 9/25/20, hosted by Lisa Jordan, a costume designer and educator.

It isn’t really a class with a ‘teacher’. It’s a session or activity. It is free. Host puts up the image and we draw for however long the timer is on for. Then participants all hold up their drawings and the host takes a screen shot. It’s held via zoom. The Friday session is two hours 7-9 pm.

October children’s drawing programs, 2020

This is the October 2020 kids’ class schedule that would have been:

10/06 Autumn leaves and trees

10/13 Pumpkin patches and scarecrows

10/20 Owls and bats and cats

10/27 Spooky Halloween with Jack-O-Lanterns, haunted houses, witches, goblins, and more.

You can download these demonstration drawings to print out. Draw your own October and Halloween scenes from these and/or use them to color!

Presidential Debate #1, 9/29/20

The debates: I had no intention of paying attention. It was on the radio. I listened to npr news reporters as they waited. And then it started. Before I could turn it off, it got so ridiculous that it was funny. I kept listening just to hear where their voices and tone would take them. People just don’t get it. Wallace was such a bad moderator. You can’t get swept up in an argument w a kid, which is what it was. He had no idea how to stop T. People in these positions are always testing boundaries and pecking orders. This is tv - it’s theater. It’s live. People tune in to see what might happen. T is a master of keeping his audience. I think he made his position stronger. Many People want The person who is in charge. In this case it was him. And that was only because Wallace let go of his chance to be in charge.

Biden Has a good resonant voice but kept whining whatever he was pitching.

I blame Wallace for not being up to the job. The venue I guess for selecting him

as moderator. Where have all these news people been all this time for not expecting such a debacle?

And now, the perception is that W was favoring B, ie biased.