A lightbulb w birds on its wires, a rose closeup with a cat profile inside, an arrangement of tailor’s tools, a painted primate - Sip & Sketch Session #35

Drawings from online zoom sketch session 12/11/20

Sip n Sketch session #35, hosted by theater costume and set designers, Lisa Jordan and Cindi Taylor, 

Thank you so much for making these sessions possible. 

They curate a set of images for each session. Participants draw each selection at varying ‘pose’ lengths - until the timer rings. Then most participants show their drawings briefly for a group screen shot in ‘gallery ‘ view.

Lightbulb with birds on the wire

A rose with unintended cat’s profile ...

Wheelchair dancers

Praying mantis and prey.

Tailor’s tools.

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That ribbon chapel building is by  Hiroshi Nakamura 

The primate is a Mandrill, similar to a baboon. It appears to be painted but that is how they are made!

The dancer wearing a crown of roses, reminds me of a Caravaggio subject. 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-caravaggio-getty-20171220-htmlstory.html

Face and overlapping landscape scene...

Rembrandt, Durer, and Callot figures; street scenes, abstract nature formation photos - some of the subjects from virtual sketch session, 12/14/20

 Rembrandt, Durer, and Callot  figures; street scenes, abstract nature formation photos - some of the subjects from virtual sketch session, 12/14/20

The host, Liz Popiel, 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 the Zoom platform.

These are my drawings from the session. I’ve been drawing these on the iPad mini using the iPencil. It’s handy and the black is black. But not really better or easier than physical media. It gives certain constraints to deal with, that I don’t see as worthwhile skills to be developing, the iPencil is a much better drawing tool than a ‘stylus’. There’s no really good solution yet. Technology just is not there yet. And most tablet users are not people who do lots of writing or drawing. So, I don’t have much faith this will be developed into a real useful working function.

I’ve been drawing these in ‘Notes’. I try to start a new strip perhaps every 4-5 images. If I were to cut these up into separate images, would they be about the same resolutions as if they had been 

drawn as single images? Have yet to test that.

Many thanks to Liz for making this happen.

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Gingerbread house coloring page, 12/4/20

Gingerbread house coloring page, 12/4/20
Download, print, and color! Have fun. Better yet, draw this with your own variations. Maybe you'll make, bake, and decorate a gingerbread house cake!

Christmas and December holidays motifs demo drawings to color.

Christmas and December holidays motifs demo drawings to color.

December Children’ Drawing Programs, 2020

 December Children’ Drawing Programs, 2020 

Here are the themes for the December workshops as they would have been. 

12/01    Gingerbread houses & holiday decorations

12/08   Hanukkah celebrations 12/10-18

12/15    Christmas and Holiday cards 

12/22   Holiday cards & winter solstice & Kwanzaa (12/26-1/1)

12/29   New Year's Eve Celebrations

Download these demo drawings to try your hand at drawing. Or print out and color!

St. Nicholas Day - Cat and Pig set out shoes, phone drawings, 12/6/20

 St. Nicholas Day - Cat and Pig set out shoes, phone drawings, 12/6/20

...and they have plenty of apples. I’ve seen some shoes with carrots? - aahh, the kids put them out for St. Nick’ps steed, be it donkey, horse, or reindeer. St. Nick puts candy into the shoes. And I thought it was package delivery that brought me my order of chocolates yesterday - right thru the letter slot out of the incoming northwest winds storm’s way. But the package was too big for the letter slot. Someone actually put it inside my door!

Cat and Pig’s St. Nicholas Day, ‘touch’ drawing. 12/6/20.❤️ - CK

Cat and Pig like St. Nicholas Day, ‘sig’ drawing. 12/6/20. - CK

digital drawings from Sip & Sketch session #33, 11/27/20. It was the day after Thanksgiving

 My digital drawings from Sip & Sketch session #33, 11/27/20. It was the day after Thanksgiving. Images ranged from an reptilian eye close up to a formation of flamingos, and a classic Maine lighthouse scene.

....drawings from online zoom session. Sip n Sketch session #33(?), hosted by theater costume and set designers, Lisa Jordan and Cindi Taylor, 

Thank you so much for making these sessions possible. 

They curate a set of images for each session. Participants draw each selection at varying ‘pose’ lengths - until the timer rings. Then most participants show their drawings briefly for a group screen shot in ‘gallery‘ view.

Flamingos

Curvy modern architecture

Yellow house with yellow flowers 

China stacked teacups ladies 

Portland Head Lighthouse

Reptilian eye close-up
Daughter of actor Will Smith
Mending flows of fishing nets, A & B