My turn to post

I'm going to try to post something regularly on this blog for the month of December.  I enjoy the blogs and art of so many other people and yet never get around to posting things myself, so here goes.

I was tempted to go to Ferguson to draw the protests, but it's not safe.  Even daredevils I know said it was not a good scene, and one was robbed at gunpoint.  So I drew this from the live coverage on TV late at night as we watched, sadly, the burning of businesses and livelihoods.

I'm trying to use up a sketchbook that has paper that is kind of good for nothing.  It drains my markers, clogs my pens, and devours my paint.  I used watersoluble crayons for the above picture.  Then I doodled some simplified critters for a bit and had fun doing a herd of horned critters as part of my Sketchbook Skool homework.

A new painting for 2014

After painting 3 cakes for the St. Louis city Cakeway to the West birthday celebration, I was glad to get back to painting.  Here's one so far.  It's titled Overgrown.  11x14, acrylic.

rally squirrel from fans

rally squirrel from fans, a photo by luv2draw on Flickr.

And I had to paint the rally squirrel.

baseball fans other side

baseball fans final 2, a photo by luv2draw on Flickr.

Here's the other side of the cake and a bit of trivia for you: the city of St Louis was founded in 1764. (In baseball it makes for a lot of runs and even more hits!!)

baseball fans cake

baseball fans final 1, a photo by luv2draw on Flickr.

My 3rd cake, called Baseball fans. StL has the best fans in baseball.

balloons and confetti

balloons and confetti 2, a photo by luv2draw on Flickr.

This was my second cake, just a happy party cake.

People of StL cake

people of stl final 1, a photo by luv2draw on Flickr.

I painted 3 cakes for the celebration of St. Louis' 250th birthday. I painted overlapping city buildings in skin tones for the background, then over that I copied sketches of people from the StL area that I have made over the years from my sketchbooks.