May 1

I've been participating in the Every Day in May group, http://www.frenchtoastgirl.com/weblog/blogger.shtml, sponsored by this blogger, so I've been drawing or painting or doing something artistic every day--well, almost--this month. On May 1 I sketched A. It was a rushed week, too, b/c I was playing in the pit orchestra for a school musical, and the first week in May was filled with dress rehearsals and 3 performances.

challenge 104--salt and pepper shakers

challenge 103--exercise equipment

Well, what can I say? I don't really exercise. But I have recently done some Pilates and maybe I'll start doing that. Maybe.

challenge 5--my bed

This is my bed. The complexity of the quilt wore me out, so I didn't put it all in. I was looking at Saul Steinberg's work when I did this, so perhaps he influenced me a bit.

Challenge 100--landscape

In my painting class we taped brushes to long sticks and painted with our papers on the floor or on a box, depending on how long the sticks were. It made us have less control and more looseness in our pictures. It was a lot of fun. This is a beach in Maui, with the big island in the distance. I'm counting it for challenge 100.

Homemade painting board for tripod

A couple of EDM friends asked for photos of a board made for me for painting by our family handyman. It is a piece of masonite, 12 x 16 inches, with a smaller piece of wood, 5 x 5 inches, glued onto the back of it. In the center of the smaller piece of wood a hole was drilled and an inset that fits the screw on a camera tripod was inserted and glued in. I believe it is a standard size, maybe a quarter inch inset, and my handyman seems to recall that he took the tripod to Home Depot to find the right size. To use it, I screw it onto the tripod like I would attach a camera to a tripod.




Here are some other views of the setup. Sometimes I use masking tape to hold the paper down and sometimes I use clamps. Home Depot has several kinds, even smaller and cuter ones nowadays.
The entire board and screw cost a couple of dollars. And I already had a tripod.

ER visit

How crazy it is to have grabbed my sketchbook for the inevitable wait in the ER? I'm glad I had it, though.