My High School Drawings!

I found my old folder of drawings. Anyone who sat next to me in any class probably saw something like this! What a blast to see these again. I can almost remember exactly what I was doing while drawing each of them. Perhaps this is why I didn't graduate higher in my class but did pretty well in Architecture school. My favorite themes were to take current cars and guess the future design, Dragons and the like, landscapes, etc.  Teenage boy stuff I guess... I wish I had dated all of these, but this is junior high and high school.

Laying out my John Pike palette with watercolor

My process of over thinking laying out a watercolor palate.

This is the final result

The new palatte. A John Pike from amazon via a gift card from my parents. The awesome brush as well.

First to pick the colors. I decided to use advice from Making Colors Sing and The Complete Watercolorist's Notebook. I worked to separate the primaries and separate them by cool to warm consistantly on each.  I do this because I am still working on my eye to distinguish the difference.

I put regular tape down first so I could write on the tape. Later I will rewrite with a marker and cover with another piece of tape to protect from the water.

I am interested in knowing and training my eye for 3 things. Cool to warm, transparent or staining, and of course the name and brand of each to replenish later.

Loosely basing the decisions on the two books mentioned before on advice about warm and cool, trans and staining, and how to seperate

Basic layout and verbiage

Close up of the blues with the basic info

I go over the pencil with a pen. I don't erase the pencil because I am too lazy to clean out the little bits of erasure and I am ok at tracing over the older lead.

Once done, I put a second piece of tape to seal it and start the fun part of squeezing out the tape.

The finished product.  Now....to paint.  Hopefully this was helpful. I didn't see anything this clear so I thought I would create it.  I am sure there are things I will learn, but this is something I can work with for a while!  Everything I have is based on travel kits, this is my first at home studio kit.  This palette comes with a cover.  Very cool. Thanks for looking!

JNUTT

D3 Sketch Competition Board 1

BTW - WAS CONTACTED THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THESE (MAYBE MORE) WAS SELECTED AND DISPLAYED OUT OF OVER 1,500 ENTRIES!! 

I recently submitted 5 boards to a call for art/competition with the theme of sketchings role in the world today. Or at least that is the part I latched onto.  I broke the way I use sketching into 5 distinct roles.  This first board is about how I sketch when I travel to remember, record, or just sit there and try to listen to what the architect is trying to say.  I am active in the Urban Sketchers community lately but these sketches range from 1999 on the top left to 2013.  I will post the others seperatley but they cover. Sketching for work. Sketching on the Ipad (new medium), Sketching through a design process, and using 3d modeling to design with and tell multiple stories (aesthetic and techincal).

I hope you enjoy. It was fun to categorize these and think about how we use sketches today.

3.1.2013 - I decided to place all of this into one post

Drawing the white bear center for the arts

I will add more later, but today I took my lunch in the car and started drawing the current white bear center for the arts thinking how to teach the class. This is not close to finished, and the drawing hasn't even convinced me it is keeper, but it is a good teacher....warts and all. These are chronological screen shots and might give a hint to my process.

T Rex!

Drawing dinosaurs with Leo didn't stop after he went to bed. I had so much fun with this I laughed the whole time I drew this. Soooo fun.

Leo loved it this morning but I made him look at it through a crack in the door to keep it from scaring him.

Fun with big cardboard

Our new couch came with huge card board. Leo and had a great time. He was beside himself.