Yay, finished one of the sketchbooks on my list, the 4x6 inch aquabee. Actually I've also put away two others, but they were writing journals that are more private and I don't usually put up on the web. I think this is Sketchbook #12 in my list of completed sketchbooks. I did actually do several more sketches. I tried to collage them in photoshop but that ended in frustration for lack of time. Mom came in and started demanding more of my time while I was working on it.
View of the living room (also floor lamp & table lamp for scavenger hunt) acrylics in a 6x8 inch watercolor pad. Started as a pen & wash. Then I added watersoluble graphite to darken some areas. It just got all muddied up so I covered it all with acrylic paint.
Mandalay Beach looking toward Ventura. Watersoluble graphite on ATC size watercolor paper. Sketched during my walk on the beach. Resisting the urge to add color, but even though the sun came out, the dominating color was gray. Can't see all the way to Ventura today, can't see the Channel Islands. 
In my recent "busy-ness" with work, I couldn't relax enough in the down time to draw or create. But with the surplus income, some discounted scrapbooking materials have been finding their way into my art supplies. Cheap stuff, but now I don't know what to do with it. I do take photographs and sometimes I print them, not usually for my self. I don't have a passion to focus on beyond art. Tonight I started cutting out letters for the message I don't have. I don't have patience for cutting, either. That was abandoned after the first letter. I drew some great letters though. This is collage in the 9x12 brown paper sketchbook.
This is more what I had in mind when I thought of "raptor." Prismacolor Art Stix in the 9x12 brown paper sketchbook. Green is the color I had in mind over the brown of the actual model. 
A bit of imagination. Couple pages from cleaning my palette. OP over acrylic. My imaginary raptor (bird of prey) still looks too much like my ol' parrot. Couple of pages in the brown paper sketchbook, one of the ones on my 2011 art goals list. On 5/21/11 when that old dude predicted the end of the world "rapture", my crazy brain came up with a picture of flock of big old pre-historic birds of prey coming down to snatch up the 200,000 people (or whatever that number was.) Guess the big birds got lost in modern air traffic control.
Sketched for scavenger hunt #211. Sharpie extra fine on acrylic background in the Strathmore sketchbook. I've been drawing my left hand alot lately, maybe because I never misplace it.
Storefront of the cafe where we had lunch. Very popular place for lunch. I had no regrets, YUM!
Re-scanned my room sketch. Unfortunately no more sketches for the rest of the trip. I had my kit with me for the Botanical Gardens but all those greens intimidated me. I will be sketching or painting from my photos, though.
Elephant Odessy, water soluble graphite & micron pen in the 6x8 inch sketchbook.
The portable scanner lost some data at the page transition of the double page spread. I was relaxing in the room and I felt like sketching it with a Bic pen in my Pentalic Journal.
I knew I'd have a busy day, so I intended to do Worldwide Sketchcrawl #30 "in spirit." Had a good start 8am at the Navy Base but was too busy to sketch the rest of the day. Drove out to Auntie's house (100 miles) where she immediately put me to work. I've also had her computer for 2 months while she was on vacation because her dial up wasn't working. I had updated windows, virus scanner, etc. from my wifi but never had a chance to work on her dial up because I don't have a phone line. Threw up my hands after 2 hours and went to the local McDonalds to download some drivers. Got it working on my netbook, then got it working on her computer. Got home at 10pm.
