Animal Parade

A bit of whimsy to liven up the day. 

Dogs, dogs, dogs

   Sketching dogs.  Just because. 

Update on Work Front

What's cooking on the book table since Zig was done? 

- Lots of time on SUZETTE.  Probably more than I should have. 

- Finally putting SOPHIE to rest.  A proposal I worked on for years.  It starts with an Ogre stealing a baby away and, during this economic time of duress, we can't have anything like that it seems. 

 However fanciful the story and soundly rescued said baby.  Oh well.  Better move on than dwell. 

For fun, here is a page from SOPHIE:

- Slow, slooooooow  progress on another project.  I have a story line.  In spite of the agony over its worth, I finally have a VERY ROUGH dummy.  And a couple of character sketches (top image.) Now I need to tackle that dummy and bring it to a readable state.  

cute but not it

sleeping

acrylic sketch

after 3 double spreads along these lines, decided that it wasn't the way i wanted this idea to evolve. i guess it is good to find out where one doesn't want to go. like eliminating a wrong path in the creative labyrinth. still the sketches helped me discover a possible story line. will that survive? to be followed.

snow day

what i've been doing...

i remember when there was no such thing as "too much snow". that was a long time ago, when there was also no such thing as a "side-walk to shovel".

just for fun

amusing little doodles done for no reason at all.

working, working.

working hard. just not posting.
reviewing old ideas, redoing dummies, experimenting with drawing styles, discarding some, starting others...
fun, but hard to stay on track. a good talk with Linda always helps.

fritz update.

This is another try for possible finishes. Just a try. Fritz is ready to knock on doors.

contradiction

character study

happy with what i am working on, and yet at such a slow pace... will be starting 2nd stage (refining very very rough sketches). hopefully this will go a bit faster.
thank you Karen, for your support and enthusiasm.

on and off

on and off

i have been working on this child-like style lately and enjoying it tremendously. felt like posting a picture tonight. do you like this one?