newish figure drawings

...even though they're never as good as I'd like them to be, there you go...plus, I was too lazy to scan them..

Here's a watercolor with a new Sennelier palette. The colors were crazy saturated and different from my usual choices, and i felt very out of control.  Still, I kind of like the effect and liked how her face turned out.

HBf Köln

study..better than i thought, but not all i had hoped.  it's hard to stay loose in perspective...

warning: offensive language

I usually don't do fan art, but seeing as the man who is currently playing Doctor Who also played one of my favorite characters: Malcolm Tucker from the series "The Thick of It" and the movie "In the Loop".  Not that this is remotely in my personality, but I would love to swear as fluently as he!

halloween

i guess?

always surprised

...when something turns out better than expected...an inkling of understanding...

these were 20 minutes each.

plein air on hyde street pier

hadn't done this in a looooong time! and embarrassingly, this was my first time visiting the ship 'balclutha'.  i will definitely be making a return trip! $5 gets you access to four historic ships for 7 days?! gotta love the national park service!

this, my first for the day, turned out way better than it had any right to:

the tugboat 'hercules':

trying to creep myself out a little

more or less succeeded....this started off as an abstract thing that wasn't becoming anything, so i set it aside for months.