Medusa

...for fun.  Also to test out painting gouache and watercolor on top of casein.  Every now and then I like to spend time rendering heads, but always feel like 'normal' is just not interesting enough, haha!  In this case I wanted to make her snakes suggest actual hair somewhat.  Still need to work out a couple more of the snake heads...

UPDATE: worked out the snake heads a bit more as well as other small bits here and there. 

Longshanks

Faun

A friend of mine and I are trying to do daily sketches for fun.  The goal for me is just to get something down quickly and not be too precious or worry about shading or color..

We had done this for a while in the past (back then it was once a week) but as these things go, we ran out of steam after a time.  Glad to be doing it again!

This was from yesterday:

A famous bridge

Not terrible I guess.

Worked a bit larger and tried to be a bit more disciplined about waiting for paint to dry and let watercolor be watercolor.  Still need to get better at planning.  And not get freaked out by so many girders.

I have no explanation

...except that the image appeared in my head one day and I had to get it down.  I think I was vaguely thinking of a Hindu god or something like that.

Ancient one

This arose from an thumbnail that I was just messing around with.  Probably calls for a tad bit more detail (like the feet?!), but...

I guess it's a combination of centipede, tardigrade, and a Lovecraft-ian 'elder one'.  Fun!

Eviction in SF

Some good friends of ours are being evicted from their home of more than ten years.  They put up a sign in their window (much to the chagrin of the new owners of the building, heh heh!) reflecting that fact.  Stories of evictions are ever present in SF these days, hanging uneasily in the air everywhere you go.  It is certainly wrenching to witness it at close range.

I went to do a sketch of it, and it was kind of a bizarre experience.  It was a beautiful afternoon, people were idly lazing about in the park with their dogs, this cry of despair from the building hanging over them.  Did it give them pause?  Who can say.  One fellow was doing his qi gong exercises nearby, completely immersed within himself; not far from him, a homeless guy was sprawled out.  Truly, a microcosm of San Francisco today.