Sketchcrawl With Sketchy Friends

Six new sketchy friends met at the Met to draw and chat.

We drew a little, chatted a lot and had a lovely lunch in Central Park on the first warm day of this (post winter?) season.

Here  is my second drawing 

from the special exhibition: Drawings From the Collection of Jean Bonna

It seems a bit odd to make a drawing from a drawing. I am not accustomed to copying the style of another artist. As it turns out I needed to finish up this sketch at home where I added my own information in the shading. After all, the original is done in a bright pink gouache and only pencils are allowed to be used in the galleries at the Metropolitan.

With due respect to Andrea Joseph whose detailed drawings have truly provided an inspiration for me I drew this for my amazing grandson Connor as his Christmas present. He and I have spent a lot of quality time together over the years (all seven of them). Connor has many special interests so it was impossible to cram them all into his backpack but I had to give it a try. Whether or not the drawing is as successful as I would have liked is open to question. No matter. The reaction from Connor was satisfaction enough.
Oh, and I forgot to label the waffle and that would have been important as the drawing doesn't really look like one.

The First Day Of Christmas

There are quite a few drawings done over Christmastime that I will upload today, therefore they will not be sequential or even timely as it is now January 6 (so soon?). Christmas week was spent in Stowe, VT with most of the family, my sketchbook, lots of snow, and internet access but no scanner so there was no opportunity to upload. After finishing Danny Gregory's class I am very excited to explore and open up to using new materials. Having said that this drawing was done with plain old graphite in my Moleskine. Ding A Ling!