Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Vector drawing
A cat, totally out of ellipses.

The hardest part was figuring out how to chop off bits of the ear and tongue. You have to make a mask by copying the occluding object, drawing a translucent square around both objects and doing some path manipulation to flip the negative space, then get the mask one layer about the object to be clipped and do a clip/set.

The hardest part was figuring out how to chop off bits of the ear and tongue. You have to make a mask by copying the occluding object, drawing a translucent square around both objects and doing some path manipulation to flip the negative space, then get the mask one layer about the object to be clipped and do a clip/set.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Virtual art meet-up
Mary tried a virtual meet-up today, to replace our normal meeting at the art museum, which is closed.
Today's challenge came from a quarantine art club on instagram. It was to pick something mundane, something extraordinary, and some garb and mash them together. So I did Aramis, with a lion's tail, and a surgical mask.
That took all of ten minutes, so I went looking for something else to draw. And saw Ollie sitting up on the hill in the backyard. She kept moving though, and eventually saw me through the window and ran down to ask for love.
And then I sneaked out the back door to see if I could snag one of Barbara's fallen red camellia blossoms to bring inside. No, her front yard was still filled with men and ladders. But I noticed a broken branch on one of my camellia's (Did it come that way, or was it hit by a flying shingle?) and brought that in instead.

Today's challenge came from a quarantine art club on instagram. It was to pick something mundane, something extraordinary, and some garb and mash them together. So I did Aramis, with a lion's tail, and a surgical mask.
That took all of ten minutes, so I went looking for something else to draw. And saw Ollie sitting up on the hill in the backyard. She kept moving though, and eventually saw me through the window and ran down to ask for love.
And then I sneaked out the back door to see if I could snag one of Barbara's fallen red camellia blossoms to bring inside. No, her front yard was still filled with men and ladders. But I noticed a broken branch on one of my camellia's (Did it come that way, or was it hit by a flying shingle?) and brought that in instead.

Saturday, March 21, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
Camellia
A few buds and flowers of the second new camellia.
I went outside for this one and sat on the wall between my yard and my neighbor's.
I went outside for this one and sat on the wall between my yard and my neighbor's.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Cherry tree
An unsatisfying sketch of one blooming cherry tree on the waterfront. I didn't stay long, cause it just felt too weird. Like there were too many people around.
Monday, March 16, 2020
Sunday, March 15, 2020
New plantings
I'd planned the locations of the new plants specifically so that I'd be able to see them from my bedroom windows. Which worked out nicely when I want to be able to sketch something from my window.
This is the part of the yard where most of the oak tree landed. So between that, and the chimney fall and the equipment used to get the oak tree out, there wasn't much of my old landscaping left.
This is a camellia on the left, and a dogwood on the right, and random rounds of pine tree trunk set up in between, as a sitting area.
This is the part of the yard where most of the oak tree landed. So between that, and the chimney fall and the equipment used to get the oak tree out, there wasn't much of my old landscaping left.
This is a camellia on the left, and a dogwood on the right, and random rounds of pine tree trunk set up in between, as a sitting area.
Construction
Workers showed up this morning to do some demolition on my next-door neighbor's house! Spanish-speaking guys, on a Sunday? Has mass been canceled? No, but the bishop has offered a dispensation, to those who aren't feeling well, or are at risk, are even the least bit uneasy about going to church.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Sunday, March 8, 2020
A Tale of Two Chimneys
Here's what my next-door neighbor's chimney used to look like. And behind her house, you can see the giant two-century old Oregon white oak that used to dominate her back yard.
And here's what it looks like today. After the oak came down and smashed its top off. And the masons scavenged enough of the fallen bricks to rebuild its stubby top.
And here's what it looks like today. After the oak came down and smashed its top off. And the masons scavenged enough of the fallen bricks to rebuild its stubby top.
And here's what my more humble chimney used to look like, peeking out from behind one of my pine trees.
And what it looks like now, even more humble than before.
The pine trees are gone as well. They gave their little lives, fending the worst of the damage off of my house. And will soon be replaced with little slips of trees - a magnolia and a dogwood. (These were supposed to have been planted on Friday. But my neighbor's masons needed to plant their scaffolding in my yard, so it's been delayed until this week.)
And my masons are showing up tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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