Micheangelo, Leonardo and people and things I see

A whirlwind of a tour Florence, Rome and Milan I have seen alot. Uffizi is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the world. The Vatican Art Museum, Milan Gallary to name a few......Botticelli, Da Vinci, Rapheal, Michealangelo there everywhere. well here are some drawing of the things I have seen.






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More People I See and Mario

I been drawing quite alot these few days going to my favorite Cafe', indoors of course it snowing for the pass 3 days. So I got to draw plenting of customers, except there short headed girl is a model from an art book, since I stayed in one day to draw. and of course the Mario I did when waiting for Marla at the Gamestop Warehouse. Plenty of characters all over place there.



Mario done pencil and Copic Markers




Aysun just started to Ink her then she left


After Aysun left in the middle, I stayed with this one with pencil and it is easier to add and subtract(erase and layer)with a pencil, even when they leave. I worked on this one at home for 2.5 hours, FYI using pencil I am also able to stay with the same stroke. If I change to pen it is weighs a little heaver and feels different, not bad just different and of course no erasing with marker.


Tina never turned around Markers



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The People I See

Being a regular at a Cafe' I gets some little perks, I get the couch to sit on the rest is chairs. a long coffee table to put my stuff, and a great hostess( she is actually great to everyone). I get a get place to people watch and draw they when they least suspect. I do get caught too, a couple guys from Turkey named Kuddis and Ozcan saw me spying then were happy that I was drawing them, it still didn't keep them still.
Speakin of which is probably the hardest thing about what i am doing most people don't keep still, it is really not thier job any way. I like doing this gecause they are naturally relaxing and being who they are. This has helped me get faster in my sketching, get the main gestures or body language then working from memory. A few times I get I steal a photo with my itouch and work a bit from that. This is from a couple days at the cafe'.

This is the view from where I sit on a comfy couch


Kuddis and Ozcan

Karen and some customers......I broke 100 hours on this one!!!!!!!!

More customers





Breaking 100 hours is so sweet.

21 hours with 882 hours to go!!!!

Some Drawings I Missed Publishing

I still have I haven't showed I got my Mac not talking to me right now so photos from my iPhone I can't retreive.

Lady at the Copenhagen Airport

Statues at the Hamlet.
On our last day in Sweden, we drove up the coast to Helsingborg. We discovered that there was a castle across the water, in Denmark, called "The Hamlet", the inspiration of Shakespeare's play. It's origins date back to 1499.

Quick 2 minute gestures

More Stuff I have seen and drawn

I am starting with a Apology , I have a problem with adding some pictures to my blog because my iPhoto isn't working. Also, So many of my small Artist trading cards I have given away I didn't get photos of, but I do have a few. I will add more comments as the day goes on. I want to thank the many of the people I met in the Copenhagen airport, My new friend from Uruguay you very gracious with your words and I hope you become a follower.

Marker and Pencil

The only Viking dude in the US I know is Thor from Marvel Comics, I gave this to our swedish host Helena and Martin, who provide a traditional swedish faire I cannot pronounced but tasted great. They are fans of the Big Bang Theory so we saw 2 episodes.

I went to a malmo castle museum which had all kinds of things, an aquarium, a natural history museum, a prison museum, an armory, a Nelson Mandela retrospect, art museum etc. this drawing is from a photo I saw in the prison section, she one of the many executed in this prision she was killed for not being able to take care of her children. For some reason I was drawn to her eyes.

Quick drawing with an ink brush


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Drawing and painting Digitally

Since Marla has been ill for a few days I have been a good guy nursing her back to health. Still pray , she is not quite over this. We have been stuck at home other than my small trips to the apothocary.

Anyway since I have not made any trips to draw i decided to draw in photoshop, so here is what I did it took about 4 hours to do, but I am well pleased with it. This was a icon I saw in Munich and I wanted it to be painterly like Vemeer, though he never work this genre. I have always enjoyed how he painted regular people and elevated them so the viewer would notice common people doing ordinary things. I know what Jesus did is not ordinary, please don't take it that way.




4 Hours with 913 hours to go.

Cafe' and Munich

Having time to draw here and there has been very relaxing, Café Servus has been rich with personalities an d good kaffe. Hannes, an 60-something man retired insurance guy funny, jovial who wanted me to draw him. I did have a good 5 min sketch of him, but I didn't have my camera to show ya'll. I have met Evelyn, my first German to visit my blog, she is nice person who has helped me with some german. Biggie, one of my wait persons who contrary to her name is probably 40kg (90 lb). Sorry on montag(monday) I gave the stuff I drew away no samples no camera drats.




People I saw in 2-5 minutes each.

Church of St Martin in Memmingen this is a Bas-relief on the corner of the building





Munich museums New, modern, National



this from the National Marker, pencil and pen

Modern sketch



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Time to Draw, Yahoo!!!!

I got to draw today, the first for my time here. I found a small cafe' in the Real' shopping center, indoors it is about 32 degrees outside here which is 0 celcius here. Most older volks come here because it is warm.
I met the wait person yesterday when Marla and I went to eat lunch there. Karen suggested a Latte Machillo not bad, with toast and ham. I drew my breakfast Pencil and Copic marker, because most people came in quickly and were in and out in 5-10 minutes. Older group comes by to sit and converse a little later in the morning, Beer for breakfast is a new thing to see(wait old roomy John S. would do that often) I couldn't do it, but hey it is what it is. Then there was great old gentleman sit in front of me, he had so much character in his face, Karen told me it was Mr. Link. I didn't meet him, he was engaged with his friend. but I got to spend about an hour on him I did like result, pencil only.
Funny note in my limited german I know listening to old people here talk about their ailments and doctor appointments too.
I did work on a concept for a painting, picture for that is later.





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My New Digs

I know I haven't made many contributions lately, Sorry guys moving in to my new place this is time consuming and my German is Lacking. All that said I am still attempting to get phone service, yaddayaddayadda. Here is my new place.



I am on the 4th floor the one small window, small but nice.



The view from our street is of the Gerber platz (place), a little park with an interesting building covered in vines.



This is "der Marktplatz", like the city center. It's pretty cool to see mix of old and new buildings.

People Watching Here and There.

As my move is drawing nearer time to draw has become less and less. but I have been sneaking in a 15 minutes here an hour there. but i did get 6 hours in this week, yep that is weak. But here are some people at Starbucks, Chicfila, A waiting room, The Kingsville Public Library, and Grapevine Mills Mall.




I am also preparing for my swan song, my last day at Boomerang Comics in Lewisville Texas. I will be signing and selling Comic book stuff Art cards and originals it will be on October 24th 2009, it is a Saturday 1-4 pm so come on by and say goodbye and buy something!!! there will be some great deals. Boomerang Comics will have a sale on all kinds of stuff and a costume contest.




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Stuff Available in Art Cards and Originals (none these are part of my hours)