Bored during the TAKS

Did ever do something you hated?  For me is the TAKS testing done in schools, I know as an educator I am supposed be in to this but I just can't enjoy it. I have to monitor the kids to make sure they don't cheat, disturb or mess with other students during the test. So I got to draw to the students testing ten minutes here, five minutes there and I picked up a  Michelangelo book and I did a few scribbles from there.

Three Acrylic New Ones

Acrylic 

Acrylic

Acrylic

Just added a Few..... teaching at school and at Painting with a Twist is taking a toll on my free drawing and painting time, I with post some classroom drawing.

Back to Teaching at PWAT

I am teaching again at school and Painting with a Twist   .

Pair of Pears Acrylic

Sunflowers Acrylic

Student done with a Sharpie

Snowed In

For those who have not ventured out in this past week it is cold, so I have been snowed in myself. After catching up to all the paper work since I started teach school again, I have used my free time to draw and a little painting. I have done a little of everything, my mind has been scatter shooting so my drawing has been following suit.

STILL LIFE 2 HOURS - Graphite
A Pair of Pears and 3 Cherries

Pietro da Cortona, was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque. He is best known for painting fresco ceilings. This is my version of Head of an Angel his was ink on paper, mine is mix media Markers, ink, paint on paper. Cortona was known for is copies of Rapheal when he was young, Cortona was recognized among the top artists of his generation, and was elected director of the Academy of St Luke (Rome) during 1634-38.

Head of an Angel
Mix Media - 4 hours

Wolverine a superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Born as James Howlett and commonly known as Logan. I like him because he is 5 foot 5, yeah that is why I started liking him. He gets in fits of  "berserker rage" , protects the down trodden and he is the money maker for Marvel

Wolverine - Marker
30 minutes

Sunflower _ Acrylic
4 Hours

This is a sunflower I made for my sister for Christmas, late of course... this very thick in paint and fun to do. A shout out for my sister, though she will probably won't read this, she is awesome and a hero of mine.

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In Progress,  "Lemons" about 10 hours

Moonlit Cherry Blossoms

one for Marla

I have working painting and drawing often, but some of the work I can't show y'all. I am working on a graphic novel with an author so it has been comic characters.

I have a Part-time gig with a group called Painting With A Twist so I teach adults how to paint on canvass and they take something home after 2 or 3 hours to hang in their home.

It is a fun way to get a little art lesson,  drink a little wine hang out with friends.

Everything other than the Lemons can be done at PWAT

All this is about 28 hours of work and fun.

The new updated time

677 hours done.......

323 hours  to  go!!!!

Geisha Girl

one for me

Vangogh Tree

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Drawing in Church

I know some people when you think of drawing in church it is a bad thing. Not for me, it is a way I stay engaged with the talk by illustrating what I hear. These are from the the Christmas season, I used some classical Iconography such as the dove being the "Holy Spirit" Elemental symbols were widely used by the early Church. 

Traveling and Waiting

Traveling during Christmas I had to do the manger scene

In the past 3 weeks I have traveled about 16,000 miles,  on bus, car, boat, and plane so I have been waiting a lot. I brought my sketch pad on my trip to Patigonia here are few sketches of people waiting as well.

Starbucks is a must when sitting at airports

I thought this girl hiding behind her jacket was cute

waiting

Reading