Buck Samuel Dollars
Buck Samuel Dollars got beard extensions to save wildlife. (For my upcoming book, "Birds in Beards.")
Mash Up
I've worked it out with Alex Bledsoe: we're doing an Official Coloring Book of the Tufa. Huzzah!
In celebration, I did a mash up of my two projects. Here's Alex Bledsoe with a bird... Well, next to his beard. This owlet is just too big for Alex's beard.
Beard Model Search
Are you a dude with a beard? Or do you know one?
I'm looking for pictures of bearded people to draw from for my new coloring book, "Birds In Beards." I could imagine or make up some faces with beards, but pictures drawn from real life always turn out looking better. So, could I draw you? Please? It's like getting a super cheap portrait! Granted, it's a super cheap portrait where I will make you look like a lunatic with serious hygiene issues, and I will write a silly poem about you that will be all lies, but still. A portrait. Of you with a friendly bird in your beard. It will be fun! It will be life changing. What do you think?
If you agree to allow me to make your portrait, please post your picture to my Facebook page, and copy and paste this statement with it: "I freely give Shoshanah Marohn permission to draw my likeness and publish it in a book."
Thank you in advance!
Please share this with a bearded person you know. Women can be included, too. I'm not discriminating.
I'm looking for pictures of bearded people to draw from for my new coloring book, "Birds In Beards." I could imagine or make up some faces with beards, but pictures drawn from real life always turn out looking better. So, could I draw you? Please? It's like getting a super cheap portrait! Granted, it's a super cheap portrait where I will make you look like a lunatic with serious hygiene issues, and I will write a silly poem about you that will be all lies, but still. A portrait. Of you with a friendly bird in your beard. It will be fun! It will be life changing. What do you think?
If you agree to allow me to make your portrait, please post your picture to my Facebook page, and copy and paste this statement with it: "I freely give Shoshanah Marohn permission to draw my likeness and publish it in a book."
Thank you in advance!
Please share this with a bearded person you know. Women can be included, too. I'm not discriminating.
Yellow Warbler
Chad never goes to the barber;
He keeps a home for the Yellow Warbler.
Why? Chad's a weird guy.
Why? Chad's a weird guy.
Battleship
Bad Assed Husband and Z were playing Battleship, a two player game. I asked if they minded if I sat next to them and drew a picture. And BAH said,
"I don't mind, but you have to draw a battleship."
I'm pretty sure he was joking, but I nevertheless drew a battleship.
"I don't mind, but you have to draw a battleship."
I'm pretty sure he was joking, but I nevertheless drew a battleship.
Also available on Artpal for prints or mugs or whatever. :)
Idea for a New Coloring Book
New coloring book- a little bit of a different tone from the last... coming soon, maybe! If I have time. You know.
Ornithology, personal care, it's got it all! What do you think?
Ornithology, personal care, it's got it all! What do you think?
Drawing a Day: My Left Hand
It's a good drawing exercise to just draw hands. They are notoriously difficult, and kind of fun. I'm not sure that anyone would want to purchase a simple drawing of my hand, but I put it on Art Pal anyway. I think this is a letter in sign language, but I don't remember which one.
In short, today's drawing is incredibly exciting in every way.
In short, today's drawing is incredibly exciting in every way.
Drawing a Day: Cats on the Couch
Back to back, of course. I don't know if they'll ever like each other.
This and all of the drawings so far are available on a coffee mug.
Drawing a Day: Choose Your Own Monster
I drew a picture on two pages and I wasn't sure how to take a picture of it, so I did a little movie.
Music by Bob Lee, The Technical Academy Plays b0b album. Special appearance by Grenix the Cat.
I realize, sadly, that I shall never be a hand model.
Music by Bob Lee, The Technical Academy Plays b0b album. Special appearance by Grenix the Cat.
I realize, sadly, that I shall never be a hand model.
Music Monday: Barko the Clown Dog
My uncle, Dennis C. Lee, wrote and played this song-- with several of my cousins, I believe. (I was supposed to be on the recording [fiddle- I would have played the part that is synthesizer in the beginning] but I wasn't in Pennsylvania at the time, so it didn't happen.) Since I didn't get into the recording, I somehow ended up creating the video. This was several years ago. I was still in my "Das Klique" period.
At the time, Dennis said we might get to be on the Conan O'Brien show and play this song. I guess he had some connections. I told my dad about it and he was like,
"You'll never get on Conan without being in the Musician's Union!"
Clearly, that is the only reason we weren't on Conan O'Brien.
Anyway, enjoy!
At the time, Dennis said we might get to be on the Conan O'Brien show and play this song. I guess he had some connections. I told my dad about it and he was like,
"You'll never get on Conan without being in the Musician's Union!"
Clearly, that is the only reason we weren't on Conan O'Brien.
Anyway, enjoy!
Drawing a Day: Owl
This one was drawn at Z's swim lesson, with a ten year old mostly naked Russian-American child hanging over my shoulder, and his mother behind us, talking in Russian. And him answering in English, "Yeah, yeah... no, she said it was okay."
I did say it was okay.
I did say it was okay.
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| Great Horned Owl, I think. |
Drawing a Day: Queen of Cats
Sometimes, I fantasize about drawing a game of some sort. Maybe a card game. This is the Queen of Cats.
This is what it looks like when you break a six gallon glass carboy in your shower.
Why was I showering with a six gallon glass carboy? You might ask. To get it clean, of course.
Don't worry. The beer was already in the keg.
Drawing a Day: Tree
Tree with roots!
The whole tree, you might say.
The whole tree, you might say.
I've been putting these up at my art pal page, too- so if you want this on a coffee mug, well, you can have it! :)
Drawing A Day: Alice's Hair
This one was inspired by my college roommate, Alice, who had (probably still has) the most amazingly beautiful, curly red hair I've ever seen on anyone. And it went with her looks, too. She's quite stunning.
Tom Robbins wrote something about redheads, once:
"The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that one a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies."
Tom Robbins wrote something about redheads, once:
"The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that one a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies."
So, I drew her in black and white! And she is a very clean person. A spider would never, ever, ever find its way into her hair!
Drawing a Day: Washing Dishes
This guy is completely imaginary, as is the bird in the window. I'm not sure if it's a really bird, or a ceramic bird, or a stained glass bird. Maybe he wants to help with the dishes?
Drawing a Day #4: The Hangover
In high school, Jared was what Midwesterners call, "an odd duck." He had long black hair and he wore a suit to school every day. He often carried a briefcase. The briefcase was like the Queen's purse- what does he keep inside of it?
One evening, I went with my dad to his BBS club meeting at Pizza Hut. (If you don't know what a BBS club was, look it up. I don't have time to educate the world, here! Suffice to say that my dad and his friends invented the internet in the private meeting room at Pizza Hut in 1988. [You always wondered what went on in that private meeting room at Pizza Hut, didn't you?]) I was just digging into my Veggie Delight Personal Pan Pizza, sitting at the long table with fifteen or so sexless teenaged computer geeks, plus my dad, (because he was cool like that,) when in walked Jared, with his three piece suit and his black pony tale and his briefcase. There was murmuring. He was not normally a part of this group. Also, he was late. Jared set his briefcase down in the middle of the table, opened it up, and took out a giant rubber squid and laid it in the middle, amongst the pitchers of root beer. A giant, translucent, rubber squid. And then he sat down and acted like nothing unusual had happened.
So that's what he kept in the briefcase.
This story is neither here nor there, except that today's drawing is a portrait of Jared. A very, very, very hungover Jared. He put a picture of his hungover self on the Facebooks on New Year's Day, and I drew this from that.
I exaggerated the awfulness a bit. In real life, I believe Jared (like most humans) has a symmetrical face.
A Drawing A Day #3: Bodkay in a Little Suitcase
Bodkay the Cat died in July. The last photo of him healthy was of him sleeping in a little suitcase. I drew this from the photo.
When he isn't orange, he doesn't quite look like Bodkay- but I'm still happy with how the drawing turned out.
A Drawing A Day #2: Forest Floor, Trees
A Drawing a Day for 2016- Drawing #1
I don't know if I can really do this, but I would like to draw a picture every day in 2016. And post them here. Even if they are terrible.
I've had some experiences and conversations this year that have made me think I should do this.
1. I know someone who is friends with an artist who just died, and right before he died (when he was sick) he said, "My only regret in life is that I did not create more art."
2. My coloring book is still selling copies. With my other books, after over a month, people just stopped buying them. It was over. (Although Exhaust(ed) sometimes has little resurgences, but it's complicated.) And what is a coloring book? Pretty much just a bunch of drawings. So if I drew every day, I could take the best drawings and make them into coloring books.
3. I hurt my ankle back in September, and I'm not supposed to walk too much. I'm supposed to stay off of it as much as possible. So I thought that, instead of walking or running for fitness, I could draw and increase my skills in that area. And concentrate on healing that *ankle!
4. I've been following an artist on Facebook as she did a month of "a drawing a day," and it was fascinating. I loved looking at her drawings. I didn't even necessarily think they were good art (which is why I'm not saying her name) but the experience was fascinating. She wrote about the drawings, too, and why she drew them and stuff. I still look at her feed every day. So, maybe you would like looking at my drawings in the same why that I like looking at other people's? Or not. But it will be here, either way.
5. Meditation is good for your brain, and when I draw, I do go into that deep concentration, sometimes. I would like to increase my ability to do that, and increase my inner calm. And increase my ability to draw!
Here's drawing #1:
It's supposed to be a close up of a cedar tree. I don't know if it really looks like that? It was an interesting experiment in negative space. BAH teased me that I was, "wasting ink." He gave me the sketch book for Christmas, by the way. I love it! Thanks, BAH!
*More about what exciting things I've learned from my ankle in a future post!
I've had some experiences and conversations this year that have made me think I should do this.
1. I know someone who is friends with an artist who just died, and right before he died (when he was sick) he said, "My only regret in life is that I did not create more art."
2. My coloring book is still selling copies. With my other books, after over a month, people just stopped buying them. It was over. (Although Exhaust(ed) sometimes has little resurgences, but it's complicated.) And what is a coloring book? Pretty much just a bunch of drawings. So if I drew every day, I could take the best drawings and make them into coloring books.
3. I hurt my ankle back in September, and I'm not supposed to walk too much. I'm supposed to stay off of it as much as possible. So I thought that, instead of walking or running for fitness, I could draw and increase my skills in that area. And concentrate on healing that *ankle!
4. I've been following an artist on Facebook as she did a month of "a drawing a day," and it was fascinating. I loved looking at her drawings. I didn't even necessarily think they were good art (which is why I'm not saying her name) but the experience was fascinating. She wrote about the drawings, too, and why she drew them and stuff. I still look at her feed every day. So, maybe you would like looking at my drawings in the same why that I like looking at other people's? Or not. But it will be here, either way.
5. Meditation is good for your brain, and when I draw, I do go into that deep concentration, sometimes. I would like to increase my ability to do that, and increase my inner calm. And increase my ability to draw!
Here's drawing #1:
It's supposed to be a close up of a cedar tree. I don't know if it really looks like that? It was an interesting experiment in negative space. BAH teased me that I was, "wasting ink." He gave me the sketch book for Christmas, by the way. I love it! Thanks, BAH!
*More about what exciting things I've learned from my ankle in a future post!
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