Old Sketchbook Sunday

I can't stand sitting around doing nothing so when our family went to the beach I decided to bring a shitty old notebook and broken-down brush pen along with me. I don't want to get sand in my current sketchbook and I thought it'd be nice to do quick sketched where nothing was too precious. I need practice anyway. Now it seems it's the perfect thing to carry with me anywhere I go since I'd much rather pass the time sketching than searching Twitter hoping to see that impeachment proceedings have begun.

Filthy Rose along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn

progress of sketch to large finished watercolor - images added as they are completed in stages... more like this

small, Medium, LARGE

"Begonia Baloney" 2017, 52" x 70" pen & ink and watercolor on paper

"Begonia Baloney" 2017, 52" x 70" pen & ink and watercolor on paper

  1. buy flowers from place down the street
  2. draw flowers in sketchbook
  3. Do it some more
  4. draw larger version on 22" x 30" paper and watercolor it
  5. unroll a 80" x 55" sheet of watercolor paper from a roll
  6. staple it to the wall and soak it with water
  7. let it dry so it stretches out and will now lie flat
  8. sketch flowers on the huge sheet of paper in pencil
  9. draw over pencil lines in ink
  10. erase pencil lines
  11. draw thicker ink lines over previously inked lines
  12. watercolor once ink is nice and dry
  13. wonder why I just spent so much time and money doing that
  14. remind myself that it's way cool looking
  15. sell for a shit-ton of dollars
  16. wake up from lovely dream about selling art (see 15)
  17. repeat

more like this...