Painting pumpkins in the afternoon ...

 

Drawing in red yarn

Happy Mother’s Day!

A big giant cheer from all of the sons and daughters in the world ... Happy Mother’s Day!

Celebrate Earth Day with my daughter

 Her drawings and collages are an amazing collection of ideas and thoughts about taking care of our very special planet Earth...

Saturday morning ballet class sketching time

Studio A in Pleasant Hill, CA, ballet classes and time for drawing young ballerinas...

Wet and rainy Sunday afternoon, Dad and daughter painting time, new sliding door panels for laundry room storage

First a pencil sketch, then Sharpie black outlines and then color infill...

MORI - Forest or woods in Japanese

That is a sea otter in the water, catching fish for lunch...

Saturday morning ballet lessons ... First time ...

A first time for me.  My daughter took her first ballet lesson on a Saturday morning.  I tried to watch and capture some of the many scenes...

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

John Berger

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

 (Edgar Degas)

Dad and Daughter drawing times

We will probably end up drawing the world together on our future journeys around the world...She has an amber eye for detail and a knack for keen observation, and a responsive hand eye connection...

Dad and daughter sketching and drawing on a sunny Saturday morning...