Shodo ink and kanji practice

 

playing and exploring along and within the refreshingly freezing cold waters of Beaver Creek #calaverasbigtrees #watercolor

...playing and exploring along and within the refreshingly freezing cold waters of Beaver Creek #calaverasbigtrees #watercolor over ink sketch #dougwittnebel...

Inktober in October

I want to do Inktober but I cannot.  ...   ...   ...

An extended gaze and sketch of the Calder at the National Gallery East Wing

Pine Cone, Lake Tahoe, California

Mini sketch in Mendocino

Cowell Beach, Santa Cruz

...painted with Autodesk Ink on ipad Pro during the long weekend in Santa Cruz...

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)

From crayons to ink on paper

There is something still so magical about crayons...

It is fun to go back and try them again and again.  Now where is that box with the built-in sharpener?

design sketches for unbuilt project

a set of design sketches, red ink on yellow post-it notes, for an unbuilt project in California...

Rotunda building, napkin sketch

 

 

The beautiful Rotunda building in downtown Oakland, a historic landmark and great example of a restoration and transformation project.

KUBB, the game from the weekend of camping on Mount Tamalpais

KUBB is an outdoor or lawn game where the primary object is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing or tossing wooden batons.  Today's version originated in Sweden, and the rules vary from country to country and from region to region, but the ultimate object of the game is to knock over the five kubbs on the opposing side line, and then knock the "king" over, before the opponent does, the nickname of the game is "Viking Chess." Games can last from five minutes to well over an hour or two. The game can be played on a variety of surfaces such as grass, asphalt, concrete, sand, snow, or ice.  Here are my sketches of the game in progress at the campground.

A napkin sketch that goes around the world...

 

A napkin sketch created for Art Gensler for use in an event held at CCA this week, the sketch was created by hand, and then scanned for digital use in printing on napkins...