Time for art!
March 28, 2012It is also time to move my junior high pictures away from the top of the page, where they are hurting everyone. Or me. They're hurting me.
Here's some stuff I made! I now have a Zazzle store, which features a couple of these, if you want to buy a print or a card. Or postage stamps!
I've been experimenting with my new brush pen, which is now the only thing I will ever use to sketch my cat. It perfectly captures her bonkers essence.
Here she's all pissy with me because I kept poking her with my pen. Which in my defense was to keep her from chewing on my sketchbook, which in her defense she was doing because I hadn't fed her. Ours is a complicated relationship.
Then she was enamored of a bird outside the window and I was enamored of her crazy eyeballs.
Once the cat was fed she stopped bugging me, so here is a typewriter! Typewriters do not chew on your sketchbook when you're trying to Create. In reality it's black, but that's no fun. This was also drawn with the brush pen. (Plus some watercolor.) That pen is the very best.
And then I sketched this, from some construction they're doing at my subway stop.
I tried to make a Real Watercolor of the above image, without using pen first, and caa-aarefully laying down layers of paint, going from light to dark, all that shit they tell you to do. And it sucked. Absolutely looked terrible and dead and boring. So then I scribbled this in my sketchbook and slapped some paint on it, and it's not perfect but I LIKE IT. I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, except maybe Only Do It If It's Fun.
Reader Comments (14)
This is amazing! I love your art. I want to buy that typewriter picture from you! PRINTS PRINTS PRINTS!
They really are great. I would consider buying a print of either.
That pen is most definitely the best, as are you. Your talent is extraordinary.
Are you familiar with spoonflower.com? You can design and sell your own fabric there. And honey, let me tell you, that typewriter is asking ... no ... BEGGING to be made into a print.
Off to buy something w/that typewriter! And yes, fabric for pillows or seat covers would be awesome.
There is something very Roald Dahl about that typewriter. And I mean that in the best possible way.
Love! I need to get back to watercolor - I did it a lot in college.
This is going to sound crazy but that typewriter reminds me of E.B. White. And although I have read every single thing he ever wrote, I didn't remember until I went to write this comment that he was a writer, not an artist, DUH.
So I guess this means that I think you draw the way E.B. White wrote, which is to say AWESOME.
Great artwork. A woman of many trades:)
"The child psychologist who thought she had all the answers to parenting until she became one herself."
I do love that subway picture. It just goes to show, doesn't it, that it is better to listen to your own heart and not the 'experts'.
I like this brush pen! And Izzy, either in real life or hand drawn. She's a good subject. The typewriter, that one really strikes a chord with me. Used to have one of those when I was growing up. My, how times have changed. I have enjoyed seeing all your sketches for the past few months. Keep it up!!
As you can see, I am getting my priorities back in order and visiting your blog regularly. I will try not to be so remiss in the future. ;)
Melissa
One time a friend, who saw me reading a book, said in all seriousness "you're really good at reading" (we were in our 40s when this conversation happened). I tell you that so you will understand the context when I tell you "Alice, you are really good at drawing". Seriously good at drawing.
Your kittycat pen and inks (well, brush pen, but same diff) are delightful!
They make me imagine a collection of illustrated essays like Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times." Only you are a stronger draughtsman. Though, to be fair to Thurber, he was mostly blind...
Anyway. I like your cat drawings. They please me.
hey Alice, you're not just a good writer, but also an artist. And oh, I love the classic typewriter, he,he.