Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Tracker



It's been amazingly busy around here but I did actually finish another drawing.  It's 11"x15" Graphite on D'Arches 140 lb hot press watercolor paper.   Unlike the figure studies I do at the life drawing sessions this drawing is very detailed and takes many hours with a fine point pencil.

There is a studio tour coming up next week and I've been trying to get ready for that.  It's amazing how messed up a studio can become when you are busy with a million other things.  It kind of sneaks up on you!  The next couple of days will be spent fixing that situation.

There is also an oil painting on my easel and it is progressing slowly.  Hopefully it will have progressed enough to use it as a demo during the studio tour.  I will post it here when it is finished.

Along with my artwork and work in the yard of our new house, we now have Kayaks which we have only used once so far but hope to use a lot more as the summer progresses.  The one time we have had the chance to use them we went out to the Hood Canal and paddled approx. five miles and saw about twelve bald eagles that were flying around above our heads.  The day was clowdy but the  water was calm and it didn't rain.  A great day kayaking! We also found out where a couple really good scuba site were located.  
Speaking of scuba diving we went on a dive a couple of weeks ago to Ed's Fault in Discovery bay.  The Viz wasn't very good but it was a great dive non-the-less.  All the usual kritters were seen along with Ling Cod, a variety of rock fish and some wonderful tube worms.  No Giant Pacific Octopi though. 

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