Portrait #2 - Dad

Today is my Dad's birthday. Happy Birthday Dad! Since this month I am focusing on portraits, I decided to do one of Dad. I am also amused by the side eye lately, and this portrait and the picture I worked from went well with that theme.

Dan Tyer "Dad"
Family Portraits Series
J.James 040211
Water color pencil, pencil, on Cold Press Watercolor
copyright 2011

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Portrait #1 - Rose

Betty White - "Rose"
Golden Girls Side Eye Series
ATC
Watercolor pencil & pencil on Cold Press Watercolor Paper
J.James
copyright 2011

ATC Portrait #1 Betty White Side Eye

My first portrait of the month. It's supposed to be Betty White side eyes...but it doesn't really look like her...It looks more like the lady from Designing Women, and no I don't remember her name the character's name nor the actress's name.

It was kind of weird drawing in pencil after a month of still life drawings in pen. The drawing isn't bad, it just doesn't look like her to me. Still thinking about adding color.

Still Life #19

Picture for still Life #19. Pedometer

Still Life #32--Bonus Still Life!

Present Rubber Duckie...also a gift from Isaiah to Gracie for her birthday.
This has been an interesting challenge. I didn't do as well as I wanted to with the discipline of doing them everyday. But I did manage to get them all done. 32 still life drawings in a month is pretty good though.
This one is the bonus drawing, I wanted to have 31 drawings in this journal and since the first still life was done on a loose watercolor journal page...I did another one.
Next month I am going to do portraits. Probably ATC size...so that I can get them done...and it's not too daunting.

Still Life #31

Birthday cake rubber duckie. Isaiah got these for Gracie for her birthday. They are surprizingly hard to draw.

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Still Life #30

Isaiah's word builder magnet jet.

Still Life #29

The handle to the back massager that we have...ended up starting too big..so that's all that would fit on the page. But I do like how it turned out.

Still Life #28

This is my latest drawing. It is the same car from #27. So now I am caught up. This has been an interesting challenge. But it got a little boring after a while. It is also harder for me to find time to sit down and do a good rendering because I am either taking care of children, or I am trying to get more steps in and get more of a workout in.

Still Life #27

This is another of Isaiah's hotwheels. I really kind of like drawing hotwheels. They are fun. I would like to draw some of these with colored pencils if I can find some time to sit and do them.

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Still Life #26

The same car as #25 but a different angle. This time I was able to keep Isaiah from actually picking up the car.

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Still Life #25

These are the make up drawings for the ones I didn't do for the last couple of days. Not so good on the discipline front.

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Still Life #24

This is a drawing of the pens that I have been using to do all of these drawings. I did drain one of these completely in the process of doing this month of still life drawings.

Still Life #23

A quick bad drawing of Micah's phone. I was really tired.

Still Life #22

Anyone guess what this is? It didn't really translate well in just pen...would be an awesome and very challenging painting or colored pencil drawing. It's a blown glass paper weight that Micah got from his grandfather for Christmas one year. It's really cool. Clear, white, and blue glasses.

Still Life #21

Gracie's pink elephant chewy toy. She loves this thing. It also has a rattle in it. She will take her pacifier out just to chew on this elephant...now that is love!

Still Life #20

Ink drawing of the new water bottles we got last week.

Still Life #19

I am way behind updating the blog. Luckily I am not that far behind on all of the actual drawings.

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